Looking across blogs, Twitter, and the community in general there has been a lot of discussion around Microsoft's forthcoming Entity Framework. In the midst of the discussion many valid criticisms have been drown out or lost in the noise of the cheerleading, trolling, and marketecture generated by community Gloryhounds, Redmond, and any number of other super-pro-Microsoft groups/identities. Even the alt.net community has been guilty of adding to the noise and confusion. The noise has gotten so loud that the message itself has been lost. Voice your concern But through that noise it looks like a voice...

A few weeks ago Oren (known to many as Ayende Rahien) pushed out a Rhino.Mocks beta drop so we could take a look at the new Arrange/Act/Assert syntax being cooked up for the pending 3.5 release. Yesterday I finally upgraded my client project to the 3.5 beta bits and started digging into the new syntax. AAA, FTW! After using Arrange/Act/Assert for just a day or two I’m already hooked. It feels like a much more natural fit for bdd-style tests. The whole Given, Expect, When, Then, go-back-and-verify-expectations flow always felt clumsy and counterintuitive, and AAA allows for...

Tired of typing all those underscores_while_writing_your_BDD_specifications? Yeah, I wasn’t really either. However I’ve heard read complaints from some folks that typing the underscore so many times was getting annoying, so they had opted for PascalCasing instead. Just deal with it Maybe its because of my exposure to Ruby and the joy that is RSpec, but I don’t think such minor annoyance is enough of a reason to top using a more readable style. Repetitive Stress Injury, be damned! Or maybe not! The other day while cleaning out my RSS reader I came across AutoHotKey (thanks JP), a...