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Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch
Posted by on January 16, 2012
I have been flirting with the idea of getting into mobile development in my spare time. I have went so far as to offer myself out as a developer to startups in Chicago to develop simple iOS applications in exchange for tool licenses. I am a firm believer in the idea that a craftsman buys his own [...]
Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video
Posted by on January 14, 2012
Overview During this presentation I will provide an overview of what is needed to get started using Visual Studio 2010 with the AWS Toolkit & SDK. We’ll also cover the basic design ideas behind the do’s and don’ts of cloud architecture and development. There will be some hands on coding (if you’d like to bring [...]
Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas
Posted by on January 3, 2012
I have been working on a small sample application called SignMeUp. My intention is to practice concepts I am learning while reading Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests. I am using the awesome NancyFx micro-framework my web delivery mechanism and Razor as my view engine. To start I have the following unit test. I [...]
Will Write iOS Application for Licenses
Posted by on December 30, 2011
I am interested in getting more into iOS development. I have written some prototypes with XCode and MonoTouch. I really like MonoTouch and would really like my own license, so I can create some personal applications and play in the space. But sadly am unable to afford it at the moment. That is where you [...]
Getting Gilded Rose Under Test
Posted by on December 22, 2011
While I was attending the Software Craftsmanship North America conference this year, Ian Davis post a video of himself performing the Gilded Rose Kata. I really enjoyed watching it and wanted to take a stab at it myself. I had a couple hours to kill sitting at O’Hair waiting on my flight so I fired [...]
The Four Rules of Simple Design
Posted by on December 21, 2011
When you first get involved with agile development, you quickly hear about the SOLID principals and design patterns. They are a bit much to bite off at first. Through the Ruby community I have discovered a simpler more fundamental set of guidance for beginners that appear to be fundamentals for the higher level principals of SOLID, called [...]
Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework
Posted by on December 18, 2011
NOTE: I am not an Entity Framework expert nor do I claim to be. I am a user of ORMs in the general developer space and this exercise is an attempt to map my workflow and knowledge to EF and it’s associated tools. Here there be dragons. Introduction I have been an ORM fan for many [...]
January 12 / Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK, Building For the Cloud
Posted by on December 17, 2011
The South Sound .NET Users Group is proud to present Adron Hall on Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK, Building for the Cloud this coming January 12th at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW in downtown Olympia. Adron is a personal friend and brilliant developer who I have had the personal pleasure of working [...]
December 8th SSDNUG Presents: Charlie Poole on NUnit – Beyond the Basics
Posted by on November 30, 2011
Most .NET developers have some familiarity with NUnit, but often they learn to use certain basic techniques and never go beyond them. In this talk I’ll present a some ideas you may want to try, including: parameterized tests and fixtures, generic tests, theories, the use of the TestContext and the creation of adding. The presentation [...]
SCNA 2011 Brain Dump Edition
Posted by on November 18, 2011
Corey Haines started the conference off a bit worried. Are we repeating the mistakes of the ’90? Are “learn to code in 24 hour” mentalities populating startups with unprepared developers writing tomorrows legacy code? He suggests reading Learn to Program in 10 Years instead. Businesses are desperate for for people who can code. If they [...]
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