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IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

I have posted the presentation slides (in both PowerPoint 2007 and OpenDocument Presentation formats) and demo code here: [EDIT: added link to SlideShare copy] Presentation slides, PowerPoint 2007 format , OpenDocument Presentation format or view online...

Published 05-24-2009 4:54 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, Open Source, C#, .NET, code, presentation, Microsoft, dynamic languages, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby, event

LINQ and db4o

I failed to mention in my previous post that db4o also supports LINQ for executing queries against an object database. In order to avail of this feature, a reference should be added to the Db4objects.Db4o.Linq.dll and you need to specify " using...

Published 04-24-2009 4:01 PM by cruizer

Filed under: C#, .NET, database, OOP, LINQ

Introduction to Object Databases (using db4o)

For the longest time I have been intrigued by object database management systems ( ODBMS ) and I have been wanting to try it out. Of course there are the usual excuses -- I'm busy, I've got no time, I've got so many other projects, etc. Recently...

Published 04-22-2009 11:12 PM by cruizer

Filed under: C#, .NET, database, OOP

TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

Welcome to part two of our series on building a Windows application using test-driven development (TDD). In the previous article we drove the design of our entity classes and data access layer by means of unit tests. The unit tests acted more as specifications...

Published 11-24-2008 11:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, database, agile practices, development tools, unit testing

TDD Step by Step, Part 1

In a hot discussion thread in msforums.ph about the value of unit testing and adopting test-driven development (TDD), a suggestion was made to illustrate how TDD is used in creating a simple application, specifically Keith's October code challenge...

Published 11-24-2008 8:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, agile practices, unit testing

Silverlight 2 Unit Testing: slides and code

It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to...

Published 05-18-2008 4:27 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, code, presentation, Microsoft, development tools, unit testing

Speaking about Silverlight 2 and Unit Testing

I will be speaking tomorrow at the Heroes Community Launch 2008 here in Singapore with my favourite (boring?!) topic...Unit Testing! Only this time it's about the testing framework that comes with Silverlight 2's beta release. Kinda excited and...

Published 05-16-2008 2:50 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, presentation, development tools, unit testing

Lessons learned in optimising Windows forms apps

Wow, I've been in a black hole for months! The usual excuse -- busy at work on projects. Now that we've gotten our app into production, we're now into firefighting, er... I mean maintenance work for that app. Here are some of the lessons I've...

Published 04-25-2008 3:43 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, Microsoft

And so I ate my words

Yeah, I said enums are evil . Now I'm taking them back. I was forced to swallow my pride and use an enum for my current project. This is for representing the privilege level of the user. I guess the simplicity of the enum won me over, since one can...

Published 10-09-2007 6:50 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, C#, development tools

.NET Framework 3.5 code to be "opened"

This was a major announcement , and lots of people were already blogging about it when I turned on my PC this morning. My initial reaction was -- what for? I think that for those who create custom libraries and controls, this will be a godsend. But for...

Published 10-04-2007 1:02 PM by cruizer

Filed under: C#, .NET, development tools

Cyclomatic complexity and its effect on my code

Have you heard of the term cyclomatic complexity ? I had my first encounter with it in the current project we're doing at work. One of the senior guys in our project set up our build server, with CruiseControl.NET invoking a tool called SourceMonitor...

Published 09-20-2007 6:41 PM by cruizer

Filed under: TDD, C#, code, agile practices, OOP, development tools

Predictable code

In my early years of programming, performance was everything. These days, since I don't do system-level programming anymore, code maintainability is more important. Of course that doesn't mean to say that it's OK for my code to suck so many...

Published 06-12-2007 7:55 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, code

Test-First Demo: Developing a User Login Facility, part 1

OK, so now it's time to "walk the talk." I'll be demo-ing here how to develop a user login facility test first -- how you can begin a test, then code your class to pass that test. Then we'll add one feature or behavior at a time until we completely fulfill...

Published 04-03-2007 12:26 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, agile practices

Introduction to C# and .NET Part 2 slides

Download the slides in PowerPoint format , OpenDocument format or PDF . I still do not know what to expect for tomorrow's event. Hopefully the attendees will be able to learn fast and that I will be able to explain things clearly. These part 2 slides...

Published 02-02-2007 4:46 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, presentation

Introduction to C# and .NET Part 1 slides

Some of us from the TipidPC community will be holding a small hands-on seminar on C# and the .NET Framework this February 3, Saturday, at 9 am. Details can be found here if you are interested to attend. Download the slides here: PowerPoint format OpenDocument...

Published 01-31-2007 5:20 PM by cruizer