Many, myself included, have been eagerly awaiting the release of the ReSharper Runner of Machine.Specification (MSpec) for ReSharper 6. I’m glad to announce that this is now available, which is the result of a team-effort between Victor Kropp , Chris Nicola , myself and of course Alexander Gross...
When you encounter a bug, do you first write a failing test before fixing it? You should. But the vast majority of us sometimes do not. External pressure (read Customer, Teammates or Management) moves us in the opposite direction. Everything we’ve learnt about unit testing and good software practices...
For the last couple of months, I have been working on Android platform as part of Software Engineering course(more on that later, i hope). Even though there are a lot of things I don’t like about android (like XML layouts and the ids of widgets being held in some other class etc but perhaps this is just...
The blogosphere has gone a bit crazy the last few days with posts responding to Joel Spolsky’s latest article about "The Duct Tape Programmer" . Bloggers everywhere are tossing their two cents in and saying what parts of Joel's post was good and what wasn't good. Once noticeable trend...
Joel , in his inimitable way, posted the flame bait of all flame bait posts yesterday , explaining the role of the Duct Tape Programmer. To my surprise, the Twitterverse started to reverberate with commentary, but weirdly, almost all of it was very negative about the post, many claiming that Joel was...