Month: January, 2009

Error Handling and the Message Repackaging Anti-Pattern

January 16, 2009 23:28 | Programming | 2 comments

I currently have an interesting responsibility at work.  I am functioning as the manager and single-point-of-contact for a team in India working on imporving the codebase for one of our more important ASP.Net sites.  I know what you’re thinkin.  Did I say interesting?  I meant infuriating.  At the very least I should get a good [...]

Re: What is Unit Testing?

January 15, 2009 01:04 | ALT.Net, Programming | No comments

In a post last month Zachariah Young posts that 
… unit tests … verify that the business logic is correct.  I believe that for it to be unit testing it has to use a testing framework like nunit or junit.
I say thar be dragons!  Tying your understanding of unit testing to a specific tool allows you to neatly sidestep [...]

New Years Resolutions

January 1, 2009 22:19 | Album | No comments

Ok, so just like everyone else in the universe I’m posting some resolutions on my blog.  The first and most obvious if you look at the dates of my previous posts is to blog more.  A heck of a lot more.  I’m aiming for once a week.  Nothing intense, I’m no Steve Yegge and I [...]