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 version.
(See one of my previous posts for more information on Automating NUnit with MSBuild.) In [...]

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. Grep, awk, sed, lex, and yacc all exhibit features of these domain specific languages. They [...]

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# and .NET were developed in a vacuum. It’s not like C# is the first Object [...]

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 and came upon the fact that we were using the ClassicQueryTranslatorFactory. The job of the [...]

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. Every time a developer checks in code, the CI server will check out the code [...]