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Planning the Windows 8 Cookbook
I'm currently at Microsoft's Build conference and we're all receiving a Surface RT tablet. That means it's a great moment to talk about my plans for the Windows 8 Cookbook. I know, I know, it's a cheesy name so just be aware that I'm open to better suggestions. Since Silverlight is mostly dead, I...
A weekend in Emerald City
This week is Microsoft Build 2012. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s Microsoft largest and most important annual event for sharing the future of the company’s plans around Windows, Windows Phone and their development platforms. Since with most trips to the US, it’s usually cheaper to ta...
Fluent Assertions 2.0 is out of the beta phase
After six weeks of beta testing, it is time to remove the beta mark from Fluent Assertions 2.0. Since the beta was released, we fixed several little bugs that you won’t notice, but the original release notes still apply. Release 2.0 adds a lot of new features and improvements, most noticeably the...
Asserting object graph equivalence using Fluent Assertions 2.0
As promised in the announcement about version 2.0, I will finally explain the details behind the new extension methods for asserting that two object graphs are equivalent. For the record, these new extension methods are going to supersede the old ShouldHave() method somewhere in a next ...
Slides and demo code for my SpecFlow/WaTiN talk
Yesterday I did a 2-hour talk on getting the most out of UI automation, particularly using SpecFlow and WaTiN. You can find the slides down here and the demo code at GitHub.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.s...
The Best Articles and Blog Posts of August 2012
Here are some of the highlights of the blog posts, articles and whitepapers I’ve read this month. In two short blog posts, Jimmy Bogard explains seven misconceptions of CQRS and Event Sourcing, and also warns us of the impact of eventual consistency on the user experience. Read about the many ...