tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78205309988339905132012-01-23T12:43:47.622-08:00Another programming blog, this time by David Craft.David Crafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05571714270796700086noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820530998833990513.post-25333174562669832642012-01-22T11:02:00.000-08:002012-01-22T11:11:03.559-08:00

Introduction In my current role at an agile company we work in pairs and following XP principles, one of which is TDD. I’ve been following TDD for a few years now and one thing I think that helps me when I come back to old tests and helps other developers who are new to a project is when a test has a "context". Example of a test with context class When correcting a customers address with no

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In my previous post I talked about how one of the main problems with NServiceBus is the learning curve to become familiar with all the setup and configuration options. As NServiceBus is an Open Source project, you are able to to download the code. Once you’ve done this in a few simple steps you can start stepping into the source code as if it's your own code. Which makes solving some of the more

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I’ve been doing a lot of work with NServiceBus recently. I have to say it’s an amazing framework, saving my company hours and hours as we didn’t have to write out own Publish and Subscribe framework over the top of MSMQ. One of the tough parts about the framework is the learning curve to become familiar with all the setup and configuration options. Hence this post, I thought I’d share some of

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I've been writing a lot more JavaScript recently, sometime's following other peoples code and sometime's writing my own from scratch. A lot of this JavaScript has been done using jQuery. As most of our development team was new to JavaScript the code quickly became unstructured and messy. There had to be a better way. I was really pleased to discover that it didn't have to be this way and jQuery

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Introduction Recently I've been getting into Test Driven Development and one useful thing that helps me out with this is making use of the Inversion of control principle. This makes it easy to pass a Mock version of all my services for the purposes of testing. However this presents a challenge with the standard MVC Controller Factory. It only supports the parameterless contructors. However,

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Introduction So you've installed Solr 1.4 and you've managed to get some data indexed. Now you're ready to have some fun with faceting. Faceting is basically just filtering the results of a search without effecting the relevance score. Sites such as ebay use faceting to help narrow down the results of a generic search like TV, to give you options such as 32" wide-screen LCD etc.   It makes for a

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Introduction I was looking around for some information on how best to add the AssemblyVersion to an MVC site. In the end I thought I'd do it my self as it can't be too difficult. It wasn't and I've included how to do it in this post to help other people out.Adding a Helper Class to MVC projectThe first thing to do is add a Helper class to your existing project. I decided not to use a namespace so

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IntroductionI've been using Blogger as my blogging engine for a couple of weeks. I've been quite impressed at how easy it makes it to update your blogs look and feel and how free you are with the HTML and semantic layout of the pages. One thing that seemed to be missing was allowing developers to copy and paste code into their blogs and allow other users to copy and paste the code from the blog

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Introduction I created this guide, so you don't have to go through the 2 days of hell I had to go through. Mainly trawling countless websites that all seemed to contradict them selves.. However this is how i managed to get LocalSolr working on my Solr Server. Enjoy Prerequisites Before you start using LocalSolr, you'll need to install solr. You can following my guide on installing Solr 1.4 on

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IntroductionI've been spending a lot of time using Solr recently.. So here's my guide to installing it on windows XP Steps Please follow the following steps to get Solr 1.4 running on a windows box: Download Solr 1.4 from here Download the latest Java JDK Select Java SE Development Kit (JDK) jdk-6u17-windows-i586.exeInstalling Java SE Development Kit (JDK)You can leave everything checked if

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