boost::serialization coupling issue
I was evaluating boost::serialization today. Based on the design goals mentioned in the library’s introduction, I felt like boost::serialization would suit my needs. An interesting point is this : 8....
View Articlestd::unique_ptr semantics
Probably the best feature introduced by C++11 is std::unique_ptr. It will automagically make sure your dynamically allocated objects are deleted when you don’t use them anymore. In previous versions of...
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Game development irony
The guys at http://www.greenheartgames.com/ pulled a nice trick yesterday. Just the day after they released their game development simulation game Game Dev Tycoon, they also uploaded a cracked version...
View ArticleSo what’s wrong with XPathDocument ?
This post is the first in a series of posts related to XPathDocument and XPathNavigator. I will highlight the qualities and drawbacks of the standard .Net implementations and go through the design and...
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XPathDocument and whitespaces
Writing code is fun. At least it is for me. But sometimes it gets irritating. You know, you’re busy on something, you write the code, you know it’s right but it doesn’t work… You keep your focus on...
View ArticleTesting XPathNavigator
In my previous post about XPathNavigator, I explained in what circumstances the default implementation of XPathNavigator is troublesome. I went over the design of the class and highlighted how that...
View ArticleAsp.Net MVC: Testing your controller actions
I can’t say I like all the aspects of Microsoft ASP.Net MVC. But there is one aspect that I like though is the ability to unit test most of the components of your application. Standard ASP.Net did not...
View ArticleUnit test equality is not domain equality
I came across a question on stackoverflow concerning comparing object for equality in unit test. The poster basically wants to get rid of series of assertions like...
View ArticleUnit testing model validation with MVC’s DataAnnotations
In a previous post, I mentioned that model validation should be tested separately from controller logic. I will demonstrate a way of unit testing the validation of models implemented with...
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Annoyed with INotifyPropertyChanged?
Have you ever been annoyed with having to implement the cumbersome plumbing required for INotifyPropertyChanged ? Well, I have. So I tried to find a way to make authoring bindable objects better. The...
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