Roy Osherove is giving an hands-on TDD Masterclass in the UK, September 21-25. Roy is author of “The Art of Unit Testing” (http://www.artofunittesting.com/), a leading tdd & unit testing book; he maintains a blog at http://iserializable.com (which amoung other things has critiqued tests written by Microsoft for asp.net MVC – check out the testreviews category) [...]
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Roy Osherove is giving an hands-on TDD Masterclass in the UK, September 21-25
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Active engagement in the discussion of a user story
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We just had a sprint review meeting with Olly who is the technical architect. One thing I am impressed with is that he actively suggest different ways to achieve the value to the product owner. I seem to have an technical guy mindsent and usually I do not challange the business value of the user [...]
Sony VAIO NR38M drivers and utilities
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a refurbished vaio NR38M earlier 2 months ago. It is a nice laptop with good price and has Vista installed with lots of other programs. I wanted to use Windows 7 on it, and usually windows 7 performs better than Vista.
I can find all drivers, but it is very difficult to find a [...]
Change office 2007 product key
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged office 2007 on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have installed office 2007, but the product key was used too many times, and the office failed in activation. I received another product key, but was not sure if I could change it wihtout reinstalling it. A simple google search takes me to http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/archive/2006/12/12/Change-Office-2007-Product-Key.aspx. I tried and succeeded in changing the product key and [...]
Visual Studio project, CopyLocal: true
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I had an automated build failure on the test server. I spent half a day to fix the issue and discovered that someone changed the CopyLocal property of reference to false. Of course, if you reference a dll in GAC, you need to set it to false, so that you reference the dll in [...]
김창준님의 좀 더 나은 사회를 위한 몇 가지 방법 – 어쩌면 IT 기술을 사용해서
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 김창준 on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
마침 김창준님의 블로그 RSS를 구독하던 터라 김창준님의 presentation을 보게 되었습니다. 많은 생각을 하게 하는 presentation이였습니다. 먼저 presentation zen을 언급하셨는데, 저역시 이책을 읽고 이에 따라 prensetation을 하려고 애쓰던 중이라 약간 뜨끔했습니다. 하지만 창준님이 가지고 나오신 한장 짜리 슬라이드는 동영상으로는 눈에 잘 안들어 오더군요. 역시 슬라이드에는 그림이나 사진이 들어가야 제맛인게 아닐까요?^^
엥겔바르트와 Allan Kay. 개발자이지만 저도 잘 몰랐다는 [...]
Visual Studio Add-in: Recycle all IIS application pools on build done
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
related post: http://simplelifeuk.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/writing-a-visual-studionet-2003-add-in/
resources
http://www.koders.com/csharp/fidA05F9CFC9911DC901EC86C43DD8CAD4F82AE1CB0.aspx
Visual studio.net 2003 Automation Samples
This is my 2nd visual studio-in. What it does is to recycle all application pools in IIS to make sure GAC is refreshed with newly built dlls.
There were a few things to tweak. This is an add-in for visual studio 2003, so it may not be suitable for vs [...]
MSBUild task: Get the latest code from TFS and build
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Resource
TFS command-line help: http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2007/01/22/real-tfs-command-line-help.aspx
SDC Tasks: http://www.codeplex.com/sdctasks
remotely copy with user credential: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Miscellaneous/Q_21207420.html
xcopy help: http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm
This is a simple task, but it took some time for me to udnerstand, as MSBuild was a new thing to me.
First, Get the latest code from TFS is TFS task, not MSBUild task. So, you can use tf.exe command-line utility.
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual [...]
nested using staments
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love using statement for database access. It closes the connection automatically when all the codes within the using statment are executed. Recently I had to nest using staments for the project I was working on, and there were guys who thought it wasn’t elegant. The arguments were, first, they doubted if nesting using actually [...]
Environment specific web.config using appSettings file property
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As most companies do, you would have different environments such as INT (intergration), Staging, and Live servers. Web.config is really handy, but you cannot put environment specific settings there, because the same file is deployed across all environments.
This troubleed me and my company (which is Totaljobs) for a while and I came across this file [...]
