Archive for October, 2008

  • I frequently get this question about unit or acceptance testing: If sending e-mail or some other sort of notifications is required by the business process, do we test this and how? This arrived again yesterday from a reader, in the following form: …and one component of our application is email...

    How to test e-mail notifications properly

    I frequently get this question about unit or acceptance testing: If sending e-mail or some other sort of notifications is required by the business process, do we test this and how? This arrived again yesterday from a reader, in the following form: …and one component of our application is email...

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  • It was really great to talk about Castle Windsor today in front of a full room. Thanks very much to all of you who showed up and especially thanks to Mike Hadlow for participating in this event. Mike will probably post his source code and powerpoint slides on his site...

    Dependency injection with Castle Windsor: Source code and links

    It was really great to talk about Castle Windsor today in front of a full room. Thanks very much to all of you who showed up and especially thanks to Mike Hadlow for participating in this event. Mike will probably post his source code and powerpoint slides on his site...

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  • I’m getting this question very often from web site readers, and I’ve decided to put the answer online because it deals with a crucial misconception about FitNesse and signals a really bad usage practice. The question appears in different shapes, mostly around templating or simplifying complex scripts. This is the...

    Using Fitnesse pages as templates

    I’m getting this question very often from web site readers, and I’ve decided to put the answer online because it deals with a crucial misconception about FitNesse and signals a really bad usage practice. The question appears in different shapes, mostly around templating or simplifying complex scripts. This is the...

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  • Mike Hadlow and I will present the principles of dependency injection, show how to implement them with Castle Windsor and then talk about some more advanced stuff such as Windsor facilities and implementing custom functionality with them. This session is aimed at .NET developers at all levels, it is free...

    Castle Windsor talk this Thursday in London

    Mike Hadlow and I will present the principles of dependency injection, show how to implement them with Castle Windsor and then talk about some more advanced stuff such as Windsor facilities and implementing custom functionality with them. This session is aimed at .NET developers at all levels, it is free...

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  • During the Coherence Special Interest Group meeting in London, Brian Oliver from Oracle yesterday announced the start of the Coherence Incubator project. Coherence Incubator is a new online repository of projects that provides reference implementation examples for commonly used design patterns and integration solutions based on Oracle Coherence.

    Oracle opens Coherence Incubator

    During the Coherence Special Interest Group meeting in London, Brian Oliver from Oracle yesterday announced the start of the Coherence Incubator project. Coherence Incubator is a new online repository of projects that provides reference implementation examples for commonly used design patterns and integration solutions based on Oracle Coherence.

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