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Installing FitNesse as a service.

Found this blog about installing FitNesse as a windows service.

RESTing in WCF

Rob Bagby created a wonderful blog and screencast series on REST in WCF. Earlier, in 2008, Rob Skonnard, of Pluralsight, also provided a guide to designing and building RESTful web services with WCF 3.5 featured on MSDN. Another series on REST is on The .NET Endpoint by the .NET and AppTabric team which showcased the technology in .Net 4.0. REST's (REpresentational State Transfer) point of view is that a real web service is one designed to embrace the web from the ground up. I find REST's architectural style very interesting.

Silverlight 4 development on VS2010 RC

I was enjoying going through the Silverlight 4 and MEF videos of Mike Taulty at Channel 9 and immediately fell in love with MEF. I like the declarative way of exporting and importing parts and the ease of composing them into a working application. But before the love affair blossomed into something I found out that Silverlight 4 along with MEF do not work and is not supported in VS2010 RC. It really broke my heart. I mean, how could these MS people excites you so much with something great and leave you #$@!@! Anyway, read the story here. I was about to remove VS2010 RC from my laptop when a speck of hope came. I was desperately googling Silverlight 4 and MEF development in VS2010 RC and after about a week, there in the list of google's search list is Dr. Z's blog sharing an interesting blog how to enable Silverlight 4 in VS2010 RC. He actually just found the hack from Andrew Veresov who translated the work of Alex Sorokoletov. So, thanks to these guys. And happy silverlighting!

ATDD, FIT and FItNesse Training

Just finished conducting training and coaching atdd, fit and fitnesse in Amsterdam. It was a great experience. Fit provides a medium of communication between business people and developers to speak a common language and express business rules that both understand. Ward Cunningham in his book Fit for Development said that two major interconnected tasks essential to the value and quality of software application is helping to think about and communicate through concrete examples of what is needed in a software application; and automatically testing, from a business perspective, that the application is doing what is expected and continues to do so as it grows in functionality. ATDD with FIT and FitNesse are a perfect combination to execute these tasks.

Great MSDN Articles

Articles that are must-read for silverlight devs:
1. Drill into .Net Framework internals to see how the CLR creates runtime objects.
2. Build LOB Enterprise Apps with Silverlight Part I
3. Build LOB Enterprise Apps with Silverlight Part II

I'll be adding more...

Globe, Smart or Sun

Ever wonder which cellphone number belongs to which network? The fourth digit is the key. Look at the following table:

So for example a number 0917-344-3433 belongs to a Globe network and 0918-443-3224 belongs to a Smart network. So if you have one of those unlimited call on the same network subscription make sure you know the correct information.

Starting ATDD

I found a great site that provides useful tutorials in understanding Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Enjoy learning ATDD here.