About this blog
After reading Ben Lovell’s blog about test driven development using the Castle stack to make a blog engine (and meeting him today). I am now inspired to try my hand at something similar.
So, this blog is all about what it takes to build a bug tracker agile project management application using Castle MonoRail, ActiveRecord, Winsor, and Microsoft .NET 3.5. I’ll be posting interesting tips and knowledge about these technologies and how they work together step-by-step.
The resulting application will be available as Open Source and downloadable from Google Code.
I’ll be taking the same iterative test driven approach, to allow me to improve my own skills and provide another sample application for others learning how to use the Castle set of technologies.
About the tools
Here are a list of tools that I am currently using for this project:
- Visual Studio 2008
- ReSharper 4 with Agent Smith
- Castle MonoRail/Windsor/ActiveRecord
- NUnit
- Rhino Mocks
- WatiN
- TestDriven.NET
- NCover and NCover Explorer
- AutoHotKey (with this script for test names)
- Reflector.NET
- jQuery
- TortoiseSVN and Ankh 2
- FireBug and Web Developer Tool Bar
- PhotoShop Elements
- FamFamFam.com icons
- Vibrant Ink VS2008 Theme
Here is a list of tools that I would like to use in this project to improve my skills:
