Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Back to basics: Using interface vs. abstract class

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While teaching a course on design patterns I was asked by one of the participants when would I use an interface and when to use an abstract...
Monday, December 12, 2016

The 5 D’s of creating software

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Warning: Do not take the following post too seriously The software development world is governed by many forces beyond our control. There...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Upcoming speaking engagements: Vancouver here I come!

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At the beginning of December I’m going to speak at ConFoo Vancouver . I spoke at ConFoo Montreal in the past and I look forward to speakin...
Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Using conditional breakpoints to filter exceptions during debugging

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With every new version the C# language has grown and improved. The last version so a.k.a C# 6 has brought some of my favorite features. And ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Faking DateTime using Microsoft Fakes seems to be broken

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It seems as if causing DateTime.Now to return another value has become the demo to show when demoing an unconstrained Mocking framework. It’...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

New Pluralsight course: C++ Unit Testing Fundamentals Using Catch

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Last week my very first Pluralsight course went live! My course on unit testing in C++ using CATCH is ready for your viewing pleasure. I...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

An open letter to conference’s organizers

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I got my first international speaking opportunity in 2012. After sending countless proposals and getting just as many rejects I got an email...