Interviewed by Typemock

At the recent SharePoint Conference in Vegas I took a few minutes out to talk to Gil Zilberfeld of Typemock about what 21apps is doing with SharePoint and what I see as the next steps in the community regarding SharePoint development.

Looking at what areas I see as being a focus in the SharePoint development [...]

TDD Kata – By Example video

Since attending Roy Osherove’s TDD Master Class I have been doing my daily TDD Kata, I will admit I have missed some days but generally I have been keeping up with it and really seeing the benefit.
Here I talked about what a Kata is and how it compares to Kumon Maths and I also took [...]

TDD Master Class – with Roy Osherove

For almost my entire career I have been involved in software development, and probably uniquely more often than not in an environment or role where I have needed to look at process improvement. This started with my first role where I had to ensure development adhered to ISO9001 standards, through to today where I work [...]

Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin

Before last week, I attended Roy Osherove’s TDD Masterclass,  I do not think I would have had the “you know what’s” to be able to put up an alternative solution to one of Uncle Bobs (aka Robert Martin) examples of doing Test Driven Development,  but here I am publishing the the solution I arrived at [...]

Daily TDD Kata – now I’m doing what Jack does

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Roy Osherove’s Test Driven Development Masterclass,  I will post in a few days more on this but can say this is one of the best training courses I have ever attended.
During the course I got to learn about the Kata technique, something I had heard about but [...]

What to learn TDD?

If you’ve read my blog you’ll know that I am a fan of Test Driven Development and an avid user of Typemock Isolator, specifically for the hard to test SharePoint code.  
If you’re not sure of the benefits of doing TDD or need to get some justification from you boss as to how quickly he could [...]

Small steps for testing, big steps for SharePoint testing

Following on from my rant response yesterday about the more negative views from the SharePoint community my reading this morning was so much more positive.
Unit Testing Workflows
In my response to a question from Aaron Weiker I said that I would like to see much more guidance and investigation into the way we approach Unit Testing [...]

TDD and SharePoint is it worth doing?

Just read a post by Sahil Malik where he gives his reasons for saying
TDD + SharePoint 2007? Well – screw it! Not worth it IMO.
The reason for his statement is that he sees the actual C# code developed as being a very small % of the total SharePoint project and the effort to do this [...]

Introducing Project Aberdovey: Scrum for SharePoint

Being an advocate of SharePoint as an application platform I looked long and hard for a decent implementation of a Scrum and have always been found wanting.  I have seen simple examples where any power user could set things up but found the lack of any Burndown charts meant you lost probably the most important [...]

SharePoint Conference goes large in the UK

Unless you’ve been hiding under a bush for the past year you will have heard all about the fantastic Best Practices SharePoint conference’s that have taken place in Washington and San Diego.  Showing that you don’t have to jet across the Atlantic to see the best speakers the European Best PracticesT SharePoint Conference comes to [...]