You can’t say that things never change. I nipped out to Tesco last night for a few bits of shopping – you know, some beer, spices for cooking, etc – and came back with an Acer Aspire One. As you do…
To be fair, I have been looking at them closely, and Tesco are by far the cheapest place to get one. I picked up the 1Gb …
Read MoreI posted a while ago on wiring in Fitness.Net into a unit test framework using HTML files to hold the tests. Well I have been using the technique for some workflow acceptance testing and hit a couple of gotta’s that are easy to forget:
- Make sure the HTML files containing the user story tests are set to copy to the …
Read MoreI posted about the problems of using Blend with source control, specifically TFS. Well the next version of TFS Power tools gives a partial answer.
They are to include Windows Shell Extensions so at least the check-in/out process can be managed would having another application open other than an explorer windows.
Well …
Read MoreAs we move into the SOA world workflows will become more common and so the need to test them will increase. If we take the most simplistic view these are a sets if statements and loops so should be amenable to automated testing and TDD.
However you have to careful how you try to do this, it is too easy to forget that …
Read More- The one major thing that I did not like with my Dell Mini was the fact it had installed XP Home. My main grip with this was the fact my main user account had to be an admin user, and I could not login as a user called administrator unless in safe mode. So I decided to do an in place upgrade to XP Professional (which …
Read More WOW, I was expecting this in a few weeks but Microsoft have just announced that .NET 4.0 will include new versions of WCF and WF , with new stateful and conversational services and significantly improved designers.
The new version of WF includes a 10 times performance increase , new flow control models including a …
Read MoreTwo weeks ago I was delighted to be at ReMix in Brighton. On the last day I was asked to be a Judge in the finals of Speaker Idol. The speakers did a great job in entertaining and informing the attendees , taking there own valuable time at the conference to share more information with others.
One chap presented on RGB …
Read MoreColour me impressed. I managed well over four hours’ battery life today and found the Mini 9 a joy to use. I have encountered a snag, however, and it wasn’t one that I expected.
You see, I’m now sitting on the 21:30 train from London Kings Cross to Wakefield after having been in the big smoke for a day of meetings. I …
Read MoreI posted on the problems I had had mocking out an SMTP server, well I have moved on a bit. As I said in the update note in the last post, I had given up on nDumbster and moved over to LumiSoft's freeware mail server.
The Lumisoft server is a far better starting point as it is a 'real' server that supports all the major …
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