Reality Loop

February 10, 2010
.Net Quick Tip: Programmatic Check if a PDF Reader is installed

A possibility to programmatically check in .Net (with C#) if a pdf-reader is installed: [TestMethod] public void CheckPdfReaderAvailable() { RegistryKey key = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(".pdf"); Assert.IsNotNull(key)...
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February 03, 2010
Swarm Programming - Scaling Pair Programming

This is another tidbit from Dan North at the parkbench panel discussion on the Agile Testing, Specifications and BDD exchange. If I remember correctly the topic of the discussion was about the topic if software engineering is really an engineer...
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February 02, 2010
How to debug your code with cuke4duke

Cuke4duke is a ATDD/BDD tool for the JVM. The tool is based on Cucumber and uses JRuby to execute. Out of the box cuke4duke offers three main ways to execute: Ant, Maven or cuke4duke-commandline. But all of those three approaches are a bit tr...
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February 01, 2010
Podcast: Scrum in Fixed Price Projects

In the first episode of TechTalk's podcast Christian Hassa interviews Mitch Lacey about the applicability of Scrum in fixed price projects. They talk about common misconceptions, pitfalls and dangers and how to avoid them. Mitch also presents ...
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January 27, 2010
Lessons Learned from Java EE

Lessons Learned from Java EE is an interesting presentation by Rod Johnson. Here the most interesting/provoking points: The fallacy of love for complexity: "No pain no gain" does not apply for software. Powerful solutions do not have to be co...
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