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• Mono FieldStat

  I based this post from a post by Sebastien Pouliot , I was so thrilled that I wanted to write it up here. Chris Gameweld was a student on this years Mono SoC project and has worked on creating a tool to improve the unit test coverage within the Mono code base . The end result was a tool called FieldStat that checks the frequency of how often methods are called, when used with code coverage results in a test you can see where tests need be shored up. Chris has an interesting proposal . An approach for favoring the important but uncovered code involves an algorithm that is capable of ranking the importance of code. CodeRank is a technique that is similar in spirit with Google’s PageRank –- important methods link to other important methods. The CodeRank creates an ordered ranking of all the methods where each rating assigned to a method gives its relative percent importance. This rating can be scaled by other factors including call frequency. FieldStat is using CodeRank and producing some Read More... Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:48 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Testing & Build Systems, Mono

• Is ASP.NET good enough for startup's

  James Avery has a link to Jeff Eaton post that asks "Why not ASP.NET [for startup's]?". Let's consider that if this is a cost thing then it's running Windows (costs) as opposed to Linux (free, unless your paying for support options but its relative). ASP.NET\Visual Studio Express (web edition and c# edition) are free. Jeff's remaining points can be addressed as Webform issues not ASP.NET issues, if your looking for Rails style in ASP.NET then projects like Castle MonoRail shoild be your first port of call. You can find all the power, flexability, community and all that Rails goodness and it's built onto of ASP.NET framework. To be fair to webforms, it's short comings are well know, it's product team is hard working in solving those problems and as a great community (which extends to the ASP.NET framework as a whole) of users and problem solvers\experts like the MVPs and ASP Insiders. To address problem 1, if you want to cut costs and run Linux you can still use ASP.NET using Mono. Mono Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:23 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Patterns, Mono, MonoRail

• Mono\Ubuntu\MbUnit

  MbUnit 2.4 successfully runs on Mono 1.2.3 in Ubuntu.There are a few things to keep in mind about running MbUnit like this due to Mono limitations. The native MbUnit GUI has no support, MbUnit.Cons is however supported. MbUnit rollback attribute for .NET 1.1 and the Performance Assert are not supported, the rollback attribute for .NET 2.0 is however supported. If I ever find the time I'll look at porting the MonoDevelop NUnit support to MbUnit. Read More... Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:00 PM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, MbUnit, Mono

• Mono C# 3.0 compiler support

  Miguel has a post on updates to the C# 3.0 compiler in Mono . Great to see support for Lambda Expressions and Implicit Typed Parameters being added. The Olive project will add more features such as Linq, more details on that can be found in another of Miguels posts . Read More... Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 5:21 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Mono

• Running Mono on Ubuntu

  It's quite odd to feel new to something that I use everyday :) but using Mono on Ubuntu for .NET development does feel like that. I have only just started using Linux again and Ubuntu just keeps amazing me in terms of ease of use for users coming from the windows world but also (in true Linux style) the ability to get into the depths of it. Installing Mono is a breeze via a generic Linux installer and I am having a blast playing with MonoDevelop , I'll post up more later. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:39 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Mono

• Mono's Olive

  Looking through the slides from Mono Meeting 2006 and while looking at Miguels I noticed an announcement for a sub project called Olive . This looks like a Mono support for WCF and WCS , quite cool to see. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:54 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Mono