Rickard Nilsson on crafting software

The Humble dialog v.2

15. juli 2008 Rickard C# 3.0, Design Patterns, Unit testing (2)

Download source: TheHumbleDialog2.zip (30KB) I've been working to get my head around the Model-View- Download source: TheHumbleDialog2.zip (30KB) I've been working to get my head around the Model-View-Presenter pattern and I've focused primarily on a Winforms scenario. As it turns out there are nume... [More]

Syntax Highlighter Release 0.2 Beta

5. maj 2008 Rickard BlogEngine.NET, Open source (15)

Thanks to a great deal of interest on my post on syntax highlighting in BlogEngine.NET a while ago I'm now releasing a new version. It is based on the version that ships with BlogEngine.NET but it has been augmented as well as refactored to support more language elements like types in C#. The code f... [More]

Syntax highlighting in BlogEngine.NET

12. april 2008 Rickard ASP.NET 2.0, BlogEngine.NET, C# 2.0, CSS, Open source (13)

BlogEngine.NET ships with an extension that automatically highlights source code in blog posts. All that is required is that the source code block is surrounded with [code:lang][/code] tags. The extension will markup the code with CSS classes and the default theme includes a default color scheme for... [More]

Week and strong contracts in Design by Contact

31. mars 2008 Rickard C# 2.0, Design by Contract (3)

Answer to Fredrik Normén on Defensive programming and Design by Contract on a routine level. "Design by Contract is about creating a contract between the client and the supplier. The idea of the Design by Contract theory is to associate a specification with every software elements. This specificati... [More]

JavaScript resources

20. mars 2008 Rickard JavaScript (0)

There are an endless amount of JavaScript resources outhere and this is my attempt at gethering som of the best I find useful... I thought that I should do a post about the JavaScript resources I've found most useful. There are an endless amount of JavaScript resources out there and and there is onl... [More]

Driving out a correct implementation of ISO week numbers using TDD #4

18. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

Abstract Refactoring Test coverage Proceeding with a solution there is no way of chang Abstract Refactoring Test coverage Proceeding with a solution there is no way of changing the implementation of the GregorianCalendar class to get the correct behavior so we have to go ... [More]

Driving out a correct implementation of ISO week numbers using TDD #3

17. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

Abstract Refactoring Our task at hand is to get as much coverage as possible when it comes to error Abstract Refactoring Our task at hand is to get as much coverage as possible when it comes to errors in the implementation. The ideal coverage is one where all dates are tested. The problem is that ... [More]

Driving out a correct implementation of ISO week numbers using TDD: Refactor

12. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

AbstractSo, now we make up another test. Looking at the calendar we see that new years eave 2001 sho AbstractSo, now we make up another test. Looking at the calendar we see that new years eave 2001 should also belong to the first week of 2002 according to ISO 8601. We write the test much like the pr... [More]

Abstract: Driving out a correct implementation of week numbers using TDD

11. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

The implementation of weeks according to ISO 8601 (used e.g. in Sweden) is faulty in .NET Framework. The implementation of weeks according to ISO 8601 (used e.g. in Sweden) is faulty in .NET Framework. In particular the GregorianCalendar and CultureInfo classes are faulty when it comes to ISO 8601.S... [More]

Pappaledig!

5. mars 2008 Rickard Personal (0)

Är nu inne på min tredje dag som pappledig och det är precis som jag förväntade mig, det vill säga helt galet. Jag skall göra ett ärligt försök till att blogga från och med nu och förmodligen kommer det att bli på engelska för att kunna använda bloggen som referens i olika användargrupper och annat ... [More]

Så här ser jag ut

4. januari 2008 Rickard Personal (1)

Ny blog med BlogEngine.NET

4. januari 2008 Rickard BlogEngine.NET (1)

Hej! Kul att du tittar in. Jag har äntligen haft möjlighet att flytta min gamla blog från webblogg.se till min egen domän. Tack vare BlogEngine.NET gick det supersnabbt och öppnar för stora anpassningsmöjligheter. I och med detta så kommer min gamla blog att... [More]

Crafting software

by Rickard Nilsson