Category Archives: Patterns and Practices

Materials from HDC09 – Testing With Mocks Talk

Below is a link to download the Testing With Mocks lightning round talk that I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference this last week. In order to get the samples to run you will need to have TypeMock Isolator installed. If you do not own a license you can download an evaluation for free here….

Auto-Creating Your DB with Active Record

During some recent development the team I was experiencing some friction with databases and developing. We were using Castle Active Record and we soon realized that as new people joined the team, left the team (rinse, wash, repeat), db changes occurred in the Active Record Schema etc, that the set up time to going was…

You Received an Error. So what. Deal with it.

   I was signing up for the ThoughtWorks Studio forum today and received this wonderful/insightful error. There has been tons of discussion around the interblogs about what to do with errors and how to notify the end user. Normally these posts end with commentary that says something like this:   “If a user gets an…