BarCamp Dallas Review

21 Aug

I went to my first Barcamp today, held at Improving Enterprises in Dallas. It was a technology agnostic event, and It was good to see the cool things developers on other platforms are playing with. I… Read the rest

Useful MacBook accessories

19 Aug

I have had my MacBook Pro for a year now and it’s my primary machine both at work and at home. I have since upgraded it with 8GB RAM (which has come down in price by… Read the rest

Working with a Windows Workflow Service in a non-Workflow client project

17 Aug

I just wasted a day trying to figure out something that should have worked out of the box with Visual Studio. Hopefully, this can save somebody some time. I have been working with Windows Workflow (.Net 4, Visual Studio 2010)… Read the rest

Migrating from dasBlog to WordPress

21 Jul

I migrated this blog from dasBlog to WordPress a couple of weeks ago, to take advantage of the large number of WordPress plug-ins and themes available. Here are the steps I had to follow:
1. Created Local backup of… Read the rest

Connecting to a local resource or service from the Smart Device Emulator in Visual Studio

6 Jun

I am working on a project right now that has a smart device component, and we use the Pocket PC 2003 SE Emulator to test and debug the application locally. It took me a while to get the environment setup… Read the rest

BDD & MSpec presentation at the Dallas CSharp SIG

10 May

Thanks to all who came to my BDD/MSpec talk. If you want, you can watch a video of the talk below.

 

The code that we developed during the talk can be downloaded here.

Getting Started With Mocking – Part 2- Using MOQ

2 Apr

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This is the second part of the 2 post series on Mocking. In the last post, we discussed the basics of Mocking and how Adam (the intern) used Manual Mocking to unit test the simple Shopping… Read the rest

Getting Started with Mocking – Part 1 – The Basics

10 Feb

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This 2 part blog post series is based on a talk I gave at the Dallas C# SIG last month. In this post, I describe general mocking concepts that are independent of mocking frameworks. In the… Read the rest

CodeMash 2010: Review

16 Jan

I am sitting at the Cleveland airport right now, waiting for my flight back to Dallas. I spent the last 3 days at the CodeMash conference held at the Kalahari resorts in Sandusky, Ohio. This was the biggest… Read the rest

Dallas CSharp SIG Presentation Code And Slides

7 Jan

Update: The video for the presentation can be found here.

I’ll be presenting at the Dallas C# SIG later today, and am uploading a draft of the code and slides, in case somebody wants to work on the… Read the rest

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