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I recently discovered a very cool project on NuGet - FluentAssertions. This is a really funky little library that vastly improves assertions in your unit tests, whether you are using NUnit or MsTest.

So I tried to give some examples of when NUnit (what I use) is much nicer and more readable then this project. However Diigo comments deletes some special symbols like [ for some reason. But the point was that this article only compares to MsTest, not NUnit which can be quite readable.

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"The below 11 points are what I have learnt via projects, my own experiences, and my own reading. I personally think it has helped me a lot when it comes to DB designing."

About Project Euler What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.

"One of the things I like most about working in software development is the fact the for the most part you get to work with fairly intelligent people. I've always wondered why so many smart people manage their career so poorly."

The advent of the many-core era is not going to push developers to write more parallel code. That hasn't happened as we've gone from 1- to 2- to 4- to 8-core processors, has it? Writing parallel code is not the problem. So, let's stop trying to fix it.

Apple's new MacBook Pro follows the fine tradition of the iPhone 4 and third-gen iPad in that it has a super high-resolution Retina display: a 2880 x 1800 panel with an amazing 220 pixels packed in per inch. It's an incredible display. In fact, it's such an incredible display that it actually has about one million, seven hundred thousand pixels more than it needs to satisfy Apple's definition of Retina, leading some to claim that those pixels are all going to waste. Nothing could be further from the truth.

IntroToRx.com is the online resource for getting started with the Reactive Extensions to .Net. Originally starting life as a blog series, it has now flourished into an online book.

Some people are naturally pre-disposed to being highly productive. They start their days with a clear and reasonable intention of what they plan to do, and then they work diligently throughout the day, sticking to their plans, focused on accomplishing their most important priorities, until the day ends and they've achieved precisely what they had expected. Each day moves them one day closer to what they intend to accomplish over the year. I am, unfortunately, not one of those people.

One of the mistakes I see people make (and have made myself) is assuming that you must choose exactly one ORM strategy for an entire database/application/system. It's simply not the case.

I like the analogy "Software development, however, is more like rowing."

An interesting read: legacy software is there and an important part of our lives, but maintaining it may pose a challenge. The author argues that agile methods may even be more beneficial to teams maintaining legacy code than to teams that build brand new products from scratch.

A series of six articles desribing each of the five SOLID principles used for dependency management in object-oriented design and programming. When followed, these principles can enhance the maintainability of software.

Perhaps interesting after today's meeting...

TechEd Europe 2012: one of the best talks of the conference. If you love coding, you will love this talk about dealing with streams of events using the Reactive Extensions framework.

Visual Studio 2012 gets rid of "VS Setup" projects. However, the WiX toolset provides a strong open alternative for creating your installation packages. This PowerShell script (vdproj2wix.ps1) is a very simple one for converting a Visual Studio setup project (aka a .vdproj file) into a WiX format one (i.e. a .wxs file).

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

"LinkedIn has just passed 175 million registered users and is widely recognized to be the most successful business-oriented social media networking site in the world. So why haven't more people - especially IT pros -  figured out how to maximize its features and make it a tool that effectively builds relationships with their peers and attracts appropriate employment options?"

"This article aims to describe why I think that DDD aids you tremendously in creating robust and flexible applications."

"Since the release of .NET 4.5, you've been able to use the RTM version of Async & Await. There are some things though that can lead to very weird behaviors in your applications, and a lot of confusion."