Archives for 2004

My friend Didier got some nice pictures about sun flowers he got from France-Anne :-) Nice with those rainy days :-(

It is about ways to change your coding so that your code is more testable but it is also a good reminder about good design. I really liked the article, nice work Justin.

• Use Interfaces
• Define a base test class
• As much as feasible, make everything return a value
• Separate data access from business logic
• Make use of configuration
• Make Your Classes Do Only One Thing
• Have Domain Object Factories
• Think carefully about packaging, assemblies and namespaces
• Pick a logging strategy early

After beta testing Groove 3.0 for a certain time on a Virtual PC with non productive data and after it final release of yesterday, I decide to upgrade. I have two computer and on each I have two differents Groove account. On my server the update worked perfectly but on my notebook I have issues with one of my account that doesn't update. I am waiting feedback from the support of Groove to solve my issue. And for sure it is with my business account. They will fix it for sure. Be positive.

In another area I installed Firefox and Thunderbird. I am using Thunderbird only to acces newsgroups, but I am really convinced about it, and it will certainly replace outlook express, after some more test. Concerning Firefox, it is really cool, and I jumped from Maxthon (new name for MyIE2) to it and uninstalled Maxthon and MyIE2. I am happy that my site <a title="Tech Head Brothers" href="http://www.techheadbrothers.com">Tech Head Brothers</a> renders right on it.

<strong><u>Database notes</u></strong>:

After importing the database to my development server, use sp_change_users_login to map an existing user in a database to a Microsoft® SQL Server™ login.