I'm having this odd problem when I use Visual Studio 2008 in a multi-monitor situation. Should anyone have any stories on how they could fix this issue or prevent it from happening, I’m all ears. I’ve got two monitors. One of them is my laptop screen, another is a monitor connected via ... [More]

Mildly silly and maybe making too many assumptions though it is, I worked up a little extension method to generically evaluate (and return) the Data property of a JsonResult class. Makes life a little easier when testing JsonResult action methods on controller instances. Helps during testing, for... [More]

I’ve been using [hacking at] NHibernate as my main ORM choice for just over a year and I’ve been exceptionally happy with the growing number of projects to augment it’s functionality, especially the Fluent NHibernate and LINQ-to-NHibernate contributions. NH isn’t exactly a si... [More]

I’ve been relatively silent over the past few months, but it isn’t for any good reason aside from that I’ve been extremely, extremely, busy. So busy that I wasn’t able to maintain – or even repair – my blog. I’ve spent a few hours in the past week making sur... [More]

I had a great time last night speaking on [what I call] composite web application development in Asheville, NC last night. Thanks a lot to the group for allowing me the opportunity to provide the presentation. Hope you guys got some inspiration from it and that it'll aid in your development efforts ... [More]

Today I gave a short presentation today at Microsoft Charlotte on using Unity and ASP.NET MVC together. I promised to post the code and presentation, so this is the requisite blog post doing that very thing. Thanks a lot to Brian Hitney, Chad Brooks, Glen Gordon, and the Southern Fried Road Show cre... [More]

I read an article once about a lifehack for balancing your work and procrastination. I've looked high and low for the link to no avail, so sorry for the lack of deeper information. The lifehack outlined a solution for the computer-staring workers - programmers, analysts, and so on - who are faced wi... [More]

In Part 1 of this series I demonstrated how QUnit can be used to test JsonResult action methods in ASP.NET MVC applications. Part 2 will take the idea a little further by showing an example of how QUnit can be used to inspect potential user-input areas on your MVC forms and to use those values in te... [More]

One of the problems that face any web developer is their ability to properly test the GUI components of their sites. A few options exist, specifically Watin, with varying degrees of success. Now that I've been experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC framework I've modified a good deal of my GUI work in s... [More]

I think there exists some value in a direct mapping between your software's system roles, the functions provided to each role, and the tests one writes to verify that each type of user can perform each task with the same desired outcome. Albeit a simplistic (or trite) view of the process of creating... [More]