Archive for November, 2007
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.
Tags: Events, Service Factory
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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 ...
Tags: Travel, Trivia
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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 ...
Tags: Service Factory, Software factories
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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 ...
Tags: Gotchas, TDD, xUnit
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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 ...
Tags: Software factories
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