Archive for October, 2007

Unit Testing in SQL Server – Overview

Ok, so here’s the first in a series of a home grown implementation of Unit Testing SQL server code.

I’m not talking about using Visual Studio Team Edition for Professionals, like Jeff recommends… but I’ll try to provide a general approach to testing your SQL code, particularly stored procedures (sprocs). Read the rest of this entry »

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TDD – A Workout Promise

Ok… I’ve had enough. Uncle Bob nailed it: Why don’t we clean our code? When we see an ugly mass of code that we know is going to cause of problems, our first reaction is “This needs to be cleaned up.” Our second reaction is: “If I touch this code I’ll be spending the next two weeks trying to get it to work again.” We don’t clean code because we are afraid we’ll break it.

I promise to Read the rest of this entry »

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Windows 2000 & iTunes 7.x – Can’t we all just get along?

From the self-serving, bad memory department… next time you’re running Windows 2000 and iTunes 7.x (or later) starts up with a BLACK canvas and outlined text, you need to go get the GDIPLUS redistributable from Microsoft.

Now, if I can only convince somebody in corporate that DirectX 9 is required for Excel 2003… but, until then, no Cover Flow.

Cheers.

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