Jun
30
2008
Earler this year I published my first book, Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse. Instead of working with an established publisher, I decided to self-publish the book using a print-on-demand service. The journey to get the book from the early concept to a printed copy that someone can buy from Amazon was, without a doubt, at the same time one of the most exhausting and one of the most fulfilling experiences in my career. Here is what I’ve learned from it. Continue Reading »
Jun
30
2008
I’m doing a talk on effective test driven database development this Thursday in London (near Farringdon station, stating at 18:30). I’ll talk about unit testing stored procedures, test data management and best practices for java/.net integration testing that involves a database. In the talk I’ll also give a technical demo of my DbFit database unit testing library that provides DB management/unit testing capabilities to FIT/FitNesse.
The event will be organised by Skills Matter, and it is free but registration is required. For more info, see:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/effective-test-driven-database-development
See you on Thursday!
Jun
23
2008
Last month, I took a short break from my computer and went on a holiday. When I came back I was surprised to find that, while I was on the beach, Google sent quite a few people looking for underground Korean adult movies to my web log. I don’t know what is so special about the Korean illegal film industry, but considering that they also eat dogs there, it must be something very interesting to watch. I guess that you can find anything on Internet these days, but why were they looking for it on my web site? The answer to that question turned out to be another great example of why inputs should be sanitised no matter how unimportant. Continue Reading »
Jun
17
2008
Andrew Dassing and Dean Wampler posted a few e-mails to the FitNesse mailing list recently hinting at what will be the new features in the upcoming FitNesse release. According to Dean’s e-mail, we can expect a new release in the next couple of weeks. Some of the changes will make it much easier to edit and manage complex test pages, and there are quite a few shortcuts to make page editing more efficient. Here are the changes that I found the most interesting: Continue Reading »
Jun
17
2008
I read about Wordle on a mailing list recently and decided to try it out. It is a web based app that produces word clouds from text — a really nice way to summarise large chunks of texts and show visually what they are about. Here’s a dump of the introduction chapter of my book Test Driven .NET development with FitNesse.
Try it out for yourself on wordle.net