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Daily Grind 396
By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, June 14, 2004
Running some numbers this morning convinced me that the
garlic-of-the-month club won't fly as a business plan. Back to programming, I
guess.
Software
- viWord - vi
keybindings for Microsoft Word. Ack. (via
Gammatron)
-
VBParser - Scanner and parser for the Visual Basic
- NewsAloud -
Voice RSS reader. I can think of some interesting combinations of this
technology with portable devices for taking your RSS along with you. (via
Lockergnome)
- VSTabs - Gradient-filled
combined tabs for use in Visual Studio .NET. (via
PowerToys)
- Today
Weather - Weather software for the Pocket PC. (via
Paschal L)
Information
Community
-
Unit
Testing in Visual Studio 2005 - Peter Provost has started a blog
petition: "Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of
Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System." This is getting a lot of
traction in blogland, but it doesn't seem to me that anyone is asking the
right question: what are you willing to give up to get this? Microsoft
doesn't have unlimited resources, and they can't just shove more stuff in
the sack without something spilling out the other end. The Team System
people aren't even going to have all their bits in the next VS 2005 beta,
which says to me that they're already overloaded. So: are you willing to
have all of VS 2005 slip to get unit testing in the base packages? Are you
willing to give up X other new sexy feature so resources can be reallocated?
Do we even know enough about the architecture of Team System to know how
much work would be involved in pulling out just the unit testing portion?
Having unit testing everywhere is a nice thing, but I don't think a petition
in advance of the facts is really all that productive.
Mike Gunderloy is
the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on
programming topics.


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