Monthly Archives: September 2006

Perfidy: Performance Testing In NUnit

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Thom

Unsatisfied with calling QueryPerformanceCounter and being done with it, I spent today coming up with a fluent interface for performance testing in NUnit: using (At.Most(5).Seconds) { // Stuff that should take under 5 seconds } using (At.Most(1).Minute.GiveOrTake(10).Seconds) { // Stuff … Continue reading →

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NHibernate-friendly Types

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Thom

It’s probably a combination of laziness and plain bad form to try and map too many BCL types to your database, but if you’re interested, I’ve gone through a few important assemblies and compiled a list of classes that: Are … Continue reading →

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ObjectSpaces Xml Documentation

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Thom

Does anyone else have System.Data.ObjectSpaces.xml in their Frameworkv2.0.50727 directory? I’ve never had the ObjectSpaces bits on this machine, so I assume this is just a standard bit of cruft that comes with the framework. Anyhow, I know Paul Wilson drew … Continue reading →

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Amazon PhD’s In User Land

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Thom

Hello, sir! So you’d like to buy a book? Perhaps you’d like a list of Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) to inform your choice: obj ectdatasource, dui ante, horrible chemical taste, same master page, most active threads, polls module, ascx user … Continue reading →

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