May 2012
2 posts
myNoSQL: Translate SQL to MongoDB MapReduce →
I keep hearing people complaining that MapReduce is not as easy as SQL. But there are others saying SQL is not easy to grok. I’ll keep myself away from this possible flame war and just point you out to this ☞ SQL to MongoDB translation PDF put together by Rick Osborne and also his ☞ post…
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The server is stable... Oops
https://gist.github.com/2593343
It never crashes!
April 2012
1 post
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How I startup all my project services in multiple...
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I am running snow leopard, and TotalTerminal (because the slide down is awesome)
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It’s been some time now that I am playing and learning ruby, rails, and the tools around it to develop.
On a project I work on, we start having a bunch of services to start to be ready to work. If you want to really see what is going on, you want each of them in a separate tab....
March 2012
1 post
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Trim your build on Silverlight projects!
This post expose the problem from the current project and technology I work with. However, the general lesson behind it can be applied to any other project or technology.
By curiosity, I checked the build time stats fromour Continuous Integration server (TeamCity) for our main Silverlight project. It’s big, and the compile time is a clearly pain on this platform.
Here is what I...
February 2012
2 posts
myNoSQL: Document Databases Compared: CouchDB,... →
Brian Ritchie has two posts (☞ here and ☞ here) covering three document databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, and RavenDB concluding with the matrix below:
But before using this as a reference material there are a couple of corrections needed:
They have some special characteristics…
September 2011
1 post
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Git Is Simpler Than You Think
nfarina:
It was about one year ago that we switched to Git. Previously, we used Subversion, through the Mac app Versions, which (rightly) holds an Apple Design Award.
I made the executive decision to leave our comfy world of Versions because it seemed clear that Git was winning the Internet. There was much grumbling from my teammates, who were busy enough doing actual work thank you...
August 2011
1 post
Silverlight unit testing - Test Not Initialized
It has been a year now that I work on a silverlight project. As any respectful developer I write unit tests. But in silverlight, things are not all that easy when it comes to testing.
First of all, the unit testing framework doesn’t come out of the box. Instead, you will find it in the Silverlight Toolkit. On the bright side, this allow a separate release cycle than the one from silverlight.
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June 2011
1 post
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Abstract Factory and IoC Container in asp.net MVC
Sometimes, you want to be able to change the implementation of a component depending on a variable that you don’t control at design time, a user action for example. This will be a lot easier to explain if we use a concrete example. I will present the problem that I faced to illustrate the usage of the method.
Consider a simple search form, but you want to be able, with the same form, to search...
March 2010
1 post
Stop the war between NUnit and MSTest : Make them...
Note : this is an old article from my previous blog that I ported here
Recently, Roy Osherove blogged NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing in an answer to this StackOverflow question My team is using TFS2008 (and soon 2010) for source control. When I introduced Continuous Integration and Unit Testing in my team, I considered using NUnit and a separate continuous integration server...
September 2009
1 post
First sprint retrospective
It has been now 4 weeks that I started the transition to scrum in my company. The first sprint was very chaotic, and I couldn’t even qualify is as a sprint, We had a backlog that we discussed with the product owner, and our business expert, but it was not well prioritized, we didn’t estimate the items, neither did we select a set of features to commit to. It was a first shot, trying to get the...