In my previous post , I provided a walkthrough of Test-Driven Development (TDD), based on a very simple scenario (truncating a string to a specific number of characters). In this post, I'll provide another example using a more complex scenario. Suppose...
In part 1 of this post, I provided my high-level thoughts on doing Test Driven Development (TDD) in the real world, but I didn't get around to walking through an actual sample. To start off simple (but still real world), let's imagine we have a scenario where we need to truncate a string to a limited number of characters for display or output purposes. However, instead of just chopping off the string at the specified number of characters, we want to apply a little "intell
Earlier today I presented a "Knowledge Transfer" session to a team of developers on my current project. If you've ever worked with consultants, you've probably experienced a "KT" session or something similar. In essence, it's just a meeting intended to...
Last month I wrote a post detailing how to increment the assembly version for each build . However, incrementing the assembing version is only part of my recommended build and deployment process . The following figure illustrates how deployments to...
In one of yesterday's posts , I showed how you can easily filter the search results from Bing -- and other search engines -- to only show results from a specific site (e.g. my blog). This morning it occurred to me that I could integrate this into my...
In a previous post , I noted how the " Jameson Datacenter " (a.k.a. my home lab) currently runs two domain controllers (DCs) on a couple of VMs. If you choose to virtualize one or more DCs in your environment, make sure you are aware of the considerations...
A colleague asked me today if there was a way to search my blog for something specific. In my response, I pointed out that you can narrow your search results from Bing to a specific site. For example, suppose you were looking for a blog post that...
Last week a colleague was asking me how I manage my various VMs. More specifically, he wanted to know how I created SysPrep'ed images in order to quickly "spin up" new VMs for development, testing, or demo purposes. Note that I like to keep my environments...
A few years ago I developed a class ( SharePointSearchUrlBuilder ) for working with SharePoint Search URLs. The class is used to easily build or parse the various query string parameters used by SharePoint Search (e.g. keywords, search scope, additional...