Head in the Clouds
4 minute read
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 …
Handling Validation Errors in MVC (a different approach)
9 minute read
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 …
New ASP.Net MVC Source Drop
3 minute read
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 they …
ASP.Net MVC Source Code Available... our first test
2 minute read
Scott Guthrie recently posted an article about the ASP.Net MVC Source Code becoming available from the CodePlex website.
I think that this a huge step in the …
Handling Validation Errors in MVC (a different approach)
9 minute read
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 …
New ASP.Net MVC Source Drop
3 minute read
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 they …
ASP.Net MVC Source Code Available... our first test
2 minute read
Scott Guthrie recently posted an article about the ASP.Net MVC Source Code becoming available from the CodePlex website.
I think that this a huge step in the …
Head in the Clouds
4 minute read
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...
6 minute read
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 gone …
Bending Hooks to Your Will
4 minute read
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
5 minute read
If you have been ignoring the Functional Component aspect of React and only working with Class Components, you might have
missed the Hook revolution.
One of the …
Bending Hooks to Your Will
4 minute read
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
5 minute read
If you have been ignoring the Functional Component aspect of React and only working with Class Components, you might have
missed the Hook revolution.
One of the …
Rhino Mocks Core
2 minute read
I have been itching to get back to working on Rhino Mocks and I finally have a chance to do so.
The next version of Rhino Mocks will be a complete rewrite …
Rhino Mocks 4.0.0 Alpha Released
1 minute read
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 from …
Rhino Mocks NuGet
1 minute read
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 near …
Rhino Mocks Final Stretch–Field Problems
3 minute read
The final modifications have been made to the Rhino Mocks code base. It has been interesting working through Properties and Events. What was more interesting, …
Rhino Mocks Expectations for Events
3 minute read
If one of the features I don’t use very often is the [Property Behavior]({% post_url 2013-09-17-rhino-mocks-property-behavior %}) then it’s safe to say that I …
Rhino Mocks Property Behavior
2 minute read
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
3 minute read
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 …
Am I Just Getting Lazy?
3 minute read
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, I …
Simplifying the Rhino Mocks Code Base
4 minute read
It has been an interesting last couple of days.
I finished converting all of the existing unit tests from using Record/Replay syntax to the Arrange/Act/Assert …
If you give a Rhino a cookie…
2 minute read
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 of …
Rhino Mocks Unit Tests (let the healing begin)
2 minute read
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
1 minute read
Finally, progress!. Sure, the “progress” is 124 build errors but… it’s progress; right?
One of the things that I have been doing is cleaning up the code base by …
Planning the Next Rhino Mock
3 minute read
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 to …
Rhino Mocks New Home
1 minute read
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 project …
State of Rhino Mocks
2 minute read
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 for …
SOLID - Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
4 minute read
As stated previously… I am getting (or trying to get) back to basics.
It is my belief that developers have to often times refactor the way they think and the …
SOLID - Open Closed Principle (OCP)
3 minute read
As stated previously… I am getting (or trying to get) back to basics.
It is my belief that developers have to often times refactor the way they think and …
SOLID - Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
3 minute read
As stated previously… I am getting (or trying to get) back to basics.
It is my belief that developers have to often times refactor the way they think and …
Dependency Injection - Why should we care?
6 minute read
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 …
Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
3 minute read
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 us …
Better Unit Testing and TDD
5 minute read
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 …
Better Unit Testing and TDD
5 minute read
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 …
Becoming a Motivated Vagrant
3 minute read
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 my …
Becoming a Motivated Vagrant
3 minute read
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 my …
Fun with xUnit Assert Throws and App Domains
3 minute read
I recently decided to update the shared libraries and tools that are used to build and unit test Rhino Mocks.
I updated psake from version 0.22 to version …