The Gryphin Experience

In the last installment of our series, we discussed the topic of Context Obscurity along with strategies for avoiding the creation of obscure tests. As the final topic of this series, we’ll take an introductory look at the practice of writing Automated Acceptance Tests.

With this article, we will start a series of articles to review the customization of work item type definition in the context of changes that we observe in work item tracking in TFS 2010. In this article, we will cover the tools and process to export work item type definition from an existing team project and then import it back with some modifications. We will use command line tools and XML editing in the notepad. We will also see how to export and import Global Lists from TFS.

We began a series of articles on Customize work item type definition in TFS 2010. In the first part of this series we had seen how to use a tool WitAdmin to export the work item type definition of Bug work item and then import it back in TFS after making a small modification in it, as Defect work item type definition. In this article, we will do a non-trivial modification in the Defect work item, using Team Foundation Power Tool.

The best way to understand how interfaces improve software design  is to see a familiar problem solved using interfaces. First, take a tightly-coupled system design without  interfaces, spot its deficiencies and then walk-through a solution of the problem with a design using interfaces.

Windows only: Keep your desktop or any other folder on your hard drive organized and under control with Belvedere, an automated Windows file management tool. Use Belvedere's friendly interface to create advanced rules to move, copy, delete, rename, or open files based on their name, extension, size, creation date, and more.

Boomerang is een plugin voor GMail die zichzelf in je Chrome en Firefox nestelt en zich alleen op de plek daarvoor bestemd (in Gmail) zelf tevoorschijn laat komen. Boomerang stelt je in staat jouw mailbox weer “te managen”.

Een goede en gratis tool om een video-dvd naar een handzamer formaat te converteren, is HandBrake.

With somewhere around 200 apps on my phone at any given time, it can be a pain to scroll through all of them to find what I'm looking for. Categorizing apps into handy folders can also be time-consuming. Fazik Logic takes the concept of sorting your apps one step further however with LiveSorter, a new app that automatically sorts installed applications into appropriate categories.

With more and more carriers going to tiered and limited data plans, smartphone owners have to keep a closer eye on how they use their mobile data. Thankfully there are applications that can help you out. Onavo Lite is an Android application that helps you manage your 3G/4G data, and even sniff out apps that are taking more than your fair share. There’s also a number of interesting features that to assist you, such as restricting certain apps to WiFi only. The iOS counterpart, has a “data-shrinking” feature which helps you squeeze the most out of every last kilobyte, and the developer promised it’s coming soon to the Android version.

Explore more ways to play with your Dolphin Browser HD with over 50 Add-ons. From changing your browsers color to saving a web page as PDF for an offline read, Add-ons enhance your toolbox in Dolphin Browser HD. Here are the top 10 most popular.

If there is one thing I constantly have to think about on a pretty much daily basis, it's juice. Not the kind of juice you pour yourself in the morning at breakfast, but the kind that is needed to power by insatiable electronics on the go. Last August, Phonesuit sent me a review unit of their 1000 mAh Primo Cube, but this year they really stepped up their game and sent over a whopping 8200 mAh portable charger called the Primo Power Core, compared to which the Cube is a mere drop in the bucket.

Er zijn al ontzettend veel variaties op planking aan het ontstaan. Maar batmanning is toch onze favoriet!

This question comes up a lot: web devs need a solution for testing websites on different versions of Internet Explorer. One answer to this are the “Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image” files, made available for download.

Are you a print designer, photographer, fine-artist, or general creative person? Do you have a shitty website that you slapped together yourself in Dreamweaver in that ONE web design class that you took in college? Do you not have a site at all because you’ve been waiting two years for your cousin to put it together for you? Well, we’re here to help. We know that you have little to no desire to do web design professionally, but that doesn’t mean that you want an ugly cookie-cutter site or to settle for one that hasn't been updated since Hackers was in theaters. Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic wordpress blog and manipulate the css, html (and even some php!) to match your aesthetic. You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet and worst case scenario you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

Bang dat je laptop, smartphone, tablet of computer gestolen wordt of dat je ‘m een keer zelf hebt kwijtgeraakt? Als je het anti-diefstal programma Prey installeert kun je contact opnemen met het apparaat zodra het een verbinding met internet legt. Zo kun je informatie achterhalen en acties ondernemen (screenshot) die de kans vergroten op het terughalen of terugvinden van je apparaat.

The best free Android media player apps that would let you enjoy melodies, watch videos and much more that too without paying even a single penny. Check out the collection of 15+ Best Free Android Media Player Apps and experience listening music and watching videos on your Android smartphones.

Android has quite a few mobile video players available, so as users, it can be difficult to choose the best without trying them all one by one. There are so many things to be considered – and you can’t always rely on ratings alone.

To help narrow down the choices for you, we’ve collected a list of Android’s top mobile video players, so you can just get on with the fun of watching your videos.

When it comes to camera apps, it has been a while since I've really been wowed by anything I've seen. Most offer the same features – saturation, color effects, maybe some sort of Polaroid replica… you get the idea. I guess the dev team at JFDP Labs felt the same way, because they have put together the most impressive camera app that I've ever seen, simply called Paper Camera.

Paper Camera offers some very cool effects like cartoon, sketch, comic book, old printer, neon, bleaching, half tone, noir, old newspaper, and more. Not only are the effects top-notch, but it all happens in real-time. No post-processing going on here — what you see on the screen is exactly what you get.

Pano is an award-winning app that lets you take beautiful, seamless panoramic photos straight from your phone, no other software necessary. Pano has gotten rave reviews from hundreds of thousands of users around the world.

TouchRetouch allows you to remove unwanted content or objects from your photos to achieve new beautiful look.

AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is not a regular task manager.

AutoKiller is an award winner minfree tweaker, it fine tunes android systems inner memory manager to keep your device fast over time. As a side effect it also lowers battery consumption. Also includes a manual process/service manager.

In LINQ, queries have two different behaviors of execution: immediate and deferred. In this article, we will take a quick overview of how Deferred query execution and Immediate Query Execution works in LINQ

When building web sites we has developers or designers have to take into consideration all the different types of devices that can be used to access the web sites we create. Not just PC or Mac with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Jaws, or any other browser. But also mobile devices, like iPhones, iTouch, Nintendo Wii.

Especially in recent years, after the launch of the iPhone, accessing online information through a mobile device has become more common. This is something that is going to increase even more in the next few years.

Below I’ve listed some resources for creating a mobile version of a web site that I hope you’ll find useful.

Welcome to Part 1 of a two-part tutorial on building complete mobile web applications in JavaScript using DocumentCloud's Backbone.js, jQuery Mobile and LABjs.

In Part 1, I'll be covering a complete run-down of Backbone 0.5.2's models, views, collections and routers but also taking you through options for correctly namespacing your Backbone application. I'll also give you some tips including what scaffolding tool that can save time setting up your initial application, the ideal number of routers to use and more.

jQuery supports a large subset of selectors defined by the CSS3 Selectors draft standard. Additionally it also contains some very useful pseudo classes (similar to :first-child, :hover etc). Due to its extensible framework, the best part is that jQuery lets you create and define your own custom selectors with ease. In this article, we will learn how to create our own custom selector that identifies all the mailto: links on a page.

It is a common predicament: You have an HTML fragment with a table, list or dictionary  in it, generated from some data, and you have to render it in such a way that the data is easy to read, and the information presented in such a way as to prevent misunderstandings: However, you can't alter the HTML source in order to add CSS classes to individual elements. We'll take a couple of practical examples to show how you can solve this sort of problem.

Quartz.NET is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be used from smallest apps to large scale enterprise systems.

As a developer who has been developing data oriented .NET applications for over a decade now, I have become a strong believer of the fact that a developer’s knowledge is incomplete, without having knowledge of the database and network he/she is interacting with. In this article, I will be sharing 25 T-SQL Scripts and Tutorials from my blog that I feel would be useful for a developer creating .NET Centric Database Solutions.

It is never a good idea to let your users be the ones to tell you of database server outages. It is far better to be able to spot potential problems by being alerted for the most relevant conditions on your servers at the best threshold. This will take time and patience, but the reward will be an alerting system which allows you to deal more effectively with issues before they involve system down-time

PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best… HTML and JavaScript.

Browse the jQuery Mobile components and learn how to make rich, accessible, touch-friendly websites and apps.

The life cycle of an ASP.NET application starts with a request sent by a browser to the Web server like IIS. If you are an ASP.NET developer who creates modules and handlers, it’s important to understand the the HTTP Request Lifecycle in IIS. This article will give you an overview of the order of events fired in the Request Life Cycle in IIS pipeline

How to enumerate a HashTable using an IDictionaryEnumerator

To understand how to write SQL code for SQL Server  that performs well, it is important to appreciate how the query optimizer works. Ben Nevarez explains the essentials, in a broad sweep through a complex subject, in an article taken from his new book 'Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer'.

Android doesn't offer a native backup service, so it's easy to ignore the need to do so. But don't wait until it's too late to start thinking about backing up your phone. Many of us rely on our phone cameras to snap day-to-day photos of our lives and save text messages to have some of the most important conversations. So before a thief swipes that phone, or a spilled cup of coffee bricks it, follow these tips…

It has only been several weeks since Google+ opened its door to limited users and it has already created plenty of buzz. While many people still have not gotten their invites, there are already 10 million users on the platform and a billion items shared per day. If you find yourself terribly addicted to Google+, Here are 15 Google Chrome extensions that make using Google+ a better experience.

At Google, we all use email very heavily — for communicating with other Googlers, for task management, and to mail around funny pictures of kittens. Because of the volume of email we all deal with, a lot of Googlers subscribe to the “inbox zero” philosophy where we try to keep our inboxes empty except for the messages we currently need to deal with.

What is Gmail Snooze?
One feature that some of us really wanted was for Gmail to let you “snooze” an email. Snoozing means archiving an email for now, but having it automatically reappear in the inbox at some specified time in the future. With Apps Script you can extend Gmail to add this functionality and a lot more yourself.

Last year map geek Eric Fischer created heat maps showing where Flickr photos are taken in large cities and comparing tourist vs. local hotspots. Now he’s back again with beautiful maps showing geotagged Flickr photos and Twitter Tweets, and the maps aren’t limited to cities — there’s maps for continents (see North America above) and even the whole world! The orange dots show photos, the blue ones indicate Tweets, and a white one means both were found in that location.

Android 2.3.3 – GingerBread & Sense… No Gimmick's, No Bullshit..

This app allows you to quickly change your wallpaper with one single click on a widget!
Additionally, you can enable a timer to automatically change your wallpaper on a predefined time.
Images can easily be added to the rotation list by using the Android Gallery app, to change the widget icon press the menu button in the app and select "Preferences".
This app is optimized for battery life & performence, so it might take some seconds to actually change the wallpaper after a click on the widget!

Not using any pattern-, PIN- or password-lock is a huge security problem, but reentering your PIN a hundred times a day can also be annoying. DelayedLock is a solution to this problem: After unlocking your phone, it will turn the lock screen off for a user defined amount of time. You can turn your phone off and on as often as you want without entering your password/PIN/pattern again. After a certain time, it will automatically reactivate your lockscreen, so no stranger can access your personal data. Additionally, there is also a notification in the Android status bar and a widget to immediately reenable the lock screen.

DeskSMS forwards your text messages to your GMail, Google Chat, and DeskSMS Chrome extension! And if you reply back, the recipient gets a text from your number…

We've all been there: You played Angry Birds for too long or manually refreshed your Gmail inbox incessantly. Before you knew it, your battery was in the red. Unfortunately, this app won't help that, but for everyone else who uses their phone in moderate-to-heavy amounts without needing to always be on it, I'd suggest Juice Defender Ultimate.

A lot of folks ask why AutoMapper doesn’t have as much built-in niceties for reverse mapping (DTOs –> Persistent object models). Besides this model promoting, even enforcing anemic, promiscuous domain models, we simply found another way to handle complexity in our form POSTs.

If you've suddenly found yourself responsible for maintaining and backing up your company's servers, you're an 'accidental DBA'. If you're someone who has been dropped in the deep end, let Grant Fritchey show you through the backup and restore functionality of Red Gate's SQL Backup Pro, showing you how to schedule regular backups, compress, restore and document your backups with ease.

When William produced his second article on the free tool 'SQL Scripts Manager', revealing that it worked just as well with PowerShell and Python scripts as it does with TSQL, he thought that would be the end of the series. Oh no; in response to feedback, comes a small add-in called  'Script Generator'  that makes a big difference to the speed of developing and  producing new scripts.

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Symplify dynamic JavaScript UIs by applying the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern
Key Concepts:
- Declarative Bindings: Easily associate DOM elements with model data using a concise, readable syntax
- Automatic UI Refresh: When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically
- Dependency Tracking: Implicitly set up chains of relationships between model data, to transform and combine it
- Templating: Quickly generate sophisticated, nested UIs as a function of your model data

Rinse is the smartest way to seamlessly organize and repair your iTunes music library. We’re powered by an intelligent online database which finds what you need without searching or typing.

Wil je een iTunes-account aanmaken, dan heb je een kredietkaart nodig, en dat is ook het geval als je enkel gratis apps of muziek wil downloaden. Met een klein trucje maak je een iTunes-account aan zonder kredietkaart (je kan dan natuurlijk geen betalende muziek of apps downloaden).

If you love Facebook so much that you’d like to see your content on your coffee table, then we’ve got seven superb solutions for getting your Facebook profile and photos made into real-life books.

Like little kids, we all experience a happy rush, a delighted thrill, when going to play at an amusement park. Yet when an amusement park is abandoned and an eerie silence settles over the rusty and crusty decay, the setting seems to twist the atmosphere of enthusiastic excitement into a suffocating blanket of dread. The place takes on creepy vibes and freaks people out.

I don’t know about you, but I like my sd cards to be clean and in order.  I find it difficult to maneuver around in them when my sd card is extremely cluttered with cached content from previously used apps download who knows when?  In steps App Cache Cleaner for Android.

Android Optimizer is a Swiss Army Knife for your mobile phone.
This powerful app has 9 sections, 15 functions such as Device scan, Quick settings, Startup manager, App manager, Program manager, Cache cleaner, File explorer, Power saving settings, and Device infor. Those powerful and comprehensive tools form a 360 angle protection for your Smartphone can always keep your Smartphone in the best state

While I may love many, many things about Android, that doesn’t mean that it lacks any annoyances. Of those annoyances, the inability to mount the SD card in the phone and PC simultaneously ranks close to the top of the list. Thankfully, there are apps like Dual Mount SD Widget to save the day.

a quick, simple, catagorised application launcher. The idea is to pin the app to your homescreen, and launch your apps from there. It frees up all that homescreen real-estate into just one button

If there's always been one stock app I've heard people gripe about, it's the gallery. QuickPic aims to be your total gallery replacement, eschewing some of the eye candy Android's gallery offers and giving you heaping bundles of functionality in its stead.

Instead of the slick, floating stack of pictures the normally gallery gives you, you're granted a static list. No cool effects, no changing angles as you move your phone, nothing. What you do get, however, is speed. The list loads near instantly (at least with my meager amount of albums). I mean, hey, the app is called QuickPic.

The Essen 2011 release will be Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on Discworld, as created by the mind of Sir Terry Pratchett.

Letting photos shine by adding some subtle effects is something you learn to do by trial and error. Some photos will work perfect for certain effects and others won't, but it's something we creatives love to experiment with. One of the more popular effects is creating some kind of a vintage color effect. You create a certain atmosphere and it can give more depth when you add these kind of effects the right way. As always, finding the right balance in how much effect you add is crucial.

We are living in a time where ‘convergence’ is everywhere. Gone are the days when a camera was a camera, a MP3 player was an MP3 player, a phone was a phone….

T. Rex (Tyrannosaurus Rex), one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that lived during the late Cretaceous period is still a popular symbol in our culture. This gorgeous watermelon T Rex is ideal for a child's party, a humorous addition to an office or home party, and as a great idea to take with you to a potluck or tailgate party. It also makes a fantastic centerpiece.