A few years back I started dallying with test-driven development, but I never fully committed to the practice. This wasn’t because I didn’t believe in the value of TDD; it was more a matter of not completely understanding how to incorporate “test first” into my everyday development. Back in my web forms days, I could [...]
What’s up with Ben? All he’s been writing about lately is Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Doesn’t he work with ASP.NET MVC anymore? Let me assure you that I do – just about every single day and it’s been for quite a while now. Sure, I have been spending time learning Ruby but I’m also constantly developing [...]
Early in my career, when I wanted to learn a new technology, I’d sit in the bookstore aisle and I’d work my way through each of the available books on the given subject. Put in enough time in a bookstore and you can learn just about anything. I used to really enjoy my time in [...]
You’re familiar with O’Reilly’s brilliant Head First Series, right? Great. Then you know how every book begins with an explanation of the Head First teaching style and you know the teaching format which Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates developed is based on research in cognitive science, neurobiology and educational psychology and it’s all about making [...]
Last Wednesday, I took a whopping 15 minutes out of my day and added ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) to my ASP.NET MVC application. If you haven’t heard the news (I hadn’t until recently), ELMAH does a killer job of logging and reporting nearly all unhandled exceptions. As for handled exceptions, I’ve been using [...]
I read through Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C# not too long ago. This evening I cracked it open again and jotted down a few notes on what I personally took away from the book. Of course, if I spent the time to write down everything I learned, I might still be busy writing. I’ve thrown [...]
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I read a bit of “jQuery in Action” a couple of weeks back. Actually all I read was the appendix which is aptly titled “JavaScript that you need to know but might not!” This short chapter very concisely covers JavaScript concepts which should be required learning for all web developers. If you are an experienced [...]
I am relatively new to the Test Driven Development (TDD) scene. Though I have read up on the subject (specifically Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers by Lasse Koskela), my only hands-on experience is limited to a single, 3-month project where I was the lone developer. All other information gathered on the [...]