Unit testing in .Net
Unit Testing in .NET Projects by Jay Flowers and Andrew Stopford -- Now is a pretty exciting time for unit testing in .NET. Tremendous progress is being made on several fronts: IDE integration, process integration, and new test fixtures. Jay Flowers and Andrew Stopford explain how to use Visual Studio's new integrated unit testing, as well as the NUnit and MbUnit testing frameworks.
James Duncan Davidson on how to build software
My view of building an application is that you control the horizontal and vertical and version everything so that you can totally rebuild, from source, an application (or a book or whatever you're working on) on demand at any time. Processes that require everyone to be working in the same workspace make me break out in hives. Non-repeatability pisses me off. Manual decision making during a build is a non-starter. And did I mention that it has to be repeatable every single time? And it always has to be buildable on your own laptop no matter where in the world you happen to be. I mean it.
New blog
Welcome to the new blog. I have been using blogger, and while I do like it pretty well I thought it would be fun to host my own. It may end up being more of a headache than it is worth though - now I need to start thinking about things like backups, etc. The main part of my website is all in subversion, so it gets backed up (at least replicated) to several other machines regularly. Might have to do something like that for this after I get it all figured out.
I think the first thing I might talk about is how I got this all set up. I've wanted to run my own site for a while, but I've always been too stingy to spend any money on what is essentially a hobby. So here's what the current setup looks like. I have roadrunner coming into the house. That hooks up to the cable modem, and then to a WatchGuard SoHo firewall. I bought the firewall from Landmark when they closed the Austin office. It has a nice feature - it supports 'DynDNS', which is a web service that allows me to have a named internet address even though I don't have a static IP address. What that all means is that rather than having a measly 15 MB of space at tripod, I now have something like 20 GB. Out in the garage, in the heat, is a Dell 420 hooked up to that firewall. Seems to be working well so far.
Well, a bit late. I'm off to bed now.