March 2007 - Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

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I'm "code complete" on StructureMap 2.0! Release to follow.

The real release will be over the weekend, but I'm calling myself "code complete" for now on StructureMap development for the long delayed 2.0 release. If you're curious, the bits are in SVN at https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/structuremap/trunk. I'll make a much longer set of...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2007 9:11 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap
Dispassionately Disregard Sunk Costs while Making Architectural Decisions

From Wikipedia , In economics and in business decision-making, sunk costs are costs that have already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree. In regards to software, I think of a sunk cost as a piece of existing infrastructure that's already completed or purchased. It's...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2007 9:50 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
The only thing I miss from VB6

There was some VB6 abuse from me & other commenters yesterday. I gotta say that I do miss one thing (maybe two): Intellisense for enumerations was better in VB6 than VS & C# With/End With - sorta I can't think of anything good to say about COM/COM+/DCOM. They can stay dead to me.

Published Tue, Mar 27 2007 11:56 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Metaprogramming with JavaScript

JavaScript, even more so than VB, has to be the Rodney Dangerfield of programming languages. I'm going to blow whatever credibility I might have by saying "I actually like programming in JavaScript." I'm actually building a lot of the screens in StoryTeller with JavaScript running in...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2007 1:13 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StoryTeller
New Client, New Project - What do you want to know?

I'm starting at a new client in a couple weeks. Last time I did this I created My Gameplan for Starting a New Project . I think it mostly held up with a few exceptions, mostly around the quality of the upfront analysis leading into the initial story list. I think next time I'd like to get just...

Published Fri, Mar 23 2007 12:57 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Starting a new Project
More testing code than production code is typical, but don't let that stop you

Ian Cooper recently wrote about the Ratio of test code to production code . Ian is saying that he's routinely seeing a 1:1 or even 1.5:1 ratio of test code to production code. From my experience with TDD, that's about normal. Some kinds of code will go even higher. For example, any kind of significant...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2007 3:45 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development
I wish I'd written this post...

Andres Taylor on the Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me Nice. Via http://blogs.thoughtworks.com

Published Thu, Mar 22 2007 3:34 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
The Don't Repeat Yourself Principle and the Wormhole Anti-Pattern

Getting back on track with the " Maintainability " series of posts. I'm doing this way too late at night, so the coherence might be lacking. Don't Repeat Yourself Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a statement exhorting developers to avoid duplication in code. Duplication isn't...

Published Wed, Mar 21 2007 11:07 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap, Maintainability
Really fast way to get a StackOverflowException

From some StoryTeller work this morning after using a ReSharper "Lift Superclass" refactoring: public Test Test { get { return Test; } set { Test = value ; } } If NUnit ever goes really, really wacky on you and starts to fail, StackOverflowException is a likely candidate. I found this one quick fortunately...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2007 8:50 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
MVP Summit Recapped: Linq for Entities, MonoRail, and Shameless Name Dropping

Just to get this out of the way, here is my recap from the MVP summit. You will find something to argue about here, and that's okay. LINQ for Entities is NOT the O/R Mapper I want today, but might be if and when they... As it stands right now, I would still choose NHibernate (or WilsonORMapper) over...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2007 4:28 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Linq for NHibernate

I am putting a post together on what we saw from Linq to Entities this week, but let's just say that I thought the only compelling technical advantage it had over NHibernate is Linq queries. One of the smart aleck comments somebody made was that Ayende would probably add a Linq frontend to NHibernate...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2007 5:46 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
More from the MVP Summit: Go forth and see the world!

There are obviously exceptions, but as a whole, the entire .Net community would be much better off if we would collectively pay more attention to and interact more with other development communities and traditions. I was somewhat agitated at the obvious feelings of novelty and excitement when features...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2007 9:26 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Software Factories at the MVP Summit

I've been dubious about software factories for a long time, but I'm coming around a little bit. I see factories mostly being useful as just a bit more than what people already do today with things like CodeRush. I think it would be a helpful mechanism for small scale skeletal code generation for things...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2007 9:15 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Jay's TDD QuickStart, and the underlying problems he stumbled into

Jay Kimble , CodeBetter's resident AJAX guru, issued a little challenge to us TDD bloggers about using Test Driven Development to develop a custom extension to the MS Ajax ScriptManager control . In the comments, Jeff Perrin (you need to blog more Jeff) proposes a solution that's about what I...

Published Wed, Mar 7 2007 2:05 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development, Maintainability
The Road to Coding Hell is paved with Cobblestones of Expediency

My team is in one of those little jams that seem to happen so frequently near the very end of development. We have a last minute requirement that requires us to treat a database entity a little bit differently depending on how the entity was created in the first place. What are we going to do you ask...

Published Wed, Mar 7 2007 11:52 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

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I'm "code complete" on StructureMap 2.0! Release to follow.

Dispassionately Disregard Sunk Costs while Making Architectural Decisions

The only thing I miss from VB6

Metaprogramming with JavaScript

New Client, New Project - What do you want to know?

More testing code than production code is typical, but don't let that stop you

I wish I'd written this post...

The Don't Repeat Yourself Principle and the Wormhole Anti-Pattern

Really fast way to get a StackOverflowException

MVP Summit Recapped: Linq for Entities, MonoRail, and Shameless Name Dropping

Linq for NHibernate

More from the MVP Summit: Go forth and see the world!

Software Factories at the MVP Summit

Jay's TDD QuickStart, and the underlying problems he stumbled into

The Road to Coding Hell is paved with Cobblestones of Expediency