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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 18 May 2012 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....This is a bad test, because what it does is ensuring that something does not works. I just finished implementing the session.Advaned.Defer support, and this test got my attention by failing the build. Bad test, you should be telling me when I broke..."
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A bad test
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Steve Smith | Blog | 17 May 2012 13:18
Steve Smith writes "....This month I presented on Common Design Patterns at two regional events. I’ve given this talk a few times before, and it continues to evolve. The first one was on 4 May at Stir Trek, as a replacement talk for a cancellation. I only..."
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Common Design Patterns Presentations
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 17 May 2012 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....Take a look at the following code: public static Task ParseAsync(IPartialDataAccess source, IPartialDataAccess seed, Stream output, IEnumerable<RdcNeed> needList)
{
return Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
foreach (var item in..."
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When using the Task Parallel Library, Wait() is a BAD warning sign
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman | 17 May 2012 00:05
Scott Hanselman writes "....Jeff Atwood wrote a post called Please Don't Learn to Code and Zed Shaw wrote a post called Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer. My wife lost her wedding ring down the drain. She freaked out and came running declaring that it..."
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Please Learn to Think about Abstractions
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Jon Galloway | Jon Galloway | 16 May 2012 22:11
Jon Galloway writes "....Literacy Imagine a world in which very few people knew how to read or write. You kept to certain parts of town because you couldn't read a map or a street sign. When you needed to sign a contract, you just asked what it said and had to take it on..."
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Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little)
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Rick Strahl | Rick Strahl's Web Log | 16 May 2012 16:44
Rick Strahl writes "....So I ran into an interesting behavior today as I deployed my first MVC 4 app tonight. I have a list form that has a filter drop down that allows selection of categories. This list is static and rarely changes so rather than loading these items from..."
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DropDownList and SelectListItem Array Item Updates in MVC
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Roy Osherove | ISerializable | 16 May 2012 12:29
Roy Osherove writes "....I’ve asked this on twitter, and here’s what I got:
System.IO.Abstractions (looks pretty deep)
SystemWrapper (I’m not crazy about the file system being used as a mock API)
Something older
I’d take a look at the..."
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File System Wrappers for Unit Testing in C#
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Roy Osherove | ISerializable | 16 May 2012 09:24
Roy Osherove writes "....In the NerdDinner project, there’s this amazing test (see the bottom, second one).
There are so many things wrong here:
What is exactly correct about these properties?
Many magic values
Multiple tests in a single test
if it fails,..."
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Test Driven Validation Logic with Extract & Override
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 16 May 2012 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....ReleaseCandidateTracker is a new RavenDB based application by Szymon Pobiega. I reviewed version 5f7e42e0fb1dea70e53bace63f3e18d95d2a62dd. At this point, I don’t know anything about this application, including what exactly it means, Release..."
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Reviewing RavenDB app: ReleaseCandidateTracker
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Roy Osherove | ISerializable | 15 May 2012 21:14
Roy Osherove writes "....I really like reading this code. I will look deeper into it this week.
Many of the “zen” ideas here speak to me on the unit test level.
..."
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Zen of python revisited with code samples
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