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Archives for December 2017

What I Learned Working On Time Tortoise in 2017

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Dec 31 0

2017 Desert Sunset

On January 4, 2017, I described a programming project that I would work on this year. That project is Time Tortoise, a Windows 10 app for time tracking. In this final post of 2017, I’ll review what I learned this year from the Time Tortoise project.

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Time Tortoise: Future Plans

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Dec 21 2

Future

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page.

I’m wrapping up a year of working on my Time Tortoise programming project. Next week, I’ll post an overview of what I learned from the project. For this week, I have some ideas about where the project might go in the future.

But first, let’s review the current state of the project.

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Time Tortoise: Using SystemWrapper for Unit Testing, Part 3

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Dec 16 0

Wrapped Computer

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page.

In two previous articles, I wrote about SystemWrapper, a library that makes it easier to test code that depends on .NET system APIs. In this article, I’ll provide more details on how I use SystemWrapper for Time Tortoise testing.

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Time Tortoise: Resolving Dependencies, Part 4

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Dec 9 0

Process Monitor

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page.

Last week, I upgraded the Time Tortoise projects to .NET Standard 2.0, and also upgraded related NuGet packages that had .NET Standard 2.0 versions. The upgrade was mostly successful, but it broke a few unit tests. In the process of fixing them this week, I had to find yet another technique for resolving dependencies.

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