Reality Loop

January 12, 2011
Tidbit: Lines of code

I just stumbled over two interesting tidbits about source code sizes: According to this presentation the sources for the Windows operating system contain about 60 million lines of code and the sources for VisualStudio contain about 480 million l...
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January 09, 2011
Hanselminutes 248: Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy

Check out the Hanselminutes Episode with Gojko, Aslak and me about Executable Specifications, BDD, ATDD, Cucumber and SpecFlow. I felt like a dwarf among giants with Gojko and Aslak on the line. However I had the feeling that the conversation was...
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January 08, 2011
Quotes of the Week: Motivation

I love my work. Yet put me on a team with unclear goals, little collective responsibility, arguing, and infighting, and I'll wake up dreading going into work.- Energizing Work by James ShoreOn the morning of his two year anniversary at the cubicle...
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January 03, 2011
My favorite software development books of 2010

Last year I read a lot of software development books. Among them were many upcoming Manning titles for which I regularly do reviews. These are my favorite software development books of 2010: Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests This b...
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December 17, 2010
SpecFlow 1.5 introducing Step Intellisense in VisualStudio

SpecFlow is aiming at providing pragmatic BDD for .NET.SpecFlow 1.5 comes with Intellisense for step-completion in VisualStudio 2010:When you are writing feature files, you get Intellisense after Given/When/Then/And/But keywords. As usual you can...
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