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

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What I want in the new year

Getting the negativity out of my system before the end of the year comes with the promise of a new day and a fresh start in a new position. I was going to call this something like a developer's bill of rights but that's pompous and we don't have a "right" to any of this. I'm...

Published Mon, Dec 31 2007 9:57 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
My favorite new blog of 2007

New bloggers come all the time (and old ones stop producing), but my favorite new blog for 2007 was definitely Max Pool of Codesqueeze . Here's his self-compiled Best of Codesqueeze 2007 .

Published Mon, Dec 31 2007 8:27 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Back to Austin (OT)

Last year my family & I made the move from Austin to the NYC area. I've had a very pleasant run at Sungard FST (Finetix), and would happily recommend them if you're interested in doing development in the financial arena. From a personal perspective it's been obvious for some time that...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2007 12:13 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
The Wheel of Time will go on (Off Topic)

Not development related, but some of you are probably interested: Robert Jordan's wife has selected an author to finish the last WoT book: http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 10:59 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Cool new way to write more expressive testing DSL's in FitnesseDotNet

Check out Kenneth Kasajian's new PhraseFixture idea for more readable Fit style tests. Two thumbs up from me Kenneth.

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 11:13 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
The Dependency Injection Application Block from Patterns and Practices

In case you've missed it, Grigori Melnik has announced that the forthcoming version of the EntLib will include a new application block for Dependency Injection . I know there's been some level of disquiet about this announcement in ALT.NETish circles, but I think it's going to be a good thing...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 5:59 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: DI, IOC
My pick for altnetconf quote of the day

From James Gregory : "...if we only code to what the lowest-common-denominator can do then we're never going to get anywhere. " The context of this quote is doing a rehash of the old DataSet versus anything else argument. One pro-DataSet argument is simply that that's what our developers...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 12:09 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
TDD/BDD and Design by Contract: I don't really see any conflict between the two

I found an interesting link today from Mario Gleichmann called Test Driven Development and Design By Contract - friend or foe?. I've always been lukewarm toward Design by Contract (DbC). Occasionally I'll run into claims from DbC enthusiasts that using DbC completely eliminates the need or desire...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2007 8:26 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development
Spring loading your IoC Container

Ayende has a post up this morning called Inverting Inversion of Control where he talks about registering services with an IoC container at runtime. Ayende is specifically saying that this technique is useful for injecting services that you either can't control the creation of or simply want to construct...

Published Mon, Dec 10 2007 9:31 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap, StoryTeller
Alt.Net.UK has been announced

Check it out here on Ben Hall's blog . I won't be able to go, but I'm looking forward to reading the recaps from the other side of the Atlantic. The official website is http://www.altnetuk.com/

Published Fri, Dec 7 2007 7:21 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: altnetconf
Do you really know where that code has been?

Last week I did a talk at DevTeach called "Creating a Maintainable Software Ecosystem" ( the slide deck is here ). On one of my slides I had the following bullet point: NEVER build and deploy from a developer environment Even though it showed up on the slide I don't think I got around to...

Published Thu, Dec 6 2007 8:56 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Continuous Integration, StoryTeller, Featured
A Microcosm of Agile Design

Last week at DevTeach I did a talk entitled " How does Design get done on an Agile Project? " In the talk I tried to explain and defend the way that we design software on Agile/Lean projects. Among the issues that I talked about were: Return on investment. How to wrest the maximum business...

Published Tue, Dec 4 2007 8:55 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Featured
Microsoft P&P is building a new IoC/DI tool -- and I'm okay with that

In case you haven't already seen the announcement or Ayende's denouncement , the Patterns and Practices team is going to build a new Dependency Injection Application Block as part of the next wave of the Enterprise Library. As the primary builder of one of the Open Source IoC/DI tools you'd...

Published Mon, Dec 3 2007 7:53 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: DI, IOC

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What I want in the new year

My favorite new blog of 2007

Back to Austin (OT)

The Wheel of Time will go on (Off Topic)

Cool new way to write more expressive testing DSL's in FitnesseDotNet

The Dependency Injection Application Block from Patterns and Practices

My pick for altnetconf quote of the day

TDD/BDD and Design by Contract: I don't really see any conflict between the two

Spring loading your IoC Container

Alt.Net.UK has been announced

Do you really know where that code has been?

A Microcosm of Agile Design

Microsoft P&P is building a new IoC/DI tool -- and I'm okay with that