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If you're following true test driven development, you should be writing tests before you write the code. By definition you only write th...

In my last post, I highlighted some of the test-driven benefits of using the InternalsVisbleTo attribute . In keeping with the trend of TDD ...

Yesterday I met a cashier who needed to use a calculator when I gave him $20.35 for a $10.34 item. Experiences like this are terrifying, and...

...or how to have all the great benefits of clean code and 100% code coverage too. Although the .NET 2.0 Runtime has been out for quite so...

Every so often, I pick up my copy of Jeffrey Richter's CLR via C# which provides a great low level look at the .NET Framework intrinsic...

I love the fact that .NET makes it profoundly easy to write Windows Services. Most of the low level details have been abstracted away, and w...

Recently, a question came my way about filtering URLs that contain fragment-identifiers. A fragment-identifier goes by many different names ...

I've started playing with Notepad++ over the last year, and really liking it. If you've been living under a rock, its an opensource...

I've been writing user interface tests for my current web project using Selenium. I really dig the fact that it uses JavaScript to manip...

In seems that in my circles that out of all the design patterns in the gang of four , the Visitor pattern is often seen as confusing and im...

After spending a few hours debugging HitBox page attributes by using "View Source" and digging through the HTML markup, I whipped ...

When I learned that Google had an Outlook Sync feature for Google Calendar, I was quick to download and experiment with it. While I was able...

I recently wrote a simple windows service that hosted batch files and other applications within a service process. I found some great stuff ...

Over the Christmas break, I started a series of posts about Visual Studio templates. I did some additional work, but never posted that infor...

As per my previous post, this exercise would probably be much easier if I used the Guidance Automation Toolkit, but in the spirit of Twelve ...

Microsoft's done a fairly good job in packaging for Visual Studio templates. Simply: Create an xml file that adheres to the Visual ...

As part of my twelve-days-of-code, I'm tackling a set of small projects geared towards simple project automation. I've discovered in...

So I was started into my foray of the Twelve Days of Code, focusing on a "Software Automation" theme. First stop, "Visual Stu...

One of the things I always have enjoyed over Christmas holidays is finding a few hours here and there for myself to explore new technolgies ...