Archive for November, 2007

Service Factory: Modeling Edition VS2005 available

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The release is on CodePlex for you to download. I'll be posting some more about the factory, largely based on stuff we'll be talking about today at the p&p Summit.

Geoduck

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

What's the most disgusting looking thing you've ever eaten? I used to have to think about about this, there were several not very pleasant candidates. Not any more... They say you're not really a local in the Pacific Northwest if you don't know what a geoduck (pronounced gooeyduck) is. Geoduck is a really ...

Service Factory and Software Factories

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

So now Service Factory: Modeling Edition has now shipped I have a bit more time to think, rather then just "do". There are a couple of new blog categories: Service Factory - Posts about the Service Factory: Modeling Edition and how we built it and the lessons we learnt along the way. Software ...

xUnit.net runs tests in random order

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

When I was testing the behavior of MSTest's DeploymentItem attribute I relied on fact that MSTest executes tests in a predictable order to figure out how the attribute works. Typically it seems to execute test methods in the order they appear in the class. You should never ever rely on this ...

“Software Factories” a poor choice of name

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Names are important. As Harry Pierson pointed out in his p&p Summit talk this isn't the industrial age any more. Factories have had their day, we certainly don' create software the same way people build cars, if we ever did. The "factory" name doesn't really do the idea justice. I prefer ...