August 2010 - Posts

Exporting normalized relational data from database to flat file format by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Sometimes you need to export relational normalized data into flat files where a single row comes from various tables. For example, say you want to export all customer records along with their work and home address, and primary phone number in a single...
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Website diagnostics page to diagnose your ASP.NET website by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

Whenever you change web.config file or deploy your website on a new environment, you have to try out many relevant features to confirm if the configuration changes or the environment is correct. Sometimes you have to run a smoke test on the website to...
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Back to school : Getting to know F# by Mehfuz's WebLog

This post starts with a basic introduction of F# and finally ends up writing a simple unit test for an F# member. For those who don’t know what F# is all about, Its a product from Microsoft research and now part of VS 2010 family. Actually from Wikipedia...
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WatinN to automate browser and test sophisticated ASP.NET AJAX sites by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

WatiN is a great .NET library for writing automated browser based tests that uses real browser to go to websites, perform actions and check for browser output. Combined with a unit test library like xUnit, you can use WatiN to perform automated regression...
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User story is worthless, Behavior is what we need by Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily

User Story is suitable for describing what user needs but not what user does and how system reacts to user actions within different contexts. It basically gives product team a way to quantify their output and let their boss know that they are doing their...
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