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About Duncan Butler

Trying to be a very agile software developer, working in C# with Specflow, Nunit and Machine Specifications, and in the evening having fun with Ruby and Rails

Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of Money 2

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Duncan Butler

  The next test we need to write to to create the engine class [Test] public void Create() { Assert.IsNotNull(new MoneyEngine.Engine()); }   this test will fail at first, as we don’t have an engine class, so after creating that … Continue reading →

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Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of money

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Duncan Butler

  Right, so the program outline is I run a balance sheet, so I know how much should be in my account at the bank, (they are never up to date) its a simple list of additions and subtractions with … Continue reading →

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Real Test Driven Development

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Duncan Butler

  Time to put my thoughts on the line, I have read many posts and blogs about test driven development (TDD), both for and against.  I have tried to write my code at work in a test driven manor. So I … Continue reading →

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CultureInfo

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Duncan Butler

Problem:   I am working on  a web form that has a date input field, the date is entered as a string and then converted to a date for storage.   This is ok if the users only enter dates … Continue reading →

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Finally Got Thre

Posted on April 10, 2006 by Duncan Butler

I have been looking at this for a few weeks now off and on, I need for work a way of alterting prople on our website to a service, sort of one way message box.  well I wanted to poll … Continue reading →

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Grasshopper thoughts

Posted on March 12, 2006 by Duncan Butler

Ok so its march, where is the timegoing, there have been new versions of Code Rush, Refactor Pro, Test Driven and Nunit, we have code coverage now with Test Driven,so meny toys.   Anyway this was to say I am … Continue reading →

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Relations and data

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Duncan Butler

I have recently been reading Ralf Sudelbucher’s blog about Pile, a concept of storing the relationship between data insted of the data itself, the data can always be reconstructed from the relationships.   http://weblogs.asp.net/ralfw/rss.aspx   Anyway after having a play with his version … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista on a Virtual PC

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Duncan Butler

Ok so what have I been upto, there was an update to windows vista build recently, and it coencided with a link to a blog that I hadn’t seen before   http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/rss.aspx   I had never installed vista until now, … Continue reading →

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Ncover and other updates

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Duncan Butler

Ok so I am suffering form a state of update itus, caused when you have lots of ideas and little inclination to start a project, so you look down the list of tools and realise that they all have updates, … Continue reading →

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New Stuff

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Duncan Butler

OK for those who didn’t know the January CTP of the Expression group of programs is now out, including the all new Interface designer (Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer) argh what was wrong with Sparkle.   http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/interactive_designer/default.mspx   Sparkle comes with … Continue reading →

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