December 2008 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

Using ReCaptcha with Asp.Net MVC

For all the debate regarding if Captcha's are a good thing or a bad thing one thing is certain (in my book). If you do not have some way to stop spam-bots your site will become overridden with junk in a hurry. In an effort to reduce the amount of...

Published 12-02-2008 8:09 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: asp.net, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

Adding MSTest results (.trx) files to your TeamCity build results

As I am building out our CI environment with TeamCity (man, this is a great product) I finally had to tackle something that I have been putting off for the past few weeks. Adding the tests results to TeamCity from our various components which use...

Published 12-20-2008 9:39 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development Tools TeamCity

Teaching someone to test using an Isolation Framework

Part of my job at work is to teach and mentor other developers on our team. Right now I am in the process of teaching two of our developers how to create unit tests (notice I did NOT say integration tests because most anyone can do those). We are also...

Published 12-30-2008 11:21 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Agile, TDD, Rhino Mocks, Opinion, HowTo

Changing Terms from Mocking Framework to Isolation Framework

The other day on Twitter Roy Osherove made the statement that he was teaching a class on TDD and he was showing how to use the various Isolation Frameworks. When I read this I had to ask if he talking about Mocking frameworks when he said Isolation frameworks...

Published 12-09-2008 7:14 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Rhino Mocks, Opinion, Moq

[PSA] Using the Code Behind in MVC causes blindness

Ok, maybe the title to this post was a little misleading, there have been no studies that actually prove that one way or another if will actually go blind using a CodeBehind, but there have been studies (ok, may just suggestions) that you should NOT use...

Published 12-12-2008 7:38 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Best Practice, ASP.Net MVC

ReSharper 4.5 coming out soon

Looks like everyone's favorite productivity tool for .net development is getting a upgrade. I got an email the other day from JetBrains saying that v4.5 should be out in Q1 of 2009 and that public beta's should be ready by end of this year. Highlights...

Published 12-21-2008 1:56 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development Tools, ReSharper

Another great gift from Red Gate

Every year Red-Gate sends all for their 'Friends of Red-Gate' a great Christmas basket, this year was no exception. You may be asking 'What is a Friend of Red-Gate '. This is a great program they started a while back to reach out to the...

Published 12-12-2008 8:24 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out

Challenge everything, accept nothing at face value, only then will we learn

Today I posted a comment to one of my other blog posts that read: I forgot about the blue bible of DDD. Since Eric said it, it must be gospel. This comment was in response to another comment about the Eric Evans DDD book. I know that my comment was a...

Published 12-24-2008 10:54 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion

Oxite, an example on how NOT to put code on internet

***** UPDATE ***** In fairness it appears that I had downloaded the latest build, not the ‘official’ release. So I hear the release does NOT have this issue, only the latest drop. ***** END UPDATE ***** Today I had a few minutes so I thought I would...

Published 12-13-2008 4:21 PM by Derik Whittaker

Pulling all instances for a base type out of StructureMap

*** There may be a better way to do this with StructureMap, but this is the way I was able to get this to work *** Today I decided I wanted to move all my route mapping for Dimecasts out of the Global.asax file and into each of the various Controllers...

Published 12-05-2008 7:31 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, StructureMap, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

Now referring to Interfaces as Contracts in code and conversation

I am just throwing this out there and am looking for feedback. The other day when I was setting up the structure for a project at work I went to create a folder called interfaces (this is an API style project and this was going to hold all the public...

Published 12-23-2008 2:05 PM by Derik Whittaker

An Apple success (in my book) with the iPhone and iTunes

Today my iPhone took a crap. I am not real sure what the issue was but all I know is it went to a white screen and I could not do anything about it. I was hoping that simply plugging it into the PC would solve the issue, but it did not. Because I did...

Published 12-23-2008 8:07 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion

StructureMap and Loaded Plugins Gotcha

One of the really great things about the latest release of StructureMap is that I do not need to register objects by default if they follow a standard convention (i.e. if I want to register a controller called ‘AuthorController’ and accessed via ‘AuthorController...

Published 12-18-2008 8:33 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Agile, .Net, StructureMap, ASP.Net MVC

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