I didn’t recognise you it’s been so long.
I finally got the urge and the patience to fire up my editor and write a post for this long neglected weblog.
How are you all doing? good I hope?
Ok so I may have been prompted to write by a link from Julian over at ProWorkflow but I’m here [...]
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Wellington Geek Lunch
So today we managed to get the Wellington Geek Lunches off the ground. The enthusiasm was great, hopefully we can convert it into long term stickability*. We’re trying to decide on a decent wellington venue for the meetings but we’ve agreed to try a meeting room next week (if anyone has a suitable, easy access [...]
Mocking 101
Last night I held my first presentation for the Wellington .net user group, it went down really well and I think I managed to keep everyone’s attention for the 50 minutes or so i rambled on. It was really encouraging to see so many people there as mocking and unit testing still feel alt.net to [...]
Come show me some love
I’ll be talking at the Wellington Dot Net User group on Wednesday. I’ll try and make the talk as exciting as possible, it’s on mocking and why it’s useful.
http://dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=1&mid=388&ctl=Detail&xmid=3520&xmfid=2
Come along if you’re in the region.
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war stories
I’ve roped myself into giving a talk on mocking and frameworks, going to cover Rhino.Mocks, Typemock and touch on Moq, but I thought I’d put a call out for anyone who has any war stories around mocking that I can work in. good or bad, I don’t want to just present a one-sided argument. so [...]
NSpecify => RSpec… well closer anyway
So as I’ve been doing some Ruby+Rails work recently, I’ve become very enamoured of Rspec, it’s ability to turn plain text tests into runable tests is awesome.
I love that I can run this as an automated test:
Story: News Page
As a visitor
I Want to go to the news site
So that I can keep up with all [...]
kicking and screaming
Sometimes change can be very difficult, most peoples instinct is to stay with the status quo and not disrupt the flow, however there are imperative changes that must happen on any software teams and fighting them is like taking a proverbial piss in the wind.
Right now I’m trying to help people around me facilitate change, [...]
NSpecify Nunit add-in fix for InitializeFunctionality methods
Well I still exist!
Recently I’ve been moving more and more into understanding how a specification test should be written using NSpecify a really nice framework for running tests.
Also I’ve been seriously involved in getting the teams build process up and running in a much more meaningful form, as such I’ve noticed a bug in the [...]
Testing out marsedit
I’m trying to find a nice weblog editor for the mac and MarsEdit seems to be the final one to test after Ecto fails to post to subtext properly. I’ll add an image too:
Yep that’s me trying to avoid the camera at the wellington agile bar camp last week
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Settling on a rhythm
Well I know, I missed a post on Friday, I’m sure someone was holding out for it but it never came.
Truth is I realised that a post a day is probably unrealistic and instead I’m just going to aim for at least a post a week, hopefully more.
However I still have to find things to [...]