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In Retrospect: About Requirements Management

This is the first of several posts in which I’d like to share some of the things we decided throughout 14 sprint retrospective. Some of them might appear as open doors, but I wish I knew or thought about those before I started that project. Just by looking back at the mistakes a team of 9 developers and one tester in a period of 12 months made, they apparently aren’t that obvious.

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Published: 31-10-2011 by Dennis Doomen | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
 

Fluent Assertions is finally gaining some momentum

Indeed it is, in particular within the part of the .NET community that believes test-first development is non-negotiable. We receive more and more suggestions, contributions and questions, and we’ve started to notice some blog posts here and there.

It’s not that it is being downloaded thousands of times per month, but since its first release in February 2010 it has been downloaded 1738 times through CodePlex. The biggest increase was caused by NuGet though. Since we’ve uploaded our first NuGet package in January this year, it counted 2863 downloads. That’s more than enough to make us happy.

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Published: 30-10-2011 by Dennis Doomen | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
 

Working with DateTime.Now in Windows Azure apps

For most of us displaying the current date and time is summed up in the following statement: DateTime.Now;

No big deal, but what happens if the time that is displayed is of by a hour? Well most of us would check to see what the machines timezone is and adjust the timezone of the machine to the correct timezone.

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Published: 26-10-2011 by Hans ter Wal | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
 

Sending email from a windows azure application using an Office 365 mailbox

For one of my projects at work I’m trying to figure out what the best way of sending email from a Windows Azure application is.

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Published: 25-10-2011 by Hans ter Wal | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
 

Windows Azure Tools: Unable to connect to dfService.

Installed the azure 1.5 SDK yesterday. When I tried to start my simple web role on my development fabric it was taking forever and would eventually end with the message: Windows Azure Tools: Unable to connect to dfService.

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Published: 05-10-2011 by Hans ter Wal | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post