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• 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... Posted May 18 2008, 04:27 PM by cruizer with | with 9 comment(s) 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... Posted May 16 2008, 02:50 PM by cruizer with | with 3 comment(s) 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... Posted Apr 25 2008, 03:43 PM by cruizer with | with no comments 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... Posted Oct 09 2007, 06:50 PM by cruizer with | with 4 comment(s) 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... Posted Oct 04 2007, 01:02 PM by cruizer with | with 2 comment(s) 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... Posted Sep 20 2007, 06:41 PM by cruizer with | with 3 comment(s) 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... Posted Jun 12 2007, 07:55 AM by cruizer with | with 9 comment(s) 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... Posted Apr 03 2007, 12:26 PM by cruizer with | with 4 comment(s) 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... Posted Feb 02 2007, 04:46 PM by cruizer with | with 1 comment(s) 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... Posted Jan 31 2007, 05:20 PM by cruizer with | with no comments Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, presentation

• Continuous Integration rocks; AnkhSVN sucks

  I'm midway into my second week at my new employer, and I must say that continuous integration is great. Everyone is quickly in sync and there's immediate feedback that you don't get when you're not using CI. I must admit that since it's my first time... Posted Jan 10 2007, 04:56 PM by cruizer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, agile practices

• Cross-Platform C# Slides

  It was merely a coincidence. But just a week after Microsoft and Novell made a highly-controversial deal about Linux, I now probably hold the dubious distinction of being (one of) the first person to do a Linux-oriented presentation in the Microsoft Philippines... Posted Nov 09 2006, 07:24 AM by cruizer with | with no comments Filed under: DotNET, Open Source, C#, .NET, linux, mono

• Updated slides and code for TDD

  Yesterday's MSDN event was tiring but I guess it was worth it. Hopefully these slides and demo code help convince you to adopt the test-driven approach to coding. Too bad there were not enough shirts/jackets for everyone. Hmm, I feel envious that the... Posted Oct 06 2006, 10:31 AM by cruizer with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, C#, .NET, code, presentation