An Exercise in Wordpress Integration, or Why Wordp...

I'd like to prefix my upcoming rant with the fact that Wordpress is good at what it does: making basic blogs and publishing content. I use it, many other people use it, it works. Heck, I'm using it right now. But from a technical standpoint, Wordpress sucks. I'm going to relate my experience here trying write a quick function to store post output to a file, to be used by a separate application on the same server. I...

.Net Mocking Frameworks – Capability Compari...

I have a couple years of experience of TDD under my belt, but it's only recently that I've felt like I am a relatively decent practitioner of it.  I attribute this to forcing myself to take the plunge into mocking, and the knowledge of patterns and loosely-coupled design that I've gained from it. You see, I work on a pretty large and complex ASP.Net webforms product, and tests were introduced late into the development cycle...

Grandmaster Indeed

Catching up on my reading tonight and I ended up reading this post from end to end. It's a fairly interesting article, and takes a very long road to rehash the old adages of "if at first you don't succeed" and "practice makes perfect" set against a background of nerdly delights and the occasional introspective advisement. However, the form and prose of the post is blogging at it's finest. Just the perfect number of visual...