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  • Meffifying Windows Azure

    Magnus has been off doing some interesting work around integrating MEF with Windows Azure . The first question you might be asking is Why? In his words, he set out to build a template for Windows Azure templates that: enables testability abstracts away storage is extensible and easy to evolve during...
    Posted to Glenn Block by Glenn Block on 07-03-2009
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  • Move The Chair

    Last Sunday I took my family to Red Robin (a family style restaurant) after church. I requested a table with a high chair for my 3.5 yr old son. Upon bringing this high chair the hostess simply moved an adult chair to the side and put the high chair in its place. (See Image) This is where the fun began…...
    Posted to Rod Paddock by Rod Paddock [MVP] on 07-03-2009

  • HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful

    One of my team members was showing me some code in HandleUnknownAction based upon sample code in the online documentation . Per the documentation: “The following example shows how to render views that do not have a matching ActionResult method. For example, if you have a Details.aspx view but no...
    Posted to David Hayden [MVP C#] by David Hayden on 07-02-2009

  • ASP.NET MVC Extensibility at Tampa MVC Developer Group

    The Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group is starting to kick it up a notch with this month’s meeting being about ASP.NET MVC Extensibility . We have concluded our introductory topics and are now focusing on more intermediate topics. This month’s meeting will hit more advanced topics, such as...
    Posted to David Hayden [MVP C#] by David Hayden on 07-01-2009

  • The Videos for NDC 2009 are online

    The links to the videos recorded for NDC 2009 talks are online and linked in the agenda pages here . My talks are at: Lessons Learned from a Long Lived Codebase Presentation Patterns for Composite Applications (I'd dearly appreciate feedback from folks on this talk) Convention over Configuration...

  • Reporting against a domain model

    I have a love it /hate it relationship with reports. In many an application the reports are the main output. They are the prints which get filed or the invoices which have to ensure the ROI of the application. A good looking output rich with information does increase customer satisfaction. The downside...
    Posted to Peter's Gekko by pvanooijen on 07-01-2009
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  • Check out Virtual ALT.NET

    Several months ago a few people started hosting a Virtual ALT.NET meeting right here on the information super highway. I've been to a few and they're always packed with information and good conversation. It's a great way to learn new things or show off cool stuff you've been working on...
    Posted to Aaron Jensen by aaronjensen on 06-30-2009
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  • Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests

    When we started our current project we did not use context/specification style testing , instead we used testcase-per-class with a four-phase test model (also known as arrange-act-assert ). Although we followed story-test driven development (STDD) we were not explicitly Behavior-Driven Development BDD...
    Posted to Ian Cooper by Ian Cooper on 06-29-2009

  • Fighting Fabricated Complexity

    Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE During my interview on Code Metrics by Scott Hanselman’s on Software Metrics , Scott had a particularly relevant remark. Basically, while I was explaining that long and complex methods are killing quality and should be split into smaller methods, Scott...
    Posted to Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#] by Patrick Smacchia on 06-28-2009

  • MSpec... for Boo!

    Jeffery Olson (a fellow Eleutian guy) has put in some good effort to create a very readable, very clean MSpec DSL for Boo. You should give it a gander .
    Posted to Aaron Jensen by aaronjensen on 06-28-2009
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  • Talking conventions with the Hanselman

    Scott Hanselman posted a podcast he & I recorded at NDC last week. We nominally talked about applying conventions and opinionated software to .Net, then we went off on every possible tangent that presented itself.

  • The “Anti-For” Campaign

    Recently, there has been an effort launched called the “Anti-If Campaign” in which they deride the use of if statements and instead, focus on Object Oriented Principles in order to create more flexible designs.  Now certainly, I have a sympathetic ear to this cause as I’ve seen code that literally...
    Posted to Matthew Podwysocki by Matthew.Podwysocki on 06-26-2009

  • Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question”

    This post is over a week in the making. I attended AltNetBeers #9 last week in London which is making a quick rise in my list of top developer-related events, big or small. And that’s not just because I got one of the best compliments ever from someone who claims his non-IT friend reads a single IT-related...
    Posted to Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly by Kyle Baley on 06-25-2009
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  • Ubiquitous Language in Product Development

    Hi there. I got this question from a fellow named Martin today: Real simple ... most of the discussion on DDD surrounds the design in terms of the ubiquitous language. What if you are developing a product that is designed to be a tool for a certain industry, say marketing, but the processes and terminology...
    Posted to Dave Laribee by Dave Laribee on 06-24-2009
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  • Providing Safe Alternatives

    When I was reading through Real World Haskell , I was struck several times by the mention of providing safe function alternatives.  The idea is to provide a function that in all cases returns a value as well as the one which is meant to accept valid input and throw exceptions should that contract...
    Posted to Matthew Podwysocki by Matthew.Podwysocki on 06-24-2009
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