I’m organising two very different and two very EXCITING barcamps this year. I’ve got Nottingham in July http://bcnott.simplified.co.uk/ and Blackpool in October http://barcampblackpool.com. They’re going to be E P I C Nottingham – 2 day event at the Nottingham Hackspace. This will be Nottingham’s first barcamp and I hope to meet members from the very rich Nottingham… Read More barcamps, barcamps everywhere…
On 16th April I headed up to Sheffield to enjoy my second barcamp there. The last one had been held at the showcase cinema and my two ferrets came along. This time the two day event was held at GIST labs building. Filled with geeks playing card games, it was pretty easy to spot and… Read More Barcamp Sheffield
Last night a blog post saved my life…. We wrote some tests, wrote some code. Red, green refactor. There were regular expressions, they passed first time! All was beautiful. Then we moved the code out of the tests into the main project and it all went wrong. The project we moved it to was strongly… Read More Signing a 3rd party assembly
Once upon a time… Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been lucky enough to get to work on a green field project. The hardest part for me has not only been trying to understand the system and domain (which I thought would be easy after getting my head around a Link Network Simulator), but… Read More Writing Stories
I’ve found the following really useful on my journey using git: TortoiseGit Git Source Control Provider It’s great to have that visual studio integration as it allows you to see which files are under version control, and their state, from within the IDE. Tortoisegit feels really natural for me as I’m used to… Read More Git – Visual Studio Integration
We’ve recently migrated from TFS to git. I’m an svn girl at heart, so it’s all a bit new and strange. So far, it’s been a big learning curve. The Git – SVN Crash Course has been really useful. Things I have learned today: I do not understand git rebase I do not understand git… Read More Foray into git
At #agilestaffs on Monday 24th January, I delivered my first workshop on how to do bdd in .NET with StoryQ. The demo was in an MVC2 app. Here’s the slides: https://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=djnm698_69d3wpr8gd And here’s the steps: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1zlL3XC4KBAx5GCsq1hixdlYjamTckImvbjHDDn3K5eg&embedded=true
Since we upgraded to VS2010 and our lovely shiny new development machines, compiling the build no longer told us of errors in the views. ) : This was very frustrating as we only found out about these issues when hudson reported a broken build! Upon further investigation, what seems to have happened is that during… Read More MvcBuildViews stops working 
As part of the build process on the apps team at Esendex, we like to be doubly sure nothing is broken by not only compiling, running unit tests, acceptance tests, integration tests AND regression tests, but also checking that all our views compile too. There’s loads of blog posts on how to do this, quite… Read More Compiling MVC Views
Gemma Cameron 