- I was at the Architect Insight Conference yesterday, so the big question is do I better know the role of the architect in the development process – I have to say no. Don’t get me wrong the event was interesting, I especially enjoyed the interactive group discussion sessions, one of which I chaired if that is the right …
Read More Update 15 May – Date changed due to unexpected overseas trip
I will be doing a session on Testing SharePoint using Typemock Isolator on the 3rd June 17th June in Newcastle. Check the Vbug site for more details.
Read MoreYou can run Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7, but Windows 7 does include a new version of Virtual PC as part of the operating system, which is good.
The problem I have, and as will many others, is though my 64Bit Acer 8210’s Intel process has hardware virtualization support, Acer for some bizarre reason chose to disable it …
Read More- Don’t forget the next Agile Yorkshire meeting on the 13th of May about Exploratory testing. Usual time, usual place, usual free pint for everyone thanks to our sponsors.
Read More The upgrade took about 2 hours following the ‘enable in-place upgrade’ notes. There was a lot of no progress bar movement & percentages not changing whilst the disk light flashed, but we got there in the end.
Thus far all seems OK. so the summary a bit slow but smooth
Read MoreI had an enjoyable day at Developer Day Scotland in Glasgow yesterday; a big thank you to the organisers and speakers.
I did a short grok talk on ‘Testing Sharepoint using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna’, a few people asked me for more details. Well the session was based on a post I did a while ago. I have updated that …
Read MoreThe MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller class; which you can add to as you go along.
Recently whilst …
Read MoreI will be speaking on developer testing of SharePoint projects using Typemock at both the Birmingham and Manchester NXtGen user groups in August.
For more details check the NxtGen site.
Read More- Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily with Visual Studio and Typemock without any need for extra rights. …
Read More - I recently re-enabled feature on a ASP.NET site. This feature (a set of pages) had been running OK about six months ago for an initial pilot project but was disabled until now until a decision was made to develop the feature fully. In intervening time the web site had other modification and had been rebuilt (it was …
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