Flash problems

Are you seeing the error “Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version” on the BBC web site or on YouTube “Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia’s Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player”? I have been on my Dell Mini; I suspect the problem was the upgrade route I took from XP-Home -> IE8 Beta ->XP Prof meant the registry was a mess....

October 7, 2008 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running fitness.Net tests in unit test – some tips

I posted a while ago on wiring in Fitness.Net into a unit test framework using HTML files to hold the tests. Well I have been using the technique for some workflow acceptance testing and hit a couple of gotta’s that are easy to forget: Make sure the HTML files containing the user story tests are set to copy to the project output directory in the IDE – if they are not then the framework cannot find the tests, so obviously none are run....

October 4, 2008 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Upcoming events in October

It is getting to that conference time of year again; I can’t believe the PDC is only 3 weeks away, then VBug the next week and DDD7 just after that. A bit closer to home there are some free events coming up this month: XPClub - October Meeting: “Agile Narrative” by Nick McKenna, Wednesday, 8th October, 7pm for 7:30pm at the Victoria Hotel in the centre of Leeds (free event inc....

October 4, 2008 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

The October Power Tools Release

I posted about the problems of using Blend with source control, specifically TFS. Well the next version of TFS Power tools gives a partial answer. They are to include Windows Shell Extensions so at least the check-in/out process can be managed would having another application open other than an explorer windows. Well it is step forward, until Blend 3 appears

October 3, 2008 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Testing Driven Development for Workflow Foundation

As we move into the SOA world workflows will become more common and so the need to test them will increase. If we take the most simplistic view these are a sets if statements and loops so should be amenable to automated testing and TDD. However you have to careful how you try to do this, it is too easy to forget that your workflow will run the the WF thread....

October 3, 2008 · 3 min · Richard Fennell