In my last post ( here ) I was giving a wrap up of the Mocking session I recently did at TriNug . In that post I gave some of the reasons (sorry, I meant excuses) people gave for not doing any type of automated testing during their dally development ritual (notice I am staying away from TDD at this point...

I understand floating point numbers can be somewhat imprecise but I'm a bit bothered today when I see the following evaluates to false: 1: float f = .16f; 2: double d = .16d; 3:   4: Assert.That(f, Is.EqualTo(d)) Annoyingly I wanted to see what the two values are: 1: Console.WriteLine(( double...

There's a lot of posts and chatter about testing, TDD, and a number of other topics on this blog, the larger devlicio.us site, and the .NET community in general.  Before all that, it should go without saying, but it must be said; there is a pre-requisite to testing, care about your code. You...

I am all for comments in code (gasp I know) but some are just a total waste of time. Case in point. I came across this today. /// <summary> /// Commit Transaction. /// </summary> public void CommitTransaction() { ........ } WTF, I guess putting the Commit Transaction comment makes it more...

It is no secret that I am not a fan of MSTest (read here for more rants on MSTests). Today's rant is about how MSTest does not allow you to have a clean build server. Yea I know what you are thinking, here comes another long winded rant on MSTest. Well this should not be too long winded, and hey...

How cool is Google Chrome (new browser from Google)?  Way cool...like "too cool to run on your machine cool" Thumbs up though for their error screen, just wish I didn't have to see it

We're all familiar with the Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare . In the story, the hare, who is in every way is faster than the tortoise, loses a race to the tortoise. The main principle of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. In my development I am shooting to be a tortoise...

Recently my wife, my son and I went into a local store (not going to mention which) to pickup an order that had been placed a few weeks back. When we walked in we were asked to put our name on a 'waiting list' because they were so busy. We went ahead and put our name on the list and were about...

Yesterday I spent 4+ hours trying to tackle a bug that should not have been a bug in the first place, and the culprit was MSTest. Please keep in mind that I have never really used MSTest in any real form. I am a NUnit guy through and through. Here is some background on what I was trying to do (keep in...

Ok, I am only a few days into using Linq and I am already getting annoyed. I have a need to create an abstract base class that will have a few common properties (columns) that will be used by all my inherited classes. Here is what I WAS wanting to do. public abstract class StagedUserInformation { [Column...