Monthly Archives: May 2010

Learning JavaScript again!

Learning JavaScript again!

Its time to learn JavaScript again folks. If you are a web developer like me there is no escape, you were using it in the past, you are using it more today and chances are that you will be using it a lot tomorrow. Web is getting highly interactive, and everyone is focusing on delivering web based systems that are close to behaviour as desktop applications. I think it makes perfect sense, there were times …

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Aspect Oriented (AOP) Logging

Aspect Oriented (AOP) Logging

Logging can be an aspect in your code that can be treated separately from you real business processing code. In most of the systems I worked on, we ended up putting logging code dispersed among our other code. This may not be a *very* bad practice but too many lines of repeat code ! Even if you have a nice logging framework where the mechanics of logging, its configuration, etc. are abstracted away, you still …

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Are you xUnit or MSTest?

Which unit testing framework do you use? There are many to pick from, most of the better ones are xUnit based and Visual Studio comes with its on testing framework. Personally I would stick with NUnit, because it works well and integrates well with ReSharper. Resharper/TestDriven.Net can run most of the unit testing frameworks including Microsoft’s. I was thinking about unit testing frameworks this morning (we wanted to pick one for our project, we as …

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