Why 2.5?
Previous to 2.5 came 2.2. But to highlight that changes between the two versions are pretty “dramatic” I chose to bump the version number. Fear not, not everything has been turned upside down.
NMoneys. Bumped to 2.5
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Tag-arkiv: Open Source
NMoneys 2.2
It is hard to believe the last release was on September. That only means one thing: I was about time!
There are quite a few changes in the release, so I will get straight to the point(s)
Money Allocation
2.2 should be a happy release. Why? Well, besides the fact it is the first release in more than 6 months it is the first one that contains code contributed by someone else but me.
Thank you, Berryl, for the feature, let’s hope it’s useful to many.
One After the Other
That is an enigmatic title to write about serialization. Well, sort of, as one of the meanings of the word refers to that concept.
But writing about successions is not my intention. My intention is to write about the technique that allows objects to be persisted to another medium different from their native memory space and more specifically on how to test serialization of objects.
Testing with ExpectedObjects
The other day I read an interesting post about testing and a library that might help in some cases, its title is “Introducing the Expected Objects” library. I thought it might be useful and so I spent a spare evening writing some code to check whether is something that could be useful for my team.
The Problem
Imagine you are testing a complex object: multiple properties, graphs of objects, collections… and you want to test the outcome of some operation on it and you are using NUnit as your testing framework.
Which strategies are available?
Testing.Commons goes 1.0
Let’s throw a party!
A Big Gap
Wait a second? Last release was 0.4.0.0, when stuff to test the profile system was added. “Either you have been terribly busy or you are tricking us.”
Well, more of the latter if you check the amount of code of the deltas committed. In reality my plan was to go 1.0 when all the code I previously had was ported. It turned out to be less than I thought as I trimmed out some parts I cannot use and clipped redundancies.
NMoneys.Exchange gets an Article as well
I am sure you are aware of both NMoneys and its companion.
I have written another article in The Code Project showing what can this extension to NMoneyscan do for you.
Enjoy your reading and comment on it.
Daniel Gonzalez Garcia
Vertica A/S
Configure Reality
Configuration in enterprise application is a fact of life.
My take on it is as follows: delay it as late as possible and hard-code in anger until someone asks for a change. Then, accepting the fact that is likely to happen again, the value is pushed into configuration.
Configuration can be as simple as a collection of key-value pairs. But sometimes, configuration needs to be more complex than key-value pairs; just imagine some sort of hierarchical structure or a simple collection of related values.
NMoneys 2.1.0.0
Not a lot of movement in NMoneys until now.
But the unthinkable, has happened: I have received an email notification for a change in the ISO standard for currencies!! After more than two years subscribed I finally received my first amendment newsletter. I totally attribute this event to changes in the maintenance agency, which changes are very welcome, Excel and XML tables of current and historic currencies, amongst others.
A Little more OSS
As the reader might have notice, I am a big advocate of testing. During the years that I have been practicing some flavor of testing I have been developing, borrowing and using small little classes (or bigger ones) and techniques to make my life easier and my code suck a little less.
I have decided that I might as well share them with more people and, who knows, the benefit might become mutual. That, and the fact that my code will be improved as it makes its way into the new projects, is why I am launching Testing.Commons.
NMoneys goes 2.0 and Gets Company
Wow, after a 1.6 version I decided to jump straight to 2.0.
Is it that big of a change? Well, not really, maybe a couple of breaking changes and features. But NMoneys 2.0 is just a side dish, the entrée is… NMoneys.Exchange 1.0
Is NMoneys Already Dead?
Not a chance! NMoneys.Exchange might steal some of its older brother’s thunder for some time, but NMoneys still plays the star role.
