DevExpress is a Platinum Sponsor of Austin Code Camp 2010
Eric Hexter
3.12.10
Developer Express Inc. develops Feature-Complete Components for ASP.Net and Winforms, Reporting Tools, IDE Add-ins, and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio. Information at www.devexpress.com...
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No silver domain modeling bullets
Jimmy Bogard
3.11.10
This past week, I attended a presentation on Object-Role Modeling (with the unfortunate acronym ORM) and its application to DDD modeling". The talk itself was interesting, but more interesting were some...
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Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections
Jimmy Bogard
3.10.10
Previous posts in this series: A Primer Aggregate Construction One of the common themes throughout the DDD book is that much of the nuts and bolts of structural domain-driven design is just plain good...
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Video and Code Sample for Practical TDD Art of Unit Testing
Mahendra Mavani
3.9.10
Here is the video clip on Practical TDD - the virtual learning session series. Its little over one hour presentation that I gave on 8th March, 2010 Alternatively, if for some reason you cant see embedded...
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Strongly-Typed UI tests
Rafael Torres
3.9.10
One of the advantages that writing UI test in the same language as the AUT is written, is the ability to use part of the same View logic to author your tests. Moreover, in our case, this has allowed us to...
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Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article)
Jeffrey Palermo
3.9.10
CoDE Magazine has published a new article from me on MvcContrib . Here is an excerpt: Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called...
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Practical TDD : Virtual Learning Session
Mahendra Mavani
3.9.10
As Promised here is the link to join session. 1. Please join my meeting. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/225879818 2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using...
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I am speaking at the Lubbock .Net User Group on March 29th
Jeffrey Palermo
3.8.10
If you live in the area, or if you are a student at Texas Tech University, come on out to the Lubbock .Net Users Group. More details to follow. http://www.ldnug.net/...
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Headspring continues to hire: we will train contract-to-hire positions
Jeffrey Palermo
3.5.10
Refer to position details: http://www.headspringsystems.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/ Headspring is always looking for good people, and we have continued to expand throughout the downturn in the...
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Video of C4MVC talk on MvcContrib Portable Areas
Jeffrey Palermo
3.4.10
Recently, I gave a presentation to the C4MVC virtual user group focus on ASP.NET MVC, and headed up by Eric Hexter . You can see the meeting info here . I introduced and walked through a Portable Areas sample....
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Returning failure to main Batch from within bat file
Mahendra Mavani
3.3.10
Based on standard deployment practice that we follow at Headspring , our project too, has tarantino console deployer in place. This consoloe deployer is triggered by Cruise Control project. This set up enables...
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How to get started with Test Automation
Rafael Torres
3.2.10
A buddy of mine, who is in QA, recently asked me for advice on how to get started on test automation on an existing web application. If youre on the same boat, heres my advice:
Start with small steps. Pick a...
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Agile Training At Month's End
Tom Jaeschke
3.2.10
For truly top-notch Agile .NET training, please investigate Headspring's Agile Boot Camp for .NET Part I. See http://www.headspringsystems.com/services/agile-training/agile-boot-camp-part-I/ for details. I...
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Agile Training in Austin
Nicholas Becker
3.1.10
For anyone interested in some really all-encompassing agile training in the Austin area, theres a fantastic one coming up from March 24-26th at Headspring . All the topic details, schedule and registration info...
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Headspring Agile Boot Camp, March 24-26 sign up now Austin, TX
Jeffrey Palermo
3.1.10
Started in January of 2008, Headsprings Agile Boot Camp series of trainer has received many positive reviews both from local Austin developers to folks traveling from other parts of the country. Go to...
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Strengthening your domain: Aggregate Construction
Jimmy Bogard
2.24.10
Our application complexity has hit its tipping point, and we decide to move past anemic domain models to rich, behavioral models. But what is this anemic domain model Lets look at Fowlers definition, now over...
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Yet another Google/Gmail wonder
Mahendra Mavani
2.22.10
This is great. One more reason to love gmail. I don't think I have to explain anything. Picture tells the story:...
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Check out Mercurial version control with my CodePlex repository
Jeffrey Palermo
2.19.10
Mercurial SCM (Hg) is a Distributed Version Control System (DVSC). More importantly, your code doesnt know or care how it is being versioned. In other words, None of your VS solution or project files will be...
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Bypassing JavaScript dialogs for WatiN tests
Rafael Torres
2.19.10
As described in a previous blog post , we wanted to implement a practical way to disable JavaScript (JS) dialogs for our automated UI test environments.
At first, we were reading the configuration directly from...
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Setting up environment configurations for automated UI Testing in ASP.NET MVC
Rafael Torres
2.18.10
Up to recently, on one of our big projects, we had been using a Windows environment variable to determine when the application needed to be adapted for UI testing or not. Let me give a little more background...
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