I couldn’t have said it better myself. This is an old topic for Jay and I have to credit him for bringing continuous integration into my own life many many years ago. Back in November he wrote a post about builds “Building Software Is Easy“. He captures the main point, it’s all too often ignored [...]
Mar 192009
Mar 192009
I’ve been reviewing a lot of blog sites lately reguarding testing and unit test practices. One I ran across this morning entitled “Extract and Override refactoring techinque” caught my eye on Taswar Bhatti’s Blog. Don’t get me wrong here, I tried to read this objectively and understand where he was coming from; however, I am [...]
Mar 182009
This is the one, the only, the quintessential rule to programming. AKA, the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid) is, to me, words to live by. From the implementation of a simple class to the design of a complex application you constantly have to keep this in the forefront of your mind. Far too often I [...]
Mar 182009
Well it’s only been a week since go-live and things are progressing. Not as fast as I’d like, but good enough. I’d thought I’d give a roadmap of things to come. Sections comming soon: – Coding – Building – Testing These should be obvious. The not-so-obvious are projects to come. Here they are: – CSBuild [...]
Mar 182009
Found an interesting post over on ISerializable – Roy Osherove’s Blog that outlines a few of the things that should be considered when designing software component interfaces. To re-summarize and add my own two cents worth here they are in my own order of importance. Resilience – (the best single-word description I can come up with) [...]
Mar 122009
Not that I personally feel strongly about this, but some like to have a help file to browse. I am much more partial to C# and test-cases as documentation; however, this was really quick effort thanks to Dave Sexton’s work on DocProject. It greatly simplified the entire help-building process into something easy and repeatable thanks [...]
Mar 112009
QuickLog is an EXTREMELY basic implementation of a logging API. Easy to extend by implementation of an event but sufficient to use by itself for some needs. It’s own API can be used directly or all calls to System.Trace.Write(…) will also be directed to the current output log file. The log does not roll until [...]
Mar 112009
FileList is a simple file enumeration class that can be used to easily find sets of files. Provide it a list of directory and/or file names and simply let it figure it out. It will raise an event for custom filtering or has some simple attribute-level filtering built-in. FileList files = new FileList(@”C:\Temp\*”); files.Add(@”C:\boot.ini”); files.Add(@”C:\*.bat”); [...]
Mar 112009
The shared XmlConfiguration utility contains a templated base class used to implement a basic System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection. The class simply uses an XmlSerializer for the type argument specified and deserializes while validating against an XSD file. It’s extremely easy to use as all you need is an xml serializable class to represent your configuration section. To declare [...]
Mar 112009
I so often see numerous projects online that fail to validate input arguments in C#. Back in the early days of C++ this was not only common, but often required by employers. What happened? Did we just become so lazy that we’d rather recieve a null reference exception or index out of range instead of actually [...]