Writing IoC Supported Integration Tests using AutoFac

Using a dependency injection framework can greatly facilitate your code's testability in that you don't have any "glue" code for managing a classes' dependency that needs to be mocked (if even possible) when writing unit tests. But what about when writing integration tests? In such case you'd probably want to use your IoC container's configuration for resolving types in order to also verify the proper integration of your components, frankly your dependency injection configuration, right?

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Exploring JavaScript: Scope Pollution when instantiating JavaScript Objects

John Resig has written a very interesting article (I'm not able to find just now) on how the current scope might get polluted if you're accidentally invoking a function intended as an object constructor function without using the "new" keyword in front. Here's a simple example that illustrates the issue.

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Saying Goodbye to University

After my thesis presentation in march this year, my university career now ended officially with the degree ceremony last saturday. I remember when I first inscribed myself about 5 years ago, at the Free University of Bolzano at the faculty of computer science. The faculty (same as the university itself) is quite young. It actually celebrated its 10 year birthday a couple of days ago. And this was reflected also on the number of students, 5 years ago, when I first entered the Analysis class with about 70 people in total. Nothing compared to the really big universities. And after the 1st semester the number even diminished until, about a year later, we were a small, constant group of about 20 to 30 people in total.

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