I like the Roy Osherove blog: Five Whys, Leadership in software teams.
Follow up on those two posts “How to measure programmer productivity using TDD Katas” or “Be Productive and Go Mouseless”. I would like to share a little keyboard shortcut which save me quite some time on my daily developments.
I tend to use a lot the Live Template of ReSharper, for example working for some time now with the WPF MVVM pattern I created a ViewModel template of such a class and use it extensively.
Today I updated the File Template I use to write my NUnit tests like this:
In my development process I do use what Rob is describing in his post “Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction” with some slight differences.
For example I developed Tech Head Brothers portal this way, as Innoveo Solutions web site. I use TDD and Domain Driven Development and I keep the mapping as one of the last step for my implementation.
If you do have Microsoft Source Analysis Tools for C# and JetBrains ReSharper 4.0 installed in you development environment than you might get issue when you run your unit tests through ReSharper Unit Test Explorer and Sessions. As you can read on my bug report feedback:
There is known problem in StyleCop, which prevents build system of VS to report any progress. Unit Testing waits for project to be built. You can switch building to "Never" on Session toolbar and build manually, or uninstall StyleCop