I sometimes find myself doing extension methods for the HtmlHelper class in ASP.NET MVC. I like HtmlHelper, but I don’t really dig when the methods generate HTML. This is what partial views are for, right? I usually add small utility methods related to a single view on the…
This is the second and last part of my blog post titled 10 Tips to Optimize Your Time. If you haven’t read part 1, go ahead [https://thomasardal.com/10-tips-to-optimize-your-time-part-12/]! Only plan one visit every weekend if possible We have a large family. Both my wife and I are…
A couple of people have asked me how I find time to do all of my hobby projects while having a house, a wife, a son, family and friends all at the same time. The answers I gave inspired me to write this blog post. While I’m extremely bad…
I don’t think I ever got to announcing NuGetFeed.org [http://nugetfeed.org/]. NuGet Feed is a great extension to NuGet [http://nuget.org/], which most .NET developers should know by now. With NuGetFeed.org you will be able to follow your favorite NuGet package releases with a RSS…
Let’s face it, it doesn’t make sense to keep and maintain unit tests not executed on a continuous basis. In my previous post [https://thomasardal.com/an-introduction-to-qunit/], I looked at a unit test framework for JavaScript called QUnit [http://docs.jquery.com/QUnit]. While commonly used unit test…
One of the areas that I never really dug into is unit testing JavaScript code. I have a background as a backend developer and for me, NUnit has been sufficient for years. During the last couple of years, I started implementing a few websites and also switched my working place…
During the last 6 years, I’ve preached unit testing to my colleagues and people attending my test-driven development [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development] courses. The set of tools I’ve used for this purpose have been stable, for the most part. This blog post is an attempt…
I found myself repeatable adding the same Live Template to R# over and over again: The unit-test template. This template adds a method with a method name starting withCanas well as the arrange/act/assert comments, which I’m pretty much in love with. Each time I re-install my old…
Inspired by [http://mookid.dk/oncode/archives/1906] my old colleague Mookid [http://twitter.com/#!/mookid8000], I want to also share what I’ve been working on this year. It has been a crazy and busy year. Even though my wife and I had a son last year, I’ve…
I’ve used mock as long as I remember (pretty much). I’m a big fan of the whole dependency injection movement and make heavily use of IoC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control] containers. Especially constructor injection turns out to be the correct approach for almost every…