http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve Stuff you pick up on the way... Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:01:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have moved my blog to http://www.clevegibbon.com/blog. I done this because I am playing around with new plugins and stuff and I cannot do that safely on the corporate blog. http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2007/03/21/ive-moved/ It's been a long time since I've had time to post anything.  A lot has happened, most notably I moved house.  How painful is that! Being offline for 2 whole days really hurt me.  But I'm back with a fatter pipe providing me with copius amounts of bandwidth. Anyway, during ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2007/01/18/timeout/ I used Groovy a couple of years back and loved it.  But then did nothing with it.  Then Graeme Rocher, author of The Definitive Guide to Grails, came over to our offices to deliver a course on test-driven development.  After that I got interested in Grails - a web framework ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/11/22/welcome-to-groovy/ Sorry, been offline for a bit with project work. Anyway, we are entering a new phase of a project that is heavy geared towards web services and interoperability between the .NET and Java platforms. After a little bit of digging around I found this very useful utility, SoapUI, ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/11/03/soapui/ Okay, I finished Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber. Damned fine book that I highly recommend. The neat thing about this book is that is it defines Scrum, start to finish within a single chapter, that being chapter 1. The remaining chapters demonstrate exactly what ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/10/04/scrum-and-xp/ 3 years ago I was contracted by ABN to build what ending up being a sales portal for their Fixed Income Business Unit. The team started out with just me on the sales side. I was both the Technical Architect and Project Manager and the team grew to ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/10/01/better-late-than-never/ After a day of getting FIT I was able to run the FitNesse wiki and poke around a bit and run some more acceptance tests.  This I found very interesting and quite impressive really.  It was truly simple.  So how do I write acceptance tests for my .NET applications. The ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/09/29/getting-fit-day-2/ One of the early things on a project to get sorted is who is going to be performing acceptance tests and how are they going to be written and executed? Just so we're clear, acceptance tests are what the customer executes to verify what you (the team) have ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/09/28/getting-fit/ This was a strange book.  I simply never got into it.  If you are new to Agile and/or having problems selling Agile into your organisation then its worth a look.  It has a lot of evidence for why Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) works.   Also, if you want a reference to ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/09/26/agile-iterative-development-craig-larman/ One of the best ways to learn a new language for me is to write a load of tests that demonstrate how particular parts of the lanugage and/or platform work. For VisualStudio 2005, I wanted to do this without paying for the priviledge, so this ruled out: TestDriven.NET that is ... http://blogs.cognifide.com/cleve/2006/09/19/setting-up-nunit/