Ever since I bought my NOMAD MuVo^2 I wanted a way to create playlists by genre. I couldn't find an easy way to do this with Windows Media Player 10, and since the MuVo^2 is treated as a removable drive I was able to easily write a little app.
I give you Fanzoo's Amazing Genre Playlist Generator!
Ok, I'm not really giving it to you yet, but I will soon.
Speaking of that, does anyone know of a good open source download/file lister gizmo/widget? I'd like to put some various source code up for people to download, but want a nice way for users to view it.
Also, while creating this little playlist generator I decided to fully unit test it using NUnit and the TestDriven.NET (aka NUnit Addin) plugging for Visual Studio. I love it. It seriously beats attaching to the NUnit GUI process to step through your test cases to figure out what's wrong.
While doing this I thought of something. It seems that the typical situation I have found is that when a unit test fails, instead of fixing the code that is breaking the test, I end up fixing the test to work with the code. That's not really the path that is driven home by unit test enthusiasts. Am I the only bass aackwards developer who sees this as a pattern, or is this common?
posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:44 AM