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No multi-line lambdas in VB 2008
In case you’ve been under a rock recently, Visual Studio 2008 was released recently which supports a lot of functional capabilities like lambda expressions. I’ve been playing around with the lambda syntax in both C# and VB.NET recently and the addition to the languages is great. I did run into one thing that is still frustrating me in VB.NET, though.
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Successful first baby steps with Test Driven Development
I’m close to finishing up some work on one of my first true TDD projects and it has gone great for the most part. It did take a long time to get started though. The hardest part for me was fighting the urge to just open the designer and start dropping controls. Visual Studio really does guide developers towards a designer-centric approach which, after having done this for a few years, is very hard to resist. What I ended up doing was thinking about the problems that this application was going to solve and starting there. Make your tests define the problem area and move outward. The idea is that, if you can’t write your tests that show what your code will do, are you even ready to write the code yet?
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Graphical PowerShell in the new CTP of PowerShell 2.0
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Am I a CTP junkie or a Beta junkie?
I’m finding myself wondering if I’m a beta junkie or a CTP junkie.
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Charles Petzold to speak at the Memphis Day of .NET!
If you live anywhere around Memphis, be sure to be there on November 10. That is when the Memphis Day of .NET is scheduled. It was just announced today that Charles Petzold will be delivering the keynote as well! Charles has already posted about it on his blog. I’m incredibly jealous of all of you who are planning on being there - I had been planning to go but then when I found out when it was scheduled, I realized I had conflicts and wouldn’t be able to make it. Of the other speakers scheduled, I got the chance to meet both Keith Elder and Jeff Blankenburg at DevLink and I know their presentations will be great. I know that Colin and others have put a lot of hard work into making the Day of .NET great, so if you get the chance, go out there and show them your support!
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Insert lame joke about learning Boo today here
It is Halloween after all. It would be a great day to start learning Boo.
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The new version of Rhino.Mocks is awesome!
Ayende is the man. Seriously.
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"Manual testing is immoral"
I was reading through my feeds this morning and came across this gem of a paragraph:
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devLink 2007 Recap
My wife and I got back from Nashville last night and we had a great time. While she went around shopping at garage sales and hanging out with family, I got to spend some time with some great developers at devLink. The conference was incredible. I’m still amazed that they were able to do so much with only $50, but no complaints here :-)
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DevLink here I come!
I’m getting ready to start the drive to Nashville tonight for DevLink 2007. It will be my first real conference to attend and I’m really excited about it. It will also be fun to get to hang out in Nashville. If you’ll be at the conference, look me up!
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