Rinat Abdullin recently posted about Mighty Moose and AutoTest.NET, two projects for continuous testing in the .NET/Mono space. My interest was immediately piqued, as I'm a huge fan of continuous testing. I've been using py.test to run my Python unit tests for years now, almost solely because …
This is second post in a series on my experiences starting to grow an MVVM Framework in .NET 1.1.
* Part I—Event Handlers * Part II—Properties * Part III —Properties Redux * Part IV—Unit Tests * Part V—Reflections and Regrets Full source code can be found in my Google Code …I've written 3 Google Chrome Extensions. The first two were for use at the Day Job, so I initially hosted them on an internal server. Eventually I moved them out to the Chrome Extension Gallery. There are a few benefits to doing this over self-hosting:
I'm enjoying using (and working on) Library Lookup, but I'm not entirely satisfied with the Page Action icons that pop up when searching, or when a book is found, or not found. In particular, I wanted a small animation while the search was ongoing, something like this: 
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Unfortunately, the animated …
At the Day Job, I usually work on a middleware component that contains a component that monitors the state of the system. A "health check", if you will. The component can be monitored automatically so notifications can be triggered on error conditions, or it can be used by a human …
At the Day Job, we use TypeMock Isolator as the isolation framework for the client portion of our flagship product. Historically we'd used version 3, but recently I had the opportunity to upgrade the code and build system to use the 2010 (or "version 6") edition.
I was …
The other day a coworker came to me with a Tricky Language Question. He and another chap had just finished working through a bug that had arisen due to a misunderstanding of C# constructor and field initialization order. The question?
In a derived class, when does field initialization occur, relative …
I'm always on the lookout for convenient tools for creating diagrams that can be used for software development. Balsamiq is my tool of choice for UI mockups - it's great for whipping up stylized interfaces in very little time.
Balsamiq does a great job of simplifying mockup creation, since it takes …
I'm about two weeks behind the wave, but this week I found the time to watch Rob Eisenberg's Mix 10 Build your own MVVM Framework talk (who says having the flu is all bad?).
It's well worth the hour and twenty minutes. If you haven't yet, grab a tea, fire …