One thing using Moq [http://code.google.com/p/moq/] always bugged me. When needing to verify some method call, Moq provides a Verify-metod on the Mock object: So, what’s wrong with this piece of code? In fact nothing (if you ask me). The “problem” is the error message…
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to switch from CoffeeScript [http://coffeescript.org/] to TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] on the project I’m working on at eBay. In my opinion, TypeScript makes a lot of a lot more sense when working with web applications in .NET. These are…
Another year of great experiences has come to pass. Just like last year [https://thomasardal.com/2011-retrospect/], so much has happened during the last twelve months. Indeed, this year I had some events in my life which definitely dampened my personal projects. In January I was no-moted [http://www.urbandictionary.…
I had a fun task a couple of weeks ago, simplifying some code that another dude wrote. It’s always more fun to optimize the hell out of other people’s code, right? 🙂 The problem code was pretty much a proof of concept and no considerations about good or bad…
Nine months ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts that were a bit different from what I usually write. In the meantime I have received good feedback on the posts and therefore decided to write this follow-up. So here it goes: 5 more tips to optimize your time. Contents…
I recently attended a course organized by Mark Seemann [https://twitter.com/ploeh] at my workplace. Among other topics, the course involved advanced usage of AutoFixture [http://autofixture.codeplex.com/], a framework that I’ve loved using for a couple of years now. AutoFixture always did a good job of…
I sometimes (not often) find myself needing a non-generic version of the CreateAnonymous extension-method forAutoFixture [http://autofixture.codeplex.com/]. Usually when needing a test value, you do something like this: int someInt = new Fixture().CreateAnonymous<int>(); The code works for 99% of all tests. Now and then I…
I’ve tweeted about HippoValidator. I’ve written a bit about it here on the blog. I’ve also told some friends and colleagues about it. However, I never released an official introduction of the product. So, here it is: Introducing hippovalidator.com [http://www.hippovalidator.com]. What is HippoValidator?…
This article gives a comprehensive introduction to the MSBuild tool. Contents * 1 MSBuild Basics * 2 Properties * 3 Items * 4 Conditions * 5 Frequently Used Tasks * 6 Custom MSBuild Tasks * 7 Generic Targets * 8 Property functions * 9 Links * 10 Notify me when the book comes out MSBuild Basics .NET 2.0 introduced…
It’s been 7 months since the last post [https://thomasardal.com/yslow-rules-12-avoid-redirects/] in my YSlow series. So why did I stop blogging about performance optimization? Well, actually there are two answers to that question. First is because of my passion for unit-testing, which I started blogging about at pretty…