- If you look on Google Groups you will find the start of a thread trying to organise some AltNet Beers session in Leeds, only the same lines as the London, Bristol etc. events. There appears to be no date set as yet, but keep an eye open, they are a great way to meet like minded people.
Read More A late reminder but tonight is the monthly Agile Yorkshire meeting. This month is an open floor meeting with short presentations from members. Currently the planned subjects are:
- REST and OpenRasta
- Silverlight
- F#
- Thoughts on Test Driven Development practices
- Behaviour Driven Development
Hope to see you there, usual …
Read More- I have got round to watching Peli de Halleux’s presentation on testing SharePoint with moles from the SharePoint Connections 2010 event in Amsterdam, very interesting. This brings a whole new set of tools to the testing of Sharepoint. I think it is best to view the subject of this presentation in two parts Pex and …
Read More I was doing some work today where I needed to fake out a SPWeb object. No problem you think, I am using Typemock Isolator so I just use the line
var fakeWeb = Isolate.Fake.Instance
(); But I got the error
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.SPWebConstructor(SPSite site, String url, Boolean bExactWebUrl, SPRequest request) …
Read MoreAnybody who works will SharePoint will grumble if you mention DCOM activation permissions. No matter how hard we try, how many patches we install (or how hard we try to ignore it), granting activation and launch permissions to the SharePoint service accounts is like plugging a dike with water-soluble filler.
On Server …
Read More- I have at last worked all the way through setting up my portable end to end demo of testing using Windows Test and Lab Manager. The last error I had to resolve was the tests not running in the lab environment (though working locally on the development PC). My the Lab Workflow build was recorded as a partial success …
Read More I have been looking at TFS 2010 Lab Manager recently. One problem I had was that using the sample code from the Lab Manager Blog Walkthru the building of the CALC ASP.NET web site failed on the build server, I got an error
ASPNETCOMPILER: error 1003 The directory ‘c:build1LabWalkthruCalculator –BuildCalc’ does not …
Read More- I recently been working with a client who has been seeing strange problems when they try to create new workitems via a SharePoint portal site on a TFS2010 Beta2 installation. They appeared to have a fully working TFS2010 installation, but when they came in on a morning they found that even though they could login to …
Read More Exploring the new frontier
I’m writing this post whilst watching my Windows Home Server slowly copy data onto an external drive. I mention that not because of its pertinence, but to indicate why I found myself having time to join Facebook.
The other reason was the excellent session given by Eileen Brown at our most …
Read MoreSeems I missed an interesting at session at DDD8, Barry Dorrans’ final DDD performance, with assistance with of other speakers.
Barry you will be missed
Update 5 Feb, links to the interruptions
Plip's Book Advert.
Liam's Eulogy.
Colin Mackay's new source of presentations.
Craig Murphy insulting not one but two ex-UK …
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