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In these days of agile and TDD, most probably you had to deal with mocks. In such case, you have two options: create hundreds of mock classes by hand, one for each expected behavior for every unit test, or use a mock framework. There are many mock...

I really love this new feature of VS2008 that allows you to cleanup the usings section of C# files (and I’ve been always missing this from Eclipse) but I was a bit disappointed when I found there is no choice to execute automatically before every save...

Some time ago I wrote a post about how to create REST clients using WCF and taking advantage of its extensibility to obtain a type safe endpoint. My approach implied create a bunch of WCF behaviors and other extensions that intercepts the messages...

Here are some Java tips for making your code more beautiful, understandable, reliable and maintable. They are in no particular order. Suppose your code will be read by somebody else. Even if you are working on a project on your own, it’s worth commenting...

If you have to generate xml in ruby I suggest take a look at builder gems. It has really little overhead to generate xml. Take a look to this example: require 'Builder' xm=Builder::XmlMarkup.new( :target => $stdout , :indent => 2 ) xm.instruct! xm...

Maybe this example is not impressive as an entire ray tracer in a single line, but it gives an idea of the expressiveness of LINQ. I remember from my high school times, the internal spontaneous competitions looking for the “fastest” prime generators...

In the last weeks I faced a real world example of an ASMX to WCF migration. The existing services has been relying in many of the features available in ASMX, and a complete rewrite would not be an option. Kenny Wolf describes in a post how to reuse...

The most remarkable thing in WCF is its extensibility. The Indigo team did a really great work providing hooks almost everywhere, that allows to customize all behaviors in every step of the communication framework. In this example I created a client...