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Just wanted to post that TargetProcess now finally integrates with TFS source control management! I can now check in my changes to TFS and update my User Stories/Tasks in TargetProcess from the checkin comments, like:
#1234 time:0.5 state:done comment:Foobar!
This is a huge, time saving WIN(!), since I don’t have to navigate within TargetProcess just for updating a task with time/state/++.
More details can be found in the documentation for integrating with TFS.
Roy Osherove is giving an hands-on TDD Masterclass in the UK, September 21-25. Roy is author of "The Art of Unit Testing" (http://www.artofunittesting.com/), a leading tdd & unit testing book; he maintains a blog at http://iserializable.com (which amoung other things has critiqued tests written by Microsoft for asp.net MVC – check out the testreviews category) and has recently been on the Scott Hanselman podcast (http://bit.ly/psgYO) where he educated Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques. For a further insight into Roy’s style, be sure to also check out Roy’s talk at the recent Norwegian Developer’s Conference (http://bit.ly/NuJVa).
Full Details here: http://bbits.co.uk/tddmasterclass
bbits are holding a raffle for a free ticket for the event. To be eligible to win the ticket (worth £2395!) you MUST paste this text, including all links, into your blog and email Ian@bbits.co.ukwith the url to the blog entry. The draw will be made on September 1st and the winner informed by email and on bbits.co.uk/blog
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I’m currently reading Roy’s book now and it gives heck of a lot of good advise to a TDD novice like me when it comes to writing good and maintainable unit tests, and to have 5 days with this guy would be awesome to progress further in the TDD space 
The local microligth club had an open day last saturday, and since I’ve for a long time have been interested in aviation (did play around with R/C airplanes a couple years ago) I took the trip over there for a look.
The weather was great and more and more microlight planes arrived to the airfield. I was introduced to the planes and the hobby, and I also grabbed the opportunity to join one of the experienced members of the club in his plane for a flight over the local area. That was a great ride!
I learned enough about microlight aviation that day that I really got bitten by it and now really considering learning to fly.
Manning.com is currently running a discount with 42% off the retail price using the coupon code “alt42”. This gave me the final push to order some updates to our book library at work:
I’m really looking forward to reading these books, especially the book about unit testing by Osherove.
I have a habit of listening to development/.NET related podcasts on my way to/from work and here is the list of podcasts I subscribe to in no particular order:
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