Entries tagged with best practices - Channel 9

MSDN Flash Podcast 009 – Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding Dojos

Eric Nelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:28:00 GMT

This podcast is an interview with Tom Quinn in which we start off discussing his article on Test Doubles before moving on to Coding Dojos and finishing with a spot of “has software development really improved in the last 20 years”. The interview starts 7 minutes in after I complete a brief summary of the newsletter.

Show Notes:

“Boot to VHD” – very cool stuff.
New Doloto tool for AJAX optimisation
32 Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Videos
Last newsletter Poll on “How did your software team score in the Joel Test?”. 45% of you scored 6 or below ... hmmm, disappointing :-)
This editions Poll looks at how we approach unit testing code
UK South Scrum User Group
Rhino Mocks, Typemock, NMock and Moq
Tom summarises the first Coding Dojo he run
http://southamptoncodingdojo.ning.com/ sign up details. Next is on Sep 24th in Southampton.
Summary of Test Doubles, Fakes, Stubs, Dummies and Mocks from the work of the folks at ThoughtWorks

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ARCast.TV - Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast!

Bob Familiar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:19:00 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews Jeromy Carriere on the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method (LAAAM), a fast and efficient way to make good architectural decisions that are aligned with the needs of your business. Making good architectural decisions early in the software development lifecycle helps reduce project risk and ensures that precious time and energy isn't wasted delivering solutions that miss the mark. This is critical in our ever-accelerating software development world. The most unique characteristic of LAAAM is its focus on defining what quality means for a given system or product. We all want to create high-quality products, but LAAAM helps us go further in determining the aspects of quality that are important to the stakeholders for a given system. The "-ilities" are commonly used, coarsely, to talk about architectural quality; however, LAAAM won't let us simply say "my system has to be scalable" or "I need flexibility". Instead, LAAAM forces us to be: a) precise in the kinds of scalability and flexibility that are important; and b) prioritize these quality attributes so that appropriate tradeoff decisions can be made. LAAAM produces a set of artifacts that represent a rigorous, rational decision making process. These artifacts are extremely valuable in justifying and communicating architectural decisions, since it's rarely possible (or even desirable) to have every stakeholder involved in every conversation. The LAAAM artifacts give us a way to express the reasoning that went into a given decision, with a foundation in the definition of quality for a system. LAAAM has been successfully applied to make decisions large and small at Microsoft, Fidelity and VistaPrint. LAAAM draws its roots from the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method developed at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

geekSpeak recording - SharePoint Wikis with David Mann

Brian Johnson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:38:00 GMT

For this geekSpeak, David Mann, who was recently on geekSpeak in August 2008, returns for some more engaging discussion on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. This time, David enlightens us on best practices for implementing wiki sites using SharePoint Server.

You can find a list of resources for this talk here.

Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Glen Gordon and Dani Diaz.

Original Broadcast Date: October 8, 2008

To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Free eBook: Foundations of Better Programming

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:06:00 GMT

Karl Seguin recently released a great free 79 page eBook for .NET developers covering design patterns, unit testing, mock objects, memory management, object relational mapping, and more. Get it while it's free!