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Microsoft Codecamp Buenos Aires 2009

Suppose you have to fix a bug in an ASP.NET application. You’re a TDD-guy so once you identify it, you write a test which should reproduce it. Then you run it and… null pointer exception. Your testing framework may have pointed you to the exact line...

Today I was profiling an application. The timings pointed to a piece of code that executed a query using LINQ. I opened an SQL profiler and saw what queries were performed. Here they are: SELECT [t3].[value] AS [Key] FROM ( SELECT ( SELECT [t2].[Role

One of the issues that arose during the integration process was how to maintain user identity when integrating between different systems. During the exercise, data was moved around anonymously, without having more than a display name describing an...

This past week at Camp Roberts has been incredible. All of the groups present did an amazing work, and we got to test InSTEDD’s GeoChat in a completely different scenario and integrate it with most of the other applications present to come up with...

Camp Roberts CBE

Eclipse plugin to exclude svn and cvs folders in text search

Many times we put all of our effort in developing an elegant solution to a certain problem we have, thus leaving testing to a second place, without too much consideration for it. Regardless of being using TDD or just creating unit tests for the already...

State vs Behaviour Verification

Some time ago I found a quotation by Buckminster Fuller: When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Although...