C# Integration Testing Example

While trying to learn .NET, I've been looking for various examples of code and testing practices. Jeffrey Palermo (aka "EZWeb guy") looks to be a good source, including this article on integration testing.

Agile Testing Blog

While looking for some Fitnesse tutorials, I found these tutorials on Grig Gheorghiu's Agile Testing Blog. The articles are Python oriented, but it's not hard to translate the examples to C#. Also, he had some good posts on test strategy that are applicable to any language.

Fitnesse and C#

I'm learning a lot of new stuff right now. I'm trying to quickly get up to speed in the .NET world with C#. In addition, I'm learning NUnit, a unit test framework for .NET, and I'm learning Fitnesse, which is a tool for writing requirements in terms of acceptance tests.

I found a tutorial by Cory Foy for using Fitnesse with .NET which would have got me up and running quickly except that Fitnesse, as of last week, was built with support for .NET 1.1, and I've got the latest Visual Studio 2005 which supports .NET 2.0. Fortunately, in the comments for Cory's post I found a reference to Jeff Mattfield's instructions for building Fitnesse for .NET 2.0. After doing the rebuild I was good to go.

Dallas Ruby Brigade

The Dallas Ruby Brigade had their first meeting the first Tuesday of March. Over 40 people showed up for that meeting, and it was great to see so much interest in Ruby (primarily because of Rails). I was unable to attend the April meeting, and I heard that attendance was less, but I plan on making involvement in this group a priority.

Monospaced fonts

While looking into configuring the font for Emacs, I found this long list of monospaced fonts.

UPDATE: The page is no longer available. According to a note on the site, the owner's pages were removed due to censorship. I don't remember looking at the rest of the site, so I don't know what the controversy was.

Emacs Command Summary

I'm in the process of taking up Emacs again. I like vim a lot, but I think I would benefit from becoming more proficient with Emacs. I found this command summary that I think will be helpful.

Tabs versus Spaces

This article advocates using spaces for indentation in source code, and shows how to configure emacs and vi to accomodate this practice.

The State of Ruby on Rails '05

Slides, MP3, and OGG files are available for this talk. By the way, I went to a meeting of the DFW Pragmatic Programmers group last night, and one of the people there, Adam Keys, had just got back from RubyConf. He said he thought it was very worthwhile, and he had a good time there.