Andrew sits down with Ben Scheirman, a software developer based in Houston Texas. He is a Microsoft MVP, Microsoft ASP Insider, and certified Scrum Master. His current interests lie in C#, Ruby, Boo, and objective C. When not programming, Ben enjoys speaking, blogging, spending time with his wife and five wonderful children or voiding warranties on his latest gadgets. Ben is a principal consultant with Sogeti. You can read his blog online at flux88.com. Also be sure to check out his recently published book ASP.NET in Action from Manning Press as well as his upcoming Guitar tabulature application for the iPhone – Pocket Tabs. You can find Pocket Tabs at pockettabs.com.
- An introduction to Ben Scheirman and how he got into web development
- Bens path through various web technologies such as ColdFusion, PHP, Ruby, and ASP.NET
- A brief discussion on code testability
- Working with ASP.NET web forms using the model view presenter pattern
- How ASP.NET MVC simplifies the testing process
- Ben informs us of how you can sell test driven development to a client…or sneak it in
- Regression testing
- We run through the process of refactoring and how you really should trust ReSharper
- We briefly touch upon the concept of Continuous Integration
- Ben discusses a new way of testing using MSpec to create documentation out of your unit tests
- This leads us into behavior driven development and context specification
- Next we discuss how twitter can be used as a developer tool
- Ben describes to us how he got involved with co-authoring ASP.NET MVC in Action and the process involved with writing a book based on “preview” code.
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