Month: February, 2005

The Onion | Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

16 February, 2005 (20:13) | General | No comments

PORTLAND, OR—Project manager Ron Butler left behind a 48-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining his tragic decision to commit suicide, coworkers reported Tuesday.
… too funny… read more

NUnitForms : An NUnit extension for testing Windows Forms applications.

15 February, 2005 (20:49) | .NET, .NET Tools | 2 comments

Just when I was getting into a book called “Effective GUI Test Automation” by Sybex , I promptly came across this NUnit Forms.
NUnitForms is an NUnit extension for unit and acceptance testing of Windows Forms applications.
Now it is easy to write automated tests for your Windows Forms classes.
Your NUnit tests can open […]

Scott is a fount of useful information

15 February, 2005 (20:47) | General | No comments

Scott Hanselman points out his experience with MS Fingerprint Reader. It sounds really cool. I gotta get me one of these.
And secondly, he documented his work on a small project called “FormattableObject“. Seems to use one of those primary caveats when building your own objects - namely always provide a meaningful overwrite for the […]

A small Epiphany of sorts

12 February, 2005 (20:51) | General, .NET | 3 comments

Maybe I’m getting cynical in my old age but here it goes:
Businesses are often very dynamic entities. Hence there is a great demand that a custom piece of software grows and adapts. And therein lies the rub.
On the one hand you have an environment that absolutely stands to benefit from a line-of-business […]