Archive for June, 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...

    How to publish your own book

    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...

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  • 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...

    Database TDD talk this Thursday in London

    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...

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  • 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...

    Clean your HTML inputs or the dog-eaters will get to you

    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...

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  • 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...

    New features in the upcoming FitNesse release

    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...

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  • 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...

    Wordle: a cool way to summarise your texts

    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...

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