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Complexity is a Disease and Tests are a Symptom

Testing in software development is expensive. I’ve seen estimates ranging from 20% to 80%, some more reliable than others, none really truly reliable. And that’s the problem. Nobody knows how many or what kinds of tests to write, how much testing is too...

Telerik Platform: Connecting AppBuilder to Git

The Telerik Platform is a Tiny Bit Finicky (Sometimes) The Telerik Platform lets you manage AppBuilder projects using Git, but connecting to your repository can be a bit tricky. Sometimes, some of the basics aren’t very clear, such as which credentials you have...

SDP: The Telerik Platform

I’ve been playing around lately with the Telerik Platform, the newest cloud platform on the block. The Platform is very different from Telerik’s other offerings and marks a significant step in the company’s evolution. Telerik has always put...

Where Have All The Good JavaScript Tutorials Gone?

This is a good news bad news post. If you want, you can skip ahead to the good news. The Bad News If you happen to be a JavaScript newbie scouring the web for a good free JavaScript tutorial, you’re pretty much out of luck. It’s amazing how many of the...

SDP: ASP.NET MVC 4 Workshop

My second presentation at the December 2013 Sela Developer Conference was an ASP.NET MVC 4 Workshop. The workshop showed hot to get started with ASP.NET MVC, but mainly focused on features introduced in MVC 4 that are designed to optimize web sites. This includes...

SDP: Testing ASP.NET MVC Web Apps

My first presentation at the December 2013 Sela Developer Conference was on testing ASP.NET MVC Web Apps. My talk focuses on helping MVC programmers get started with unit tests and spec tests. It talks about using the right tools for the job and gives a general...