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Roy Osherove

Roy Osherove's blog provides a variety of development topics with a focus on Agile development, unit testing, hardcore .NET topics (Winforms, threading, reflection, regular expressions) and more. The blog has been online for over 5 years and gets an average 47,000 unique views per month.
Roy's also shares insights from his book on unit testing: "The Art Of Unit Testing". More info at : http://the.artofunittesting.com/


ISerializable | 02 Nov 2008 19:57

Cute picture of my sonSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....My son, Itamar,  playing invisible Tennis..."
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ISerializable | 02 Nov 2008 12:57

Isolator Feature Focus: Faking CollectionsSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....Another cool feature in Isolator is the ability to fake values that will be returned from custom collections (anything that inherits from IEnumerable as long as it is not in mscorlib - for example - sharepoint lists). With the new version you can..."
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ISerializable | 02 Nov 2008 12:25

Isolator Feature Focus: Duck Typing and Isolate.SwapSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....Typemock Isolator 5.1.1 has been released, and this release brings with it some awesome (seriously) features that are unique fro any other framework I've seen. a good overview of features can be found here. The Isolator Swap feature allows..."
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ISerializable | 28 Oct 2008 22:04

PDC 2008 VideosSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....I’m not at PDC, and you may not be either. but the session videos are starting to become available. Go to the channel 9 PDC videos sections and look for sessions with the graphic: Sessions I’ve set myself to watch: ASP.NET 4.0 roadmap..."
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ISerializable | 23 Oct 2008 08:06

StackOVerflow NotifierSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....Dror Helper just created a utility that tracks your StackOverflow ranking. SO, if you're an ego freak, go get it...."
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ISerializable | 15 Oct 2008 13:11

Use Reflection to find Methods that implement explicit interfacesSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....update: added a check for IsPrivate based on the comments. so I won't forget: here's how you can iterate over a type definition's methods and see if one of them is an explicit intreface definition:   foreach (var info in..."
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ISerializable | 12 Oct 2008 21:57

SharpMock 0.1 ?Subscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....James, I would love to see you take the idea of “SharpMock” to the next level. If not anything else, it would be an interesting challenge to write about. James took PostSharp and started looking at the possibility of intercepting static method..."
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ISerializable | 11 Oct 2008 21:15

Isolator feature focus – Advanced Debugger Support for fakesSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....Two features that Typemock Isolator has make the debugging experience with it very different than any other isolation framework: 1) Highlight fake method during debugging   When stepping into a method that is being faked by the test,..."
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ISerializable | 11 Oct 2008 20:46

Art Of Unit Testing – Book done, Wiki readySubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....I’m happy to report that my book has finally hit the “last review” stone, which means all chapters are done and the book should be in book stores around jan-feb 2009. If you’d like to read the E-Book version right now(PDF) you can purchase that..."
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ISerializable | 06 Oct 2008 15:55

Graphic Designer Wanted (and found)Subscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....Update: We have already found a designer. Thanks for sending all those emails! We are looking for a part\full time graphics designer. the initial need is to create great icons, design logos and such. If that person also has web design skills, all..."
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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @addys GOOD LUCK !!! 1 day ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @yosit nope. gb completely turned me off. Looks like I'm not the only one who won't be there BTW 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) If anyone knows anyone who can get me into speaking at teched japan, Australia or africa, let me know! 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @serialseb I was spending time with my wife. sorry. 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @yosit believe me, I tried to speak there. 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) FYI: Top breakout session at TechEd EMea was "Understanding Test Driven Development" Times are a-changin! 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) what an amazing week! I've made it to top breakout session at TechEd, as well as 3rd and fourth. Thanks for those who filled evals! 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @dangilkerson Typemock Isolator has a free open-source license. have you looked at this option? 5 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @serialseb I repleied. didn't you get it? 6 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @migueldeicaza just showing you the other side of the coin - all sites seem to be one sided. 6 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @migueldeicaza via @BryanLAS http://www.themiddleeastnow.com/ifamericansknew.html 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @migueldeicaza since both sides are to blame why are most sites one sided? 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @migueldeicaza problem is these sites usually depict a mostly one-sided view of things. and it distorts reality. which is harsh. 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @migueldeicaza however, it is important that sites like this exist. the more knowledge the better. just make it complete. 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @migueldeicaza that site does not include "number of attempted car\bus\restaurant bombings on the other's land" come live here and talk. 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @21apps I saw a vid cam in almost all of them, so I think so. 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) going to have a repeat session of my "Understanding TDD" last slot tomorrow 7 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) if you were at my Deep Reflection talk today and didn't give evals, please do 8 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @jeremydmiller "Push button" is the opposite of "fluent"? makes sense. in a way. 9 days ago from twhirl


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @adambird ah. well. just becuase you can easily fake stuff does not mean you won't want a framework to save you typing to do it 9 days ago from twhirl