Jim Shore, one of authors of NUnitAsp, was going to be joining me on the upcoming Webcast for a cameo role to answer questions and add to the discussion.  Unfortunately Jim's travel schedule was going to place him aboard an airplane about 20 minutes into the Webcast so it was a no go! :-)  He is very enthusiastic about being involved...

Thycotic has recently engaged on a consulting project that is completely VB.NET.  This is not our usual (C#) stomping ground so there are plenty of opportunities for us to learn new things and make sure that we steer clear of the religious arguments!  I have been developing primarily in C-style languages for most of my...

I will be doing my first MSDN Webcast on Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 1pm.  The session is only an hour so it will be mostly an intro to TDD in ASP.NET with some good pointers on NUnitAsp and how to piece it all together. There will also be a nice transition from TDD principles to UI test driving to the Thycotic.TddStarterKit which makes...

The Mid-Atlantic Code Camp was an enormous success as everyone already agreed.  The event featured two presentations from Thycotic for which slides and code are now available. We also released two new free products at the Code Camp: Thycotic.TddStarterKit Thycotic.DatabaseScripter Please take a look at these products and send us your...

Jeff Schoolcraft, a Senior Consultant with Thycotic Software Ltd, will be speaking on "Regular Expressions - Theory and Practice" at the WinProTeam Rockville .NET User Group meeting tonight. Jeff has recently caused some debate in the community with industry personalities such as Randall L. Schwartz, Darren Neimke and Steven Smith weighing in...

This weekend we purchased a condo in the Washington DC area and I passed the Microsoft 70-320 exam ("Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework").  The natural question for any techie then would be: which was harder? Let's weigh up the contenders: DC House Purchase...

Andrew Duthie (the Mid-Atlantic Microsoft .NET Developer Evangelist) mentions that Code Camp will be coming to the DC area in May.  Stay posted for details of this full day FREE technology fest with lots of great technical content from the local community.  This promises to be a local event that you don't want to miss...

Jeff talks about some of our new ideas and options for improving the old "Ultimate Pair Programming Setup".  Some of the obstacles we are trying to overcome are: VNC lag (why is VNC so slow on a local network?) VNC disconnects Single workstation to ensure complete focus on current task No access to email or IM should force us to take more...

Blog spam sucks but being hosted on weblogs.asp.net doesn't leave a lot of options at the moment.  Blog spam could seen as a personal attack on your good nature and an attempt to mess with your small expression outlet to the rest of the world?  Wiki spam on the company wiki however, is outright war! :-) Thanks to Jeff...

A new project for Thycotic requires major enhancements to a legacy application.  There are no existing tests.  Where do we begin? This is the first post in a new blog series on the issues as they are tackled in this project.  The usual advice you receive in this situation is: Don't write all the missing...

Today we came across a little quirk that is worth sharing. Big thanks to Bob Flanders and Jeff Schoolcraft for help in figuring out the quirk. The Rules: Prize (a Thycotic keyring light) to be mailed to the first comment with the correct answer(s) on this blog post with valid contact information. My definition of the problem is the...

The local DC and surrounding area .NET community leaders came together last night courtesy of Microsoft's local Developer Community Champion, Geoff Snowman and our new Developer Evangelist, Andrew Duthie. Amongst all the wonderful people I met for the first time at the event was Darrell Norton whose TDD interest was especially...

Continued from day one. On the second and final day of Euruko 2005, the European Ruby Conference began at about ten o’clock. Steve Purcell, Mocking Objects with RMock Steve Purcell, who by the way was the first speaker that said he is a Rails user, presented an implementation of mock objects done by him. Mock objects are a technique for...

Continued from day one. On the second and final day of Euruko 2005, the European Ruby Conference began at about ten o’clock. Steve Purcell, Mocking Objects with RMock Steve Purcell, who by the way was the first speaker that said he is a Rails user, presented an implementation of mock objects done by him. Mock objects are a technique for...

Jim Shore, one of authors of NUnitAsp, was going to be joining me on the upcoming Webcast for a cameo role to answer questions and add to the discussion.  Unfortunately Jim's travel schedule was going to place him aboard an airplane about 20 minutes into the Webcast so it was a no go! :-)  He is very enthusiastic about being involved...