I’m going to go ahead and give myself a test-driven development badge.
ConAgra Foods is in the process of piloting an Agile methodology (ACE, or Agile for ConAgra Enterprise) catered to us by IBM. Part of that methodology is the use of Test Driven Development, a practice we’ve talked a lot about, but never implemented, due to challenges with our traditional approach.
The most critical among those challenges: we never wrote software based on discrete requirements.
We would jump right into coding after a quick conversation with our functional teams, and we never gave thought about individual units of functionality until we reached our testing phase. Simply, we never had an opportunity to write tests before we were already knee-deep in code.
So today I finished my first three tests, and tomorrow I’ll knock out a few more. Thereafter, I’ll re-read some TDD blog posts I had saved, and see just how TDD my approach was (I’ve probably done a few things wrong this first go around).
I think yes.
With the release of the iBooks and iBooks Author applications, I think the time has come for crowdsourcing the textbook industry. Generally speaking, the curriculums of K-12 and even many college degrees have stabilized, meaning that the value of their textbooks should be dropping.
In economic terms, the supply of most knowledge—globally, certainly—has been increasing, so the cost of that knowledge should be decreasing.
Why should the textbook companies continue to make $120 for an introductory physics textbook that hasn’t changed in 10 years?
I finally found the piece that I was missing: the BizTalk Server Addin in the LOB Adapter SDK Install
Getting closer, at least I found out where I SHOULD see the option. Under Add > Add Generated Items -> Consume Adapter Service
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dd788586(v=BTS.10).aspx
I currently only have an option to Consume WCF Service
I still have no option for an adapter reference… not sure where to turn next
Trying out the “Tools” install option….
When using a BizTalk project in Visual Studio 2010, There’s supposed to be a way to open a wizard for a BizTalk schema for an SAP RFC. Thus far, I haven’t been able to get it to show up, even though I’ve been through the BizTalk installation a few times.
I may have just noticed, however, that when installing the BizTalk Adapter Pack, under the WCF LOB Adapter SDK setup, that you have to check the “Tools” install, which includes a VS2010 add-in.
Trying this now…
United Football League Power Rankings over time.
In what way was this change for the better?
