Author: Erik Dietrich

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Getting Started as a Blogger: A Contract with Your Readers
ByErik Dietrich March 20, 2015March 22, 2015

This post has been a draft without words for a long time, evoking images of a jar of pickles that’s been in the fridge for 15 months. Someone says to me something like “man, I really want to start blogging but __________” and I say, “Don’t let that stop you — tell you what, I’ll write some tips and tricks.” The first time this happened was me buying the pickles and putting them in the fridge. Each subsequent time, I stick my head in and say, “yep, still have pickles and I’m totally going to eat them one of these nights.” Well, today is pickle-eating day.

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Reasoning About Code

What I Learned from Learning about SpecFlow
ByErik Dietrich March 18, 2015April 30, 2018

In my ChessTDD series, I was confronted with the need to create some actual acceptance tests. Historically, I’d generally done this by writing something like a console application that would exercise the system under test. But I figured this series was about readers/viewers and me learning alongside one another on a TDD journey through a…

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ChessTDD 27: Parameterized Acceptance Tests and Scenarios
ByErik Dietrich March 16, 2015

At this point, I’m not going to bother with excuses any longer and I’ll just apologize for the gaps in between these posts. But, I will continue to stick with it, even if it takes a year; I rarely get to program in C# anymore, so it’s fun when I do. In this episode, I…

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Run with It

Employers: Put Your Money where Your Mouth Is
ByErik Dietrich March 13, 2015December 29, 2016

Editorial Note: Since writing this post a couple of years ago, Dave has created a site in pursuit of his goal. He also interviewed me for it. I had an interesting exchange on Twitter a couple of days ago with Dave Schinkel. Here’s the most salient tweet: @daedtech thx, Good to know. I’m actually building…

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The Life of a Programmer

Lifting the Curse of Knowledge
ByErik Dietrich March 10, 2015July 2, 2018

public ActiveProduct(Product product, StringVersion driver, Side es) { Side = es; try { if (product == null) throw new Exception(“Can’t create an active product from a null product”); Logger.LogTimeStudyStart(“ActiveProduct create”); if (driver.IsEmpty()) CurrentDriver = product.Driver; else CurrentDriver = driver; _Device = Session.Instance.DeviceManager.CreateHI(es, CurrentDriver.ToString()); _Device.ConnectionStatus += Device_ConnectionStatus; _Device.BatteryStatus += Device_BatteryStatus; } catch (Exception ex) { ExceptionHandler.HandleException(ex);…

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