I am currently looking at automation of acceptance testing for workflows and a common task is to make sure an email has been sent. To do this in a TDD style I have been using the mock SMTP server nDumbster.
Now this was a port from Java in the the days of .NET 1.1 and does not seem to have had any development since. …
Read MoreAfter Alt.net I had thought getting an ultra light notebook was a good idea. At most conference I need to browser, blog and read email; I don’t need to carry around a full development desktop replacement laptop.
Whilst at ReMix I had enough of the old battery in my Acer laptop, so just before it ran out of juice again …
Read MoreBrian Harry has published an interesting post on the platform decisions for 'Rosario'.
The most interesting item is it will only support SQL 2008; so get planning a migration for that central enterprise SQL server!
Read MoreSo how was ReMix? well a bit like last year not earth shattering, but what can you expect. We have PDC in a month so there is going to be no major announcements, also this is a rerun event from the US MIX conference, again reducing the chances of anything new.
So if you are a developer and been to TechEd or just to …
Read More- I have eventually got round to rebuilding my GUITester on Codeplex for VS2008. I must get round to looking to see if a similar declarative test markup system has any mileage for XAML. Something was talking about at Alt.net in the spring - how time flies.
Read More I have been asked a couple of times whist at the Alt.net and ReMix conferences about the local user groups around Leeds. Well these are the regular free community events I know about:
Black Marble community events - my company runs free community events at a hotel between Leeds and Bradford roughly monthly from autumn …
Read More- I have just found out that the session I was doing at Vbug in Coventry next week has been cancelled due to low numbers. Sorry if you were planning to come, but don't worry I will be doing a similar sessions (the the bonus of post PDC Rosario updates) at the VBug conference in November.
Read More - It is all well and good Microsoft saying that a developers and designer can share the same project WPF/Silverlight files in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, but whilst Blend does not have the ability to use a source control repository (TFS, SVN or anything else for that matter) and actually strips out any source …
Read More - Just seen the keynote for Remix in Brighton, I must say that Bill Buxton's part was one of the best keynotes I have seen (watch out for the streamed webcast). For me the most important thing for a keynote is to set the tone, the meme, for the conference and his session certainly did. OK it is good to see the demos of …
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