Over the next couple of months I hope to cover some of the common software design patterns. I’m going to cover them in the order they are written about in the book Head First Design Patterns. Motivation The desire to model varying implementations of the same core behaviour and to decouple this behaviour from the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Strategy Pattern
Posted in .net, patterns, tagged patterns on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is Windows Live Writer failing to display your blog theme correctly?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged k2, windows live writer, wlw, wordpress on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I changed my WordPress blog theme to use the K2 design. Diligently I asked windows live writer to ‘please go get this new style’ and ended up with some rather pleasant but unasked for Times New Roman in the edit pane. The preview pane also didn’t look anything like my blog, obviously the style [...]
WatiN supports Firefox!
Posted in testing, tagged testing, unit testing, watin on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back in March I finished developing a release of the WatiN framework that enabled testing in Firefox in addition Internet Explorer (already supported). This was the first time I’ve been involved in collaborative open source development. I worked with Jeroen van Menen, the creator of the WatiN project using Basecamp for project management and sourceforge [...]