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Speaking at BASTA! in Mainz (Germany) on September 21st 2010

By Urs Enzler
In .NET, Agile, Announcement
July 1, 2010
1 Min read
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I’m going to speak about code quality (see my short version of the presentation) at the conference BASTA! BASTA! is mainly focused on .NET technology and gives you the opportunity to see and speak with a wide range of technology experts. If you have any feedback of what you are missing in my short presentation, please write a comment here or on the post with the presentation. The short version takes about 30 minutes and my speak at BASTA! is scheduled for 1 hour and 15 minutes.  I will...

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Create mocks with mockito

By Adrian Elsener
In Agile, Java, Test Driven Development, Testing
June 25, 2010
3 Min read
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This is a small summarization what the differences are between the different variations creating mocks with mockito. Null values (default) Per default, after creating a mock, every method will return null. Just create your mock with: I think, this is very useful and straight forward. (And based by mockito developers idea, to create very fast a mock for testing). Sometimes it is very difficult to determine an error which was produced through such a null value. For this case it is very...

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Code Quality! Building code you won’t curse tomorrow.

By Urs Enzler
In Agile, Presentation, Test Driven Development
June 17, 2010
15 Min read
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These are the slides and comments of a presentation I held for bbv Software services AG. The presentation is about how we get quality into our code. Buzzwords: Fokus, frequent measurements, strong team, clean code, pair programming, test driven development, acceptance tests, continuous integration, collective code ownership, team learning. Urs Enzler Senior Software Architect bbv Software Services AG urs.enzler _at_ bbv.ch  (replace _at_ with @) www.bbv.ch Copyright © 2010 bbv Software Services...

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Updated Books Page: User Stories Applied

By Urs Enzler
In Uncategorized
April 2, 2010
1 Min read
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Keeping up with my goal to read a book every month (if they are reasonably thin), I just finished User Stories Applied – For Agile Software Developmen by Mike Cohn.

Check out our Books page for my short review.
The next book on my list is Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.
Happy reading!

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From User Stories to Architecture

By Urs Enzler
In Agile, Architecture, Methodology
March 29, 2010
8 Min read
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This is the slide deck of a presentation I gave for bbv Software Services AG at two events in 2009 along with some comments .
If you are interested in seeing this presentation live (either in German or English) then please contact me.

In an agile project, the architecture has to evolve together with the requirements and the code. In this presentation, I’ll show you our agile architecture lifecycle.

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Updated Books Page

By Urs Enzler
In Uncategorized
March 20, 2010
1 Min read
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Once again, a new book joins the books I’ve read on my shelf: Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley.
Take a look at the books page for my short review.
Happy reading!

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Agile UI Development in .NET: Nested Views

By Urs Enzler
In .NET, Agile, Architecture
January 2, 2010
4 Min read
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Updated: Something went wrong with the code snippets. Now it’s okay.
Today, we”l have a look at nested views in my series on agile UI development in .NET using an extended MVVM pattern (table of contents).
There are two kinds of nested views:

contextually nested views and
hierarchically nested views (master-detail scenarios)

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Agile UI Development in .NET: Model Commands

By Urs Enzler
In .NET, Agile, Architecture
November 2, 2009
4 Min read
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In my series on agile UI development in .NET, we have seen quite a lot so far (table of contents). But up to now, we never made a call to the model (business logic, services and so on). This is the topic of this post: Model Commands.
A Model Command encapsulates a single action hat is execute against the model. This can be a query to request data, an action that modifies data, communication with a completely different part of the system or anything else your application has to do on the model.

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Agile UI Development in .NET: Presenter

By Urs Enzler
In .NET, Agile, Architecture
November 1, 2009
5 Min read
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Next in my series (table of contents) on agile UI development in .NET is the presenter. The presenter is responsible to drive the UI workflow. This means that the presenter is the control center to react to:

events from the model. For example that data has changed.
events from embedded presenters
calls from parent presenter
calls from UI commands

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