Noise from the Basement

I’m happy to announce that BEMCheckBox v2.0.0 has been released! It is a open source library making it easy to create beautiful, highly customizable, animated checkboxes for iOS. You can find the install instructions here.

This a forked release as it does not appear the original project by Boris-EM is supported. If Boris-EM, or anyone else with access to original repo, is reading this I’m happy to merge my changes back. It should be noted that don’t have great track record of supporting my open source projects but I’m hoping to improve my stats.

Similar to the previous episode I fail at adding a system test. Should I be live coding all these failures? I think so. Maybe? Do they make boring videos? Probably. Should I say “ummm” less? Most definitely.

I think there are enough highly edited videos of success already it’s good to see some failures. To remind everyone that success takes work and often wrong paths. At least that sounds better then I don’t enjoy video editing so I just post what I record with minimal changes/edits.

Today, July 28th, 2023, is System Administrator Appreciation Day. A day I didn’t know existed until now but has been around since 2000.

It was during one of my first paid technical positions that I realized that sys admins, and other support staff including non-technical, can be a thankless job. A job where your only interactions with others is when something goes wrong.

During university I had a summer job as a Systems Analyst Trainee at TELUS Advertising Services (TAS). TAS was division of TELUS that created the phone books, both white (residential) and yellow (businesses) pages. I did typical IT tasks at the time such as setting up new computers with token ring network cards and helping staff issues such as accessing email. Also lots of printer issues.

I, Chris, try to add a system test for the todo bug fix in episode 5 but run into some issues. I find out I stupidly hard coded the todo file name when he first added the ability to generate a todo file in Standard. When recording this video I think that is why his system test doesn’t work but upon re-watching this video I have my doubts. Only time will tell if my doubts are correct or not.

I’m happy to announce that NConstraints v1.1.1 has been released! This release updates the NuGet package from .NET Standard 1.6 to 2.0 and should work with all versions of NUnit 3.

You can install NConstraints via the dotnet command line:

dotnet add package SaturdayMP.NConstraints --version 1.1.1

Other install options can be found here.

NConstraints currently only has one constraint called EquivalentPropertyWiseTo. It checks if all the property values on two objects are the same. Instead of writting:

[Test]
public void TestObjectsTheSame()
{
  var expected = new ExpectedClass() { ValueOne = 1, ValueTwo = "Blah", ValueThree = 33 };

  var actual = MethodBeingTested();
   
  Assert.That(expected.ValueOne, Is.EqualTo(actual.ValueOne));
  Assert.That(expected.ValueTwo, Is.EqualTo(actual.ValueTwo));
  Assert.That(expected.ValueThree, Is.EqualTo(actual.ValueThree));
}

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