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Mocking the 'unmockable': too much of a good thing?

Andrew Phillips@nospam.com — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:57:33 -0500

Static calls, final classes: there are few things some of the current mocking frameworks cannot handle. Using powerful approaches, these libraries make code that was previously a 'no go' area amenable to unit testing.Does such power perhaps come with dangers? Might it be possible that the ability to test more could actually result in less code quality?

Guerrilla Capacity Planning and the Law of Universal Scalability

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:35:35 -0400

In the era of Web 2.0 traditional approaches to capacity planning are often difficult to implement. Guerrilla Capacity Planning facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever performance data and tools are available, writes Geekr.

Enterprise architecture frameworks in the air

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:06:43 -0400

Enterprise architecture frameworks each have their ups and downs. Is it possible to combine the best features of each into some ultimate framework? Read about the frameworks currently available, and what a comprehensive one would involve.

Enhancements to VSTS Web test APIs

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:44:58 -0400

Bill Barnett describes recent enhancements to VSTS Web test APIs on his blog.

UI programming models on the march

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:21:34 -0400

Writes Patrick Logan: ''I don't think HTML and AJAX should or could go away any time soon. But I don't think all "clients" have to be entirely (or at all) made of HTML and AJAX. The more RESTful the web becomes the less clients have to consist of HTML and AJAX.''

de Icaza on Moonlight

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:10:45 -0400

The first source code release of Moonlight, the open-source version of Silverlight, is available. From Miquel de Icaza's blog.

Stroustrup on programming languages in evolution

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:58:59 -0400

Certainly one of the chief rockstar programmers of all time is Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++. MSDN recently interviewed Bjarne; the topic was language, and it made for a good read.

Ola Bini on language

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:35:48 -0500

He admits everyone doesn't share this opinion, but he has a firm belief that the end of big languages is very close.

You never forget your first Silverlight 1.0 application

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:33:06 -0500

As Silverlight 2.0 prepped for its close-up, there was still time for a drill down on Silverlight 1.0, coutesy of Shawn Wildermuth.

If you generate tests from code, is that TDD?

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:49:09 -0500

Writes Bob Martin: TDD is the act of using tests as a way to drive the development of the system. You write unit test code first, and then you write the application code that makes that code pass. Clearly, generating tests from existing code violates that simple rule.