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September 2004 - Posts

Peli is at it AGAIN!

And this time he's playing with FlexWiki (newly arrived at SourceForge, as I'm sure you read elsewhere). Other people have commented on his prolific (yet still remarkably high quality) output, but I'm beginning to think he's got some sort of time machine... Read More
posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:22 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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WhatbiTdd

I mentioned some time ago that when I restarted work on WhaTBI? it would be on a test-driven basis. Well, that time has finally come (I'm currently at 'green' on the first iteration, so will post the code and commentary as soon as I've refactored) so Read More
posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:50 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Idea of the day #2 - Test Driven Maintenance

(This was actual the idea of a day several weeks ago, but I've been a bit busy...) We all know that Test Driven Development follows the "red, green, refactor" mantra, and in that idealised world when we're all writing brand spanking, new, state of the Read More
posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:36 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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SuperWaba 4.5 released

From Freshmeat: This email is to inform you about the release of version '4.5' of'SuperWaba' through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful informationcan be found at    http://freshmeat.net/projects/superwaba/The changes in this release are as follows:This Read More
posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:09 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Another interesting looking wiki tool...

Via Jon: Via (WebMink) I came across TiddlyWiki which is a wiki like tool, completely written in DHTML and CSS. From my brief playing with it, it looks like it really rocks. Looks like something else I need to check out... Read More
posted Monday, September 27, 2004 9:46 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Peli puts things in context

Jonathan de Halleux (a.k.a. Peli) has discovered context, something that I've mentioned previously myself. If MbUnit is anything to go by, this could have some very interesting results... Read More
posted Monday, September 20, 2004 1:44 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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SqlUnit 4.0 released

Mike Gunderloy has been at it again, this time pointing out the recent release of SqlUnit 4.0. Incidentally, it was also from Mike that I found out about TSQLUnit. Read More
posted Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:52 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Nice article on NETSH

I've known for a while its a powerful and useful tool, but the somewhat complex syntax has always put me off. This, though, is a nice, short article entitled "10 Cool things to do with NETSH" acts as a rather nice "howto" type guide. Enjoy! Read More
posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:23 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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"Curioddity" with .NET strings

Kit George posts another "curioddity" on the BCL Team 'blog which shows what happens when you try to modify "constant" strings. This is much like my previous post "C++ string literals are NOT const", except: there are no access violations (hooray!) Read More
posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:26 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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SlickRun

I'm back off holiday and already must thank Scott Hanselman for yet another top tool tip. As the man himself puts it: I'm in love, and her name is "SlickRun" And it's also from Bayden, who if memory serves were responsible for the incredibly Read More
posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:35 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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