AgileObjects

NCrunch is a Visual Studio add-in which runs your tests while you work so you know if you've broken anything, as well as providing coverage indicators in the IDE and coverage metrics on demand. It recently went commercial, and time is running out for the free version I've been using for the last couple of months. From my experiences using NCrunch I'm going to let it expire, and go about my business without it. Here's why.

Automated Testing

I've been doing a fair amount of UI testing using WatiN recently – here's some extension methods I've found useful.

Automated Testing

JQuery unobtrusive validation can be used to show an error message when the user inputs too many characters or a numeric value which is too big. On a recent project we wanted to use input's maxlength attribute to prevent a user from entering too many characters rather than cure the problem with an error message - here's how we did it.

JavaScript JQuery FluentValidation

I recently had to make a set of web pages restore their state when the user arrived on them after clicking the browser's back button. I used JQuery's ajax function to get the data, but even with JQuery's cache: false setting and MVC's OutputCache attribute, Chrome insisted on retrieving it from its cache. Here's how I solved the problem.

JavaScript JQuery Ajax

For the last two years, I’ve ordered the Nimble Pros Software Craftsmanship calendars, which use ‘motivational poster’ style pictures to depict various software practices and principles worth keeping in mind. Here’s one of the walls at work, where I’ve got the calendars cut up and displayed for easy reference:

Programming Practices Patterns