Daily tip #2: Enable word flow in WP 8.1
As many of you already know, Windows Phone 8.1 comes with the word flow keyboard. This means that you can swipe in order to write text, instead of typing character by character. However, word...
What can you do with DriveKit?
Here are some of the most important features in DriveKit. As I update the app I will add them here and explain them to you. If you try the app, please give it a...
Daily tip #1: Caliburn.Micro IoC is not initialized
It’s been more than half a year since I made this blog and I haven’t made more than 10 posts, so I thought that I should start writing all kinds of stuff that I...
Myths about TDD
Maybe you’ve seen that in the last few weeks there have been some debates about TDD. It all started with David Heinemeier Hansson(@dhh) who said in a blog post that TDD is dead because...
Windows Phone TDD Part 4: The proper way to do MVVM
A few days ago a friend asked me if you should put the business logic in the Models and the ViewModels from MVVM. Basically, my answer was like this: I will talk about just two...
Windows Phone TDD Part 3: Writing the first test
In the previous tutorial you saw how I installed Caliburn.Micro in my project. Now I will show you how to create the project for the unit tests, and I will write a small test...
Windows Phone TDD Part 2: Working with Caliburn.Micro
The only MVVM libraries that I tried until now are MVVM Light and Caliburn.Micro. Although I think the first one is really good, I don’t like that I have to put stuff like Commands in...
Windows Phone TDD Part 1: The Project
As I mentioned in my previous article, I recently started to learn Test Driven Development. Although the hardest part for most developers is getting used to writing tests first, for Windows Phone developers there’s...
Why TDD makes me a happy developer
In the last few months I started to learn TDD(Test Driven Development), and I think it was the best decision I could make regarding my developer career. For those of you who don’t know,...