Transform app.config and web.config
One of the biggest promises and benefits of Agile is short feedback loops and to get short feedback loop we need to deploy our application frequently. From Agile Manifesto: “Our highest priority is to...
View ArticleIntroduction to bddify
If you are new to BDD you may want to read BDD to the rescue first. This is an introduction and a start of a series about bddify, a powerful BDD framework for .Net, called ‘Bddify In Action': Using...
View ArticleDeveloper productivity tools and Visual Studio extensions
A few days ago a question was asked on Readify’s internal forum about useful VS extensions. A few extensions were mentioned that I had not used before and I am glad to have installed them now. So I...
View ArticleMigrating from Mercurial to Git
I have used quite a lot of source control systems: started with Visual Source Safe, then used SVN, various versions of TFS, SourceGear for a short while, StarTeam, Mercurial and Git … and in my opinion...
View ArticleAutomated UI Testing Done Right
Background Two years ago I was very sceptical about automated UI testing. I had some painful experience with it because while writing the tests seemed relatively easy, maintaining them would become...
View ArticleWhy I do not mind VS2012 ALL CAPS menu
Visual Studio 2012 is very impressive and I like a lot of things about it. It has quite a lot of useful features and yet the ALL CAPS menus seem to be the most popular topic and a lot of devs seem...
View ArticleMitigate your merge issues
When working in a team it is very easy to get into merge hell where your changes do not easily/nicely integrate with those made by your teammates. Merge issues could get quite serious and ugly. On my...
View ArticleNullable Types’ Subtlety
I did a post called .Net Nullable Types on GeekQuiz.Net that I think is worth sharing here (in case you are not following me there). Also FunnelWeb has a nicer and more readable format. So here we go....
View ArticleDealing with Net Negative Producing Programmers
In his ‘Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams‘ post Steve McConnell mentions: Researchers have found 10-fold differences in productivity and quality between different programmers...
View ArticleCode generation pros and cons and T4 Template
I dislike code generation and usually see it as a smell. If you are using code generation of any kind, there is a good chance something is wrong with your design or solution! So perhaps instead of...
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