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Albert Weinert has release an update to his plugin to allow execution of R# 4.0 from within Visual Studio .NET 2005 / 2008. The only Unit Testing framework supported by R# 4.0 out of box is NUnit, so this is a useful plugin for those who prefer MbUnit to NUnit.

It's Canada Day today. And it's opening of The ALT.NET Open Spaces conference in Calgary, taking place August 15-17, 2008 (at the University of Calgary).

The leading bargeman

A few months ago I blogged about Domain Objects vs. Primitive Types. Back then it felt right to me to transform a primitive type, like a Guid that represented an organization ID, to an Organization domain object. Unfortunately at that time I was not educated enough to know that this is a common idiom among many object designers. Apparently it is. Craig Larman writes it nicely in his book (in my case Organization is what Craig references to as a Customer):

It is very hard to provide an honest opinion when you are involved in a situation. I found it always difficult for myself and admired people of being able to do it, lifting themselves from emotional attachments to the matter.

A few days ago read in Larman's book about Command-Query Separation Principle. Funny to mention  that I heard about the concept many times ago, but this is the only source that stated it as a principle. And it makes total sense once you evaluate all the pros and cons of the idea.

Today is 3 years since I started working with the company I work today. It's being a long journey from figuring out what I want, till realizing what I am and need to be. The team has accepted all of my wildest ideas about the code and was very tolerant to the fact that I cannot wait to get something done. We've made a long way.

Interesting difference I picked up from a book this morning - code smell vs. code stench.