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Still in the topic of performance, I'll throw a little freebie. Visual Studio seems to take an inordinate amount of time to open .aspx files for the first time. I noticed that the status bar read "Initializing toolbox..." for a long time. I'm mentioning .aspx but it really applies to...
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For a few weeks now, every time I try to logoff from my home banking website something bad happens. See screenshot below. (screenshot eaten by backup failure.) Firebug opens unexpectedly There's a frigging debugger; statement in the live production site The logoff process hangs until I press F8 in...
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Remember one recent post when I talked about the Code Kata that I attended? Well, Micah prepared a screencast version of that Kata and that video is now available. It's a short screencast (14') and even if Ruby is not your cup of tea, it's interesting to watch BDD being practiced. Langston's...
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Last night I had the opportunity to do my 'Taking your tests to the next level with Mocks' session to the TriNug user group. I would first like to say thanks to Doug Wilson and his entire group. They had a great turn out (45ish people) and they asked a ton of great questions. To kick off the...
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Wow, that took a long time to be published, but here it is. This video was recorded during the October's meeting of Chicago ALT.NET that happened almost just about a whole month ago. The video shows Josh Heyse demonstrating and explaining the works of the AOP framework called Core. What the video...
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I think that any developer that creates customer-facing software dreams that their users rave about and show affection for the product. But being users of software ourselves we know it's not easy to like any application that much. There are usually so many other applications vying for our love, and...
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I started playing with NHaml lately for sheer curiosity. It comes with MVCContrib and that's what I've been using to explore it. I'm not completely on board yet that you'll want to write all your views, for all kinds of application scenarios using NHaml. I know someone will probably jump...
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I just came back from the first meeting of the Software Craftsmanship Group . Tonight Micah Martin talked about Code Kata but added an extra facet to it. Micah proposes that, although practicing the Katas by yourself, in your spare time, is valuable, presenting your routine to an audience can deliver...
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Today started off in a bad, bad way. Because of some issues I had earlier in the week with my source control repository (SCR) I was doing a ton of work offline. Today I was able to regain access to my SCR I decided to do a full get. I was fully expecting SourceOffSite (crappy overlay tool on top of VSS...
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Don't you hate when tools try to promote themselves in your work, especially if you paid for them? Last night I was noavigatin around in Reflector when I stoped by the embedded resource named System.Data.Odbc.OdbcMetaData.xml (in System.Data.dll 2.0). What I saw was both familiar and a little aggravating...
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After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.
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I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.
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Turning the table So here I am, the guy often in charge of assisting new developers get up to speed with my designs and code, facing the diametrically opposite situation. Like many other developers, I have changed jobs more times than I'd like to. I love the chance to learn from a new industry or...
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One thing I like to do when I am using a IoC (Inversion of Control) container is to create simple test that ensure that my objects have been wired up correctly and can be created via the IoC container. I know this may seem like overkill, but I feel that by having my IoC bindings covered by tests I am...
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Right after I mildly complained about the lack of thoughtful orientation on a new job, I was pleasantly surpirsed with this lovely schedule for my first week at the new place. Just wanted to share that with you. There's hope for our world.