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How to set up a FitNesse server

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:20:30 GMT

The quirks of setting up a FitNesse server.

Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:16:07 GMT

Well, it is about time we (Tim, Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC book with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is framework going to be smashing success.

5 Tips for Better jQuery Cod

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:46:03 GMT

I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time.

NHibernate Profiler: A guided tour

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:01:31 GMT

Ayende provides an introduction to his upcoming tools for analyzing NHibernate usage.

Quote for October

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:01:09 GMT

A quote worth remembering!

Fluent hierarchical construction

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:57:53 GMT

Building a hierarchy of objects doesn't happen that often in code, but when it does, it can get pretty ugly. Most of the time, the hierarchy will come out of the database. Recently, we had a hierarchy that needed to be built straight in code. We had something like this going on:

Is it important to write good code?

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:31:11 GMT

Its not only important, its vital.

Blisteringly fast Integration Tests with NHibernate and SQLite

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Intergration tests can be slow and can be painful to run often. In this post I cover using SQLite with NHibernate, and automatically switching between SQLite and SQL Server

ALT.NET Podcast 11: jQuery in ASP.NET

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:16:03 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.

IServiceLocator a step toward IoC container / Service locator detente

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:46:04 GMT

Today we launched an exciting project on CodePlex, namely the Common Service Locator library. What is it? It's a shared interface that applications and frameworks can reference in order to leverage IoC containers / service location mechanisms without taking hard dependencies.

Introduction to NHibernate: What does NHibernate bring to the table

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A short screencast introduction to NHibernate: In this episode we will talk about what does NHibernate bring to the table

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

Leadership and Self Examination: The 3 Coaching Styles

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:54:13 GMT

3 G's: Great post, Great advice, Great guy

Ten tips to maximize the return on your TDD investment

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:28:54 GMT

Its definitely worth the time

TDD design trade-offs and junk food

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:26:20 GMT

From the article: "When I first started doing TDD, many of the new designs that came out of this practice seemed backwards and counterproductive at first. After all, I wound up with many more classes, lots of interfaces, and most interfaces had exactly one implementation."

C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation

Universal Guidelines for IoC Containers

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:30:40 GMT

... but no absolute rules.

NDepend 2.10 Released - Interactive Code Dependencies Graph

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:02 GMT

This is indistinguishable from magic!

Identifing Waste, the Lean Way

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:17 GMT

As mentioned in a previous blog post, waste elimination is usually the most obvious and least resistant way to improve value and flow in a product. So I'm just going to jump right into some of the waste factors that are usually easy to identify, evaluate, modify and sustain their solutions in software product development. Not going to cover all forms of waste, just the most common ones.

MSpec v0.2

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:02:22 GMT

It's been a while, but we've gotten several new things into Machine.Specifications (MSpec). I'm excited to finally release them for everyone to start playing with. You can grab the bits here. Let's talk about what's new though. Here's an example of a new context/spec:

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Community Reality Check: Is INETA a concrete life raft?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:49:18 GMT

As an attempt to continually improve my contributions to the community, I'm trying to determine the value I'm generating through the volunteering of my time. What, dear reader, would you say is INETA's place in today's ever changing world of .NET?

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

rules for spartan programmers : Using NDepend Query Techniques

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:23:41 GMT

Excellent content as always from the genius behind NDepend.