The Ref
No. Not the movie. The hook.
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Development
Bending Hooks to Your Will
So the Hook revolution is upon us and we have learned a little bit about useState and useEffect. With these two hooks alone we can get a lot of stuff done.
Getting the Hook
If you have been ignoring the Functional Component aspect of React and only working with Class Components, you might have missed the Hook revolution.
Becoming a Motivated Vagrant
I have been a long time fan of VirtualBox. Setting up and configuring a VM with a Host Only Network to run headless is something that I feel like I can do in...
Rhino Mocks 4.0.0 Alpha Released
It has been a little longer than expected but the latest version of Rhino Mocks has been released and is available from NuGet. You can download the package ...
Fun with xUnit Assert Throws and App Domains
I recently decided to update the shared libraries and tools that are used to build and unit test Rhino Mocks.
Rhino Mocks NuGet
From the beginning of my little adventure I had planned on making sure that Rhino Mocks had a consistent NuGet presence. So it was quite surprising, as I ne...
Rhino Mocks Final Stretch–Field Problems
The final modifications have been made to the Rhino Mocks code base. It has been interesting working through Properties and Events. What was more interestin...
Rhino Mocks Expectations for Events
If one of the features I don’t use very often is the Property Behavior then it’s safe to say that I have never (ever) used “events” within Rhino Mocks. I h...
Rhino Mocks Property Behavior
One feature that I seldom use in Rhino Mocks is the “Property Behavior.” I remember getting an exception every now and then when I would use a property but ...
Recursive Mocks
I have been going through all of the unit tests for Rhino Mocks attempting to get the first “alpha” release ready. One of the sets of unit tests that were f...
Am I Just Getting Lazy?
So I have been working on simplifying the Rhino Mock code base for a little while now and have been making good progress. While I have no empirical data yet...
Simplifying the Rhino Mocks Code Base
It has been an interesting last couple of days.
If you give a Rhino a cookie…
There is a book that I use to read to my daughter titled “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” It’s a funny book which takes the reader through a circular pattern...
Rhino Mocks Unit Tests (let the healing begin)
Over the past few days I have been focusing on “removing” the Record/Replay functionality from Rhino Mocks. I am a little surprised of how easy it was. The ...
Unwinding Rhino Mocks
Finally, progress!. Sure, the “progress” is 124 build errors but… it’s progress; right?
Planning the Next Rhino Mock
It has been a week since I have been given the “keys” to the Rhino Mocks framework and it has been an eye opening experience, to say the least. It was great...
Rhino Mocks New Home
I am proud to state that Rhino Mocks has a new home. I must admit that I am feeling a little nervous. Its not every day that you get take charge of a projec...
State of Rhino Mocks
Ayende Rahien (Oren Eini) recently posted about the state of Rhino Mocks. For those of you who don’t know, Rhino Mocks is a dynamic mock object framework fo...
Head in the Clouds
The past couple of months have been really fun as we have moved our whole product (lock stock and barrel) out into the Cloud. Along the way I have learned a...
NServiceBus - Fifteen Minutes…
After downloading the assemblies I was ready to create my first sample application using NServiceBus. From what I can tell, a lot of time and effort has gon...
Better Unit Testing and TDD
I just got done watching Rob Conery’s latest installment in his Kona series. I have to say that I like the direction that he is going with it and I hope tha...
Handling Validation Errors in MVC (a different approach)
I just got done reading Scott Guthrie’s and Phil Haack’s posts on the MVC Preview 4 release and there was one little piece in the “What’s Next” section tha...
New ASP.Net MVC Source Drop
Scott Guthrie recently posted about the new ASP.Net MVC Source Preview and I have to tell you that I am really excited about these new bits. Not only have ...
ASP.Net MVC Source Code Available… our first test
Scott Guthrie recently posted an article about the ASP.Net MVC Source Code becoming available from the CodePlex website.
Education
SOLID - Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
As stated previously… I am getting (or trying to get) back to basics.
SOLID - Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
As stated previously… I am getting (or trying to get) back to basics.
SOLID - Open Closed Principle (OCP)
As stated previously… I am getting (or trying to get) back to basics.
Dependency Injection - Why should we care?
In my previous post we covered (briefly) Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection. In this post we will discuss why we should use Dependency Inje...
Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
MVC has not only brought about a change in how we think about designing and building web applications on the .Net framework but it has also reminded most of...
Life
Rounding Out The Year Like A Roller Coaster
In my last post I state that I was starting over. As I wrote that post I never would have imagined that I would have the year like I did. Sure, starting in ...
Starting Over
Losing a job because you are not capable is something that I have always been able to handle gracefully. I have never thought that I am owed continued emplo...
Nothing lost but time
It has been a while since I last posted anything.