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A slick web-based tool for testing and perfecting .net regular expressions

Microsoft has opened the "Tester Center" to the public with the goal of providing a central location for software testers to share stories, knowledge and experience, and get answers, tools, and other resources...

ASP.NET MVC provides model-view-controller (MVC) support to the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime, which enables developers to more easily take advantage of this design pattern. Benefits include the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns, as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD).

Free magazine providing practical knowledge for the software developer, tester and project manager

A competitor to nUnit which takes the view that there's more than one type of [TestFixture] needed. They have some very good extensions to the base Fixture available.

Continuous Integration involves frequent automated builds (including automated tests) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible in a team development setting.

Roy Osherove's The Regulator is a free Regular Expresssions testing and learning tool...

Free screenshots of your site in safari ... for-pay access to a virtual machine on a mac so you can test all Mac browsers. Just how badly do you want to be ready for the two-percenters?

Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures. It has proven to be a particularly nasty usability problem in our testing of mobile devices

Buried deep in the bin folder of the Silverlight Toolkit Unit Tests is a hidden gem: The Rx Framework (System.Reactive.dll).

Short and sweet.

I love this article. Lawrence is 60 and can perhaps afford to be sanguine, but I am glad he is warning the rest of us.

Some quotable quotes here: "while we laugh at the guy who expected that his computer could be hooked up to his boom box to use the cd, he's actually just a bit ahead of us. Yes, ahead, not behind. In the future, he probably could get his computer to talk the boom box into transferring data from its cd." "When I was a teenager, I had a friend who made extra money testing and changing vacuum tubes in TV's and radios. Try earning money that way today- there is actually a very small market for that kind of thing, and there are still people who sell tubes and the like, but that market is pretty small. In the dumbed down computers of the future, there may still be a few antique machines kicking around here and there, but that isn't going to support very many of us." This is largely true and happening all the time. A programmer can use Python or Smalltalk without needing to know C (or Fortran or assembler.) A child can program in Morphic tiles (Etoys and Scratch)! We don't need to know the difference between a serial cable and a printer cable, or how to install a driver' it is all USB (or Bluetooth!) There are some gurus that program USB, but perhaps only a few hundred of them, and the rest of us just use it.

For now, Linux builds of the chromium open source browser won't work on Intel and AMD processors from the early/mid 2000s (including my desktop PC :( )

Code developers often have a nightmare when their development environment gets corrupted or some other snags stop them from creating and deploying their application. If such a thing happens at the eleventh hour of code delivery, hell breaks lose. At such testing times how badly as a programmer you would have wished for some alternative.

Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework delineates the framework and skeleton of Microsoft development techniques through typical sample codes in three popular programming languages (Visual C#, VB.NET, Visual C++). Each sample is elaborately selected, composed, and documented to demonstrate one frequently-asked, tested or used coding scenario based on our support experience in MSDN newsgroups and forums.

"So when he found a bug and it was fixed by a developer, he had to wait ages before he could deploy the build with the fix into his testing environment to check it. This problem results from a combination of two anti-patterns that are common when creating a deployment pipeline: * insufficient parallelization, * and over-constraining your pipeline workflow.

"Cloud" style web hosting designed for developers: git "push" deployment compile and run unit tests before deploy direct db access ..

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