Monthly Archives: May 2005

Testing with FIT

Posted on May 19, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

Jon Rowett has discoverd FIT. I’ll be talking about FIT at the London .NET user goup tonight. It is really easy for teams that start doing TDD to forget that acceptance/customer tests are part of the whole picture. It tends … Continue reading →

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London .NET User Group: Future Sessions

Posted on May 17, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

Just to keep you posted here are some future plans, so you can prepare your diaries Thursday 23rd June Benjamin Mitchell will be giving us an Indigo session In July (no date yet and TechEd clashes permitting) I was considering … Continue reading →

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System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send

Posted on May 17, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

Jan Tielens blog has the solution to this problem (with an update for WSE) if you ever see it (set the KeepAlive property to true). Blogs really are the new tech support.   From the notes to self department.  

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BBC experiments with podcasting

Posted on May 17, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

Auntie has decided to start experimenting with podcasting its radio content. A limited selection initially but considering how much radio content the BBC makes available right now it might grow if it proves to be a success. Interesting to see what kind … Continue reading →

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London .NET user group May 19th

Posted on May 16, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

Do not forget that we have our next meeting on May 19th. We will have sessions on: Ian Cooper: Application Testing with FIT Stephen Turner: IronPython (session description up) Nick Hines: NMock Pop on over to the London .NET user … Continue reading →

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UK .NET community developerdeveloperdeveloper day

Posted on May 16, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

Well DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Day is done. Thanks to all of you who came along to hear me speak about Data Access Patterns. Early feedback on the day and the first reviews suggest that I tried to cover too much in the session and … Continue reading →

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Microsoft listens on VS2005 Team system pricing

Posted on May 13, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

So MS really does appear to be listening. They have provided revised bundling and pricing information for Team System. The presence of Team Suite answers my concerns about there not being a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ offering. The inclusion of a limited licence … Continue reading →

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Bill Thompson drinks the Firefox kool-aid

Posted on May 10, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

So the BBC is now running a story about the Firefox vulnerablities. It is a reasonable story on the issue, informative without being hysterical, and balancing the stories that they would have run on IE. But their technology analyst Bill Thompson … Continue reading →

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BBC reports on FireFox coins

Posted on May 9, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

The BBC is running a story on the FireFox commemorative coins. What interests me about this story, especially in the light of my recent post about a new vulnerability in FireFox, is the assertion that OSS projecs are less-affected by security … Continue reading →

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May 19th London .NET user group session descriptions are up

Posted on May 9, 2005 by ianhammondcooper

The session descriptions are up. We will be looking at FIT, IronPython, and NMock so it is a great chance to look at some of the developments that are happening outside MS, but are still of use to .NET developers. … Continue reading →

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