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• MN Practical Agility July Meeting

  At the MN Practical Agility user group earlier this month, I had the chance to present a very short Lightning Talk on Distributed Agile, and to participate a bit in the fishbowl discussions. It was a great opportunity for me to stretch by speaking in Read More... Posted Friday, July 16, 2010 7:48 AM from Scott Koland's blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, lean, Software Development

• Problem solving during the daily Scrum

  Is your project ‘doing’ agile? Well, if your daily stand up meetings are wasting the full teams’ time on problem solving activities, your not following the principles of an agile project. It is very easy to fall into this practice, to extend your daily Read More... Posted Sunday, June 13, 2010 3:59 PM from Scott Koland's blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum

• New DimeCast Is Up: Spark Partials Part 1

  A new DimeCast is up Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1 . In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. We will be taking a first look at partials and learn how we can setup our application to use Read More... Posted Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:29 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET, Agile

• Suspending Resharper 5

  For those of you who don't know, ReSharper is no longer a Visual Studio add-in. Previously if you needed to disable ReSharper for whatever reason you could do so in the Add-In Manager in Visual Studio. You no longer can. Disabling ReSharper is now termed Read More... Posted Friday, December 04, 2009 9:27 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, Productivity, .NET, Misc, Agile

• 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 Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:07 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools, TDD, Alt.Net, MVC, .NET, Testing, Events, Agile, Mocks, Patterns and Practices

• MDC 2009 Presentation

  For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this Read More... Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:46 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET, .NET, Agile

• Auditing with Castle Active Record

  Sometimes you need to audit everything you do in a transactional system. A lot of standards such as SOX and others state that you must audit your transactions. Doing this by hand inside of your system can (and usually is) a huge PITA . However, it is Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:00 PM from this.Reflect(); | 1 Comments Filed under: Design Patterns, Agile, Dependency Injection

• Finding App_Data Programmatically

  While writing some code I needed to be able to access the the App_Data directory in my ASPNET MVC app. Doing this usually involves a Server.MapPath, but this wont work for my unit test. Here’s how you can get around it:   var appDataPath = (string)AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData("DataDirectory") Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:20 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, MVC, .NET, Testing, Continuous Integration, Agile

• Featured in the Spaghetti Code Podcast

  I was recently interviewed on the Spaghetti Code Podcast, hosted by Microsoft’s Jeff Brand . Jeff and I talked about Mocking and how it relates to the development process, testing process and your day to day coding. You can download the files from the Read More... Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:51 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, .NET, Design Patterns, Agile, Mocks, Dependency Injection, Architecture

• My ReSharper Templates

  Recently when working with some co-workers I was flying through some menus and whipping out some code at a breakneck speed and a couple asked how I was doing it so quickly. Simple – Resharper’s live templates. I’m surprised I haven't posted these before, Read More... Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 5:17 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Productivity, Agile