The Coding Humanist

A few months ago I did lunch-n-learn at work around testing. I wrote down a number of principles that were useful to keep in mind when thinking about when writing automated tests. I figured I would share.

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This announcement by Bertrand Le Roy on some new Ajax Control Toolkit controls was a nice bit of news to me the other day. One thing I was looking for was a new Html editor...great timing! Tonight I set out to implement it in one of my MVC projects.

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Beware, oh world of art! I shall rain horrible drawings upon thee...

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Because I don't have enough to do, I just launched a new site called How ASP.NET MVC Works. Will be updating it occasionally with new content. Hope all you peeps find it useful.

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Need to get SMTP up and running on Vista? Well, I was looking around and found this blog post...

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Dear reader, if you are a fan of strategy games like Civilization, I have a recommended (and free) game for you. It is called Ikariam. A few coworkers and I are playing the game and are creating an alliance. You should join us. If you are interested, join on the "Ny" server and shoot me an email so we can chat and collaborate.

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So I ran across an interesting way of marking up Html forms. I thought it was nice, so I decided to bring that into the world of ASP.NET, because there is a (easy to overcome) roadblock in using the method in traditional ASP.NET (it is odd having to distinguish between traditional and MVC...).

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I haven't tried upgrading an existing site yet, but new website creation works well. The only thing I've seen so far is that if you create a unit test project to go with your web app it won't compile. Luckily, all you have to do is include the proper namespace reference to your controllers at the top.

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So today was fun. Somehow my employer got five free tickets to the miniaturized version of the PDC that they had today at the Galleria in Dallas. Thankfully, I was able to go.

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Some technologies love me. Some hate me. Flash is one of the latter, though I do try to make friends. I had one problem that took me much longer to solve than it should have...

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