While checking out more ideas for my data generation tool/app/libraries I stumbled on this video of a presentation by Ben Hall. The presentation “DDD7 Session Video – Microsoft Pex – The Future of unit testing?” is a great introduction to the PEX framework/toolset. If you write unit tests, or are trying to get started writing... Continue reading →

On the tail of my recent additions to the data generator app I?ve been building I fell right into a need for the middle name to be generated along with standard names. Here?s how I went about fixing this situation up with a sling at TDD & such. The first thing I did was a... Continue reading →

I jumped in head first to get things updated. Went after the ASP.NET MVC Engine, grabbed the toolkit for Silverlight, made sure the Silverlight SDK was updated, got the Deep Zoom Composer, Blend installed, made sure SP1 was installed, grabbed the WPF toolkit, and? ok, at this point I lost track. I think my home... Continue reading →

Part 1, Part 2. Now it is time finally for the random name generation. I’ve gotten everything into place, so it’s just a matter of grabbing the names and randomizing among them. Just as a check, after Part 2 was finished I had a total of 98,572 rows of data, or simply 98,572 names. Many... Continue reading →

REST Services are intended to have clean URIs. So when Microsoft started pushing their REST over WCF Services I thought, “SWEET”, lemme get some of that. While working with these services though a problem arose, “ http://www.soemthing.com/someservice.svc” ; is NOT a very clean REST URI. I just don’t dig nonsense like this so I went... Continue reading →