Chris Hedgate - Latest Comments

Re: Feedback exercise – showing the value of instant feedback

chrishedgate — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:31:42 -0000

Thanks James, I have added the link to the post.

Re: Feedback exercise – showing the value of instant feedback

James Shore — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:52:49 -0000

Hi Chris, thanks for the shout-out. The original exercise is here: http://jamesshore.com/Presenta...

Re: Troubles with shared state and anonymous delegates in SQLCLR

Doug — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:45:48 -0000

thank you for this article -- 4 years later it is still helpful.

Re: Retrospective Exercise: Doodle Checkin

learning toys — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:33:29 -0000

I really appreciate this wonderful post that you have provided for us.

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Amitha Acharya — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:07:34 -0000

can i use this in general with MTA applications or is it only for Unit testing.I am facing problems with using resource dictionary across WPF windows opened in different threads.

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Stefan Andersson — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:04:47 -0000

Chris,

excellent post; it seems with R#5 JetBrains has flipped this, so the runner runs in MTA.

Re: FOR XML EXPLICIT

mlevitt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:55:07 -0000

Chris,

I need your help, Please!
I have this data in a table

grp ledger amount
1 A01 5
1 A02 3
1 A03 4
2 A22 8
3 A33 3
3 A36 4

I need to sum the amounts grouping by grp
I also need to concatenate the ledgers by grp
The result needs to look like this. How do I do this without a cursor or loop on a Sql2000 server. I've tried to make sense of FOR XML but I'm not getting it. Also, I'm not sure if I even have to use it.

grp amt ledger
1 12 A01, A02, A03
2 8 A22
3 7 A33, A36

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Juan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:38:21 -0000

Your CrossThreadTestRunner class worked perfectly! Thank you!

Re: New beginnings

chrishedgate — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:18:48 -0000

Josepj, thanks for the heads up. However, it works when I click it. Does it not work for you?

Re: New beginnings

Josepj — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:42:11 -0000

As a side note, your link to your profile on linkedIn is not working.

Re: Duoblog: What is the secret of great presentations?

alovak — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:26:42 -0000

Chris, all advices are right!

Guys you can get even more brilliant ideas/advices from Garr Raynolds book "Presentation zen" or you can view his presentation here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2...

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Eric — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:48:59 -0000

Works like a charm! Thanks!

Re: Testing events with unit tests

chrishedgate — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:23:48 -0000

Seth, I am not quite sure what you mean. In the example above there are two real types, SubscriberUnderTest and PublisherUnderTest. The tests verify functionality in those two types, only. The fakes are used as stubs and spies to drive and verify the behavior of the real types. Do you see things differently?

Re: Testing events with unit tests

Seth Flowers — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:52:51 -0000

Whats the point of unit testing _only_ mock objects. I expect to see at least one real type being tested, the rest being mocks and interfaces that the mocks implement. If all the code is in mock objects, the test is worthless.

Sandimashighschoolfootballrules

Re: Databinding a WPF control to something else than a static property

raisa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:36:47 -0000

please, i need your help...can you send me all the code of this example

Re: Duoblog: What is the secret of great presentations?

Aslam Khan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:54:15 -0000

Hmmm, I never thought of presentations as being scalable. This is a great way of thinking about your content. And it allows you to play around with the equilibrium too (more is less, less is more).

And yet another wonderfully crazy and creative experiment by the master of experimentation :-)

Re: Duoblog: What is the secret of great presentations?

Claudio Perrone — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:54:08 -0000

Excellent post, Chris. Your suggestions are absolutely sound. The Beyond Bullet Point book, for example, helps a lot in creating such logical structure. With that, you can have the same talk scaled from 5 minutes to 45, with a clear and useful guideline for your first 5 slides.
I consider it a solid starting point and effectively is the script that follows the "logical outline" that I mentioned before.
Good, my next post is going to start from there and mix cards a bit ;-)

Re: Pairing should be the norm

Marcus — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:48:03 -0000

We use pair programming quite extensively at uni - it's a great way to teach each other - but I guess in my opinion it is not so much about finding ways why we should pair program, rather it sometimes feels like the end-results is far away. Hm. That is of course dependent on what the end-result is, learning or a method/class/prototype. Pair programming is fun for many reasons but it is sometimes difficult to see the productivity increase. I guess that is one reason we miss out on pair programming all too often.

Great reflection!

Re: Team anti-pattern: The Helpful Teacher

Tobias Fors — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:10:43 -0000

Hi Chris! Thanks for the post. Another good read on the topic is Chris Argyris's article "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". It's available on Harvard Business Review's web site for a few bucks.

Re: New beginnings

Chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:57:18 -0000

Steve, Staffan, thanks for your support and encouragement. In fact, that is precisely what we did tonight. We went out, raised a couple of glasses and reflected on the great time we have had these years. Thanks!

Re: New beginnings

Steven M. Smith — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:51 -0000

Chris, It may sound odd, but I suggest celebrating. Raise your glass and toast your colleagues for helping you grow. Toast how this experience has helped you grow. Toast how this experience will make you more empathetic to organizational change and the need for agility. Toast the events that made you aware that you needed to go in a different direction. Toast your skill at being congruent. Cry and laugh. It's all connected. I wish you and your colleagues all best. Each of you is a great person. Warm regards, Steve

Re: New beginnings

Staffan Nöteberg — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:23:41 -0000

Chris, I am pretty sure that you also have lots of ideas, what to do next. Let me know if you want feedback on any of them.

And good luck with your next step!

Re: Retrospective Exercise: Doodle Checkin

Portia Tung — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:01:57 -0000

Hi Chris,

This is a great entry! It's fun, creative, educational, to-the-point and based on real experience.

I bought my Doodle pad last Christmas and have been waiting for the opportunity to use it. Thanks to your inspiration, I'll be using it with my teams because doodling together is so much more fun than just on your own =>

Keep writing!
Portia

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Sunit Joshi — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:51:09 -0000

Thanks Chris...this helped me too. My failed tests were driving me nuts earlier !!

Re: Setting the contents of a WPF RichTextBox

Steve — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:03:43 -0000

Thanks! Saved me a lot of time!!