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Speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2010

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Thanks to all the voters who voted for my wildcard proposal on Entity Framework 4.0, I will be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2010, again. Last year, the whole wildcard thingy was a bit fuzzy, but this year, the organization has gone through great lengths to seriously include us wildcar...

March 12, 2010

We are looking for new colleagues!

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Even though Aviva Solutions is still a relatively young company and we too have ‘noticed’ the changes in the economic climate, but we’re still growing steadily. Consequently, we are actively looking for medior and senior developers that are willing to join us in the journey of becoming the best M...

March 12, 2010

Fluent Assertions 1.1 has been released

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It’s only a few days ago since we released the first version of Fluent Assertions, and we already have a new release. The reason for this is that the first release was just the public release of an internal set of classes that we’ve been using for a year or so. But this week, we've worked hard t...

March 5, 2010

User Stories, a different story altogether

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My Dutch article on User Stories in Team Foundation Server 2010 is now available online at the SDN site. Read it over here. I will translate it to English soon.

March 3, 2010

ALM Practices Part 3: Unit Testing & TDD

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What is it? In essence, Test Driven Development (TDD) is a practice in which the interface and the behavior of a component is designed while writing a unit test. In other words, you typically start writing a test case and define the exact members, behavior and names on the fly. In fact, the wor...

March 2, 2010

Fluent Assertions released on CodePlex

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About a year ago, me and some other colleagues started to create a simple framework for verifying the outcome of unit tests in a more natural way. Martin Opdam already blogged about this in June and since then we have been adding some minor features. A few weeks ago I discovered the much more po...

March 1, 2010