I learned a long time ago that Sharing is knowing. Here I'm sharing my thoughts on .NET development, agile/lean software engineering, bdd, tdd, the Salvation Army and life in general.
I’m back with Visual Studio 2008 after a few months only doing Visual Studio 2010 stuff. And… you miss some stuff. Things get old so fast. Sad.
Here’s some nifty tools that get you a bit closer; PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008.
Aaah – now it feels a bit better.
I am so proud. My evil scheme to keep my calendar(s) in sync got tested for real today.
Got to new customer. Installed Outlook to Google Calendar. Started Outlook. Viola! All my events from my other calendars in place with the ones from my customer. So now they will not book me on days when I have other assignments etc.
The only thing is that you cannot think to much about it because it will drive you mad. My customer Outlook is synched with Gmail, my Avega outlook is also synched with the same account to Gmail. My phone synchs to Gmail… But it works. ‘Nuff said.
One thing that I really love being on a contract is that you’re almost immediately is forced to find solutions, whereas on a leisure project you rather do something else…
Here is another great tool; AutoMapper. It’s a framework that do all of that tedious mapping code you’re doing in for ViewModels or Messages in services. Boring and tedious to write and test. AutoMapper takes care of that – using a lot of Conventions.
Be sure to see the screencast that introduce a lot of the possibilities.
As you could read in my latest post I have be a bit frustrated with TDD and where to start, lately. BDD is of course the answer to that. But I must say that the frameworks are available to the .NET crowd is a bit weird. Either you have some really funky syntax (hey Anders, a new colleague and great guy) or it’s build on top on other stuff and where hard to work with.
I simply cannot see myself introduce any ordinary programmers to any of that.
But here is something that looks more like it… a bit at least; SpecFlow. It’s also built with an eye too RSpec, Cucumber and Ruby but build in the style of .NET and C#.
Here is a (silent) screencast, something about syntax and workflow and some great resources.
From this it even looks that they support Swedish… Great work guys!
I’ll be sure to look into this a bit more. Later. New assignment today.