Ever since reading about Fit – the integrated test framework by Ward Cunningham – I wanted to try it out but I never gave myself a chance until tonight. Apparently there are some different incarnations of Fit but because there might be some potential for implementing Fit at our shop I think Fitnesse – a …
Author Archives: basp
Castle
After a few weeks of wondering why the Cassini web server distributed with Castle refused to run with the 2.0 framework but today with great luck I stumbled upon the missing piece of information in Google’s cache of Castle’s FishEye data here. I just copied the contents of that config into a new config file …
Monad,
Last few weeks I’ve been toying with Msh a.k.a. Monad, the new Microsoft Command Shell. I remember reading somewhere that you could use Windows Forms but that it was impossible to bind handlers to events. Luckely, this is not true. It does require calling an exotic method (for a C# programmer at least) with an …
PHP5
Just a quick note on getting PHP5 to work with Apache 2.2: make sure the LoadModule and <IfModule> sections are in place. The LoadModule line should be added when you install using the ports collection but I was missing the <IfModule> section but after manually adding this I was fine: [code] DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Addtype …
MySQL
It always takes a good night of sleep for me to get things working in FreeBSD. I usually tend to start these tasks too late when I’m not completely with it anymore and things go wrong often right from the start. The day after I’m usually able to complete what I set out to do …
JavaScript
When I got really serious with my JavaScript and understood it well enough I always wanted to have some kind of unit testing framework. Unfortunately though there really does not seem to be anything available that really works and also has some kind of documentation on how to use it. I’ve been following JsUnit for …
"JavaScript,
A few year’s ago I was doing a graduation project at Philips Medical Systems together with a fellow student. Our task was to implement a browser interface to design flowcharts for work instructions. The content would be stored using their custom CMS. Eventually, our solution was based around a grid where each cell would define …
ASP.NET
Today I ran into a “server application unavailable” error and sure enough, upon checking the logs I found something like this: Failed to execute the request because the ASP.NET process identity does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache. Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied. At first I could not find a solution but …
Visual
Much (too much maybe) has been said about Visual Studio 2005 already but if you’re working with Visual Studio 2003 for your daily living (like I am) you want 2005. For me, there’s one new addition that absolutely does it no matter what can be said about 2003: automatic renaming. I tend to mess around …
God
Last week I found this link where you can download Scott Adams’ “God’s Debris” for free. Because I like Scott Adams, books in general and free books even more so I immediately downloaded it. A few days ago I started reading it and it must be one of the best books I have ever read. …