September 2008 - Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

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Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Sorry guys, but it's time to rant. I see so many people needlessly complicating their architecture and deployment by insisting on using separate assemblies for every layer of the app or even doing the trick where interfaces are in one assembly and the concrete classes are in another assembly. Stop...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2008 2:49 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Agile is more disciplined than Waterfal, so sayeth Jason Yip (and me)

Jason Yip has been one of my favorite bloggers for a long time. This morning I caught a post from Jason Yip called More thinking about "Agile" vs "Waterfall." He echoed something that I've thought ever since I moved over from a Waterfall shop to Agile shops about five years ago...

Published Sun, Sep 28 2008 11:28 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Using StructureMap 2.5 to inject your Entity objects into Services

Forget the neverending argument on the ALT.NET list about whether or not it’s acceptable to inject services into an Entity object (for the record, I say “no way”). What if you want to go the other way around? What if you want to request a service or a view or a command of some kind and have...

Published Thu, Sep 25 2008 3:27 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy's Penultimate Law of Continuous Integration

Just to add to Laribee's Final Rule of Continuous Integration about never going home with a broken build: Do not leave your giant check in until just before quitting time. The CI build will NEVER function correctly 5 minutes before quitting time. The CI build will fail spectacularly if it catches...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 9:20 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy's Other Laws of Continuous Integration

Since the first one inevitably irritated people, let's go for rule #2 & #3: 2.) Check in as often as you come to a stopping point. The more frequently you check in, the less troubling your merge conflicts will be. For the most part, I think you can make merge conflicts almost entirely go away...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 8:40 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy's First Law of Continuous Integration

If you check in very often and/or first, you can make merge conflicts be someone else's problem

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 3:31 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Question of the Day

The difficulty and pain of TDD adoption is a hot topic over the last couple days. I'm working on an article on testability and design this morning. In writing the summary I caught myself saying that there are some exceptional cases where I do unnatural things to promote testability, but that most...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 9:17 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Let's go back to the basics of Cohesion and Coupling

Recently, I've seen a nice trend out on the blogosphere on going back and revisiting the basics of programming like this post from Scott Hanselman and this podcast from the Herding Code gang . My contribution to this trend just went out in the October issue of MSDN Magazine. For the latest issue...

Published Sun, Sep 21 2008 9:44 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Nice quote from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz

...I don't like the term " best practices " - it sends out a "you don't have to think anymore" message which is oh-so-incorrect Read the rest from Arnon here: Architecture - It's always a tradeoff

Published Sat, Sep 20 2008 4:55 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
Pablo's Days of TDD

As Chad announced this week , the Los Techies guys are putting on a free developer event called "Pablo's Days of TDD*." The goal is to do a series of workshops and labs at the novice and intermediate levels. I'll be there leading some discussions and doing some little presentations...

Published Wed, Sep 17 2008 10:31 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
P&P Architectural Guidance Version 2

The Patterns and Practices team is *finally* updating their architectural guidance. You can see J. D. Meier's announcement of it here . Interestingly enough, they're going to do it through CodePlex. I love the new openness from Microsoft. Ages ago, I remember getting a lot of good out of the...

Published Thu, Sep 11 2008 7:06 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
The best (and next best) possible advice I could give you about using the MVC framework

I ditched quite a bit of some complicated server side state management / screen workflow around the MVC framework today in favor of just a little bit of client side code with the jQuery.Form component. The lesson learned today for me, and not for the first time, is to keep your MVC framework usage and...

Published Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:51 PM by Jeremy D. Miller
I'm surrounded!

Just out of coincidence, I'm wearing my Los Techies t-shirt today. My coworker Josh Flanagan joined Los Techies today. That makes me the lone CodeBetter guy in a sea of Los Techies guys in Austin. My team (minus Raif who doesn't blog and therefore isn't proven to exist) is at Los Techies...

Published Wed, Sep 10 2008 10:58 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
Using the StructureMap Container independently of ObjectFactory

From the StructureMap list I saw a link to an .Net IoC tool roundup that included some mildly inaccurate comments about StructureMap (which I’ll blame on lack o’ documentation for SM 2.5, it’s on my plate, I swear!). Specifically, the author states: With StructureMap, it was extremely hard to test...

Published Wed, Sep 10 2008 10:30 AM by Jeremy D. Miller
"Extension Method" in JavaScript

I have to admit a secret. I actually like JavaScript as a programming language -- especially now with jQuery and QUnit. It's more out of nostalgia for my earlier programming days doing DHTML applications than the fact that JavaScript is now chic in some circles. This morning I found myself wanting...

Published Mon, Sep 8 2008 7:41 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Agile is more disciplined than Waterfal, so sayeth Jason Yip (and me)

Using StructureMap 2.5 to inject your Entity objects into Services

Jeremy's Penultimate Law of Continuous Integration

Jeremy's Other Laws of Continuous Integration

Jeremy's First Law of Continuous Integration

Question of the Day

Let's go back to the basics of Cohesion and Coupling

Nice quote from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz

Pablo's Days of TDD

P&P Architectural Guidance Version 2

The best (and next best) possible advice I could give you about using the MVC framework

I'm surrounded!

Using the StructureMap Container independently of ObjectFactory

"Extension Method" in JavaScript