Monday 03 November 2008 at 08:33 am
MbUnit rocks. Perhaps other unit test tools for .net rock as well, but right now I'm really happy with MbUnit and how easy it is to work with. Plus it has some killer features. I'm really impressed with the combinatorial test. I have no idea whether other xUnit frameworks have this feature, but in MbUnit it's really easy to impliment, and really powerful. Everyone doing unit testing should understand the possibilites of the combinatorial test, to improve the real-world coverage of thier test suites, regardless of the platform and toolsets you're working with.
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Saturday 01 November 2008 at 2:12 pm
Its long, but really very cool. This guy is the lead for the mono project, which is an open source implimentation of .net. Microsoft actually gave him a slot at their biggest developer conference of the year.
One of the really cool bits is something he shows in the middle of the presentation where he talks about the issues that game developers have with the speed of scripting AI in their apps (typically lua). They can now imbed mono into their apps, and get the features of a fast-performing strongly typed language (c#), but still be relatively 'safe' (memory managment, etc). He showed a very cool demo of a game construction kit/tool called Unity (i think) which is written in mono.
Anyways, I thought it was interesting, and if you want to immerse yourself in some pretty technical geeky stuff for a while, it's worth watching.
