Tag Archives: software-development

What is the Cost of Not Doing Things?

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Geoff Lane

We’re really good at measuring the cost of some things. We’re good at measuring the cost of a new computers for everyone on the team, we’re good at measuring the cost per hour of a resource on a project and … Continue reading →

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Using Quartz.NET, Spring.NET and NHibernate to run Scheduled Tasks in ASP.NET

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Running scheduled tasks in web applications is not normally a straightforward thing to do. Web applications are built to respond to requests from users and respond to that request. This request/response lifecycle doesn’t always match well to a long running … Continue reading →

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Mocking .NET Objects with NUnit

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

NUnit is my Unit Testing tool of choice for .NET development. Microsoft provides a unit testing framework but it only works with some higher-end versions of Visual Studio. They’re so similar that it’s almost ridiculous that Microsoft created their own … Continue reading →

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Understanding Domain Specific Languages as Jargon

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are the idea of creating syntaxes that model a very specific problem domain. Domain Specific Languages are not a new concept. Some people call them ‘little languages’. The Unix world has a bunch of little languages. … Continue reading →

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.NET Makes Me Mad (Generics and Collections edition)

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ok, so I’ve decided I need to rant a little bit about .NET. This ends up in part being, “What I like about Java that I don’t like about C#”. I think this is fair though. It’s not like C# … Continue reading →

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Hibernate Query Translators

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I’ve recently been doing some performance testing and tuning on an application. It makes use of Hibernate for the data access and ORM and Spring to configure and wire together everything. As I was looking at all of the configuration … Continue reading →

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Continuous Integration Revisited

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I had a chance to install and play with JetBrain’s new Team City beta today. Team City at its most basic is a Continuous Integration server. Continuous Integration (CI) systems are used to help manage a team’s software development process. … Continue reading →

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