Shhh...don't tell anyone but we don't unit test all of our code.  We're striving to get all developers and managers on board with unit testing but we're not there yet.  Despite our delinquency in writing tests one thing we do try our very best to do is keep mistakes from happening...

I want to invite any of you who are within a few hours of Des Moines, Iowa to attend the second Iowa Code Camp on November 8th.  The first Iowa Code Camp back in May was a huge success. From Derik's write-up : Yesterdays event was awesome.  They had about 125-150 people show up for the...

Often times I get the sense that others think I'm a nut for testing.  There are plenty of others out there who are far more dogmatic about testing than I am.  In fact right now I'd be ashamed to share with you the test coverage of our current project.  I will say that the old codebase...

Roy Osherove is one of my favorite .NET personalities.  Having had the chance to spend some time with him in Seattle this past April at the Alt.NET conference I came to see him as someone who is very well thought out on many of his positions.  Roy posted this last weekend a post on mocks and...

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...

Transgression One of my crusades of the past year has been to break myself and my team of the habit of embedding domain logic into the code-behinds of our ASP.NET pages. For me, this is a habit that has carried over from the ASP 3.0 days of old. More recently, we have a nice domain layer that is persisted...