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I'm a free agent

I quit my job today, and it's been one of the best days I've ever had. It's felt like a large weight lifting off of my chest. EDIT 4/5/2008: Chad & I are still getting some nasty emails, so I've removed everything that could possibly give our former boss anything to complain about...

Published Wed, Apr 2 2008 3:21 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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We need ALT.NET to supplement the traditional .Net leadership

One of the roles I’d like ALT.NET fulfill within the greater .Net community is to be a second pole of leadership and thought. I say a “second” pole, because the .Net community already has a long standing traditional leadership -- the book authors, the MVP’s*, the INETA speakers, and whatnot. They’ve...

Published Sun, Mar 30 2008 4:34 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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500th Post

This is my 500th post on CodeBetter, and as Dogbert would say, it's a big, round, scary number. I can't imagine that I'll ever make it to a 1,000, so I'll do my retrospective now. It's been a fun ride and I'd like to think Brendan for running CodeBetter and making it what it is...

Published Sat, Feb 16 2008 10:17 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

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First Causes: Reversibility

I've just started a blog series to talk about how the first causes of software development can help us make better choices and decisions. In previous posts I talked about how we can know something and how to decide what is good . For my very first deep dive I want to talk about Reversibility. It's...

Published Sun, Feb 10 2008 9:53 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Featured
Interception techniques in StructureMap 2.5

The 2.5 release of StructureMap is at least 6 weeks away, but I'd like to throw some more stuff out to get some feedback while I've got plenty of time to deviate. I'm building in much more interception capabilities into StructureMap to support runtime AOP and other scenarios. I don't...

Published Sun, Jan 27 2008 9:21 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap, Featured
Some new ways to build objects in StructureMap with less configuration

I'm getting close to code complete on the forthcoming 2.5 release of StructureMap and I'm focusing on ease of use features and fullblown interception support for AOP tooling (runtime AOP to be provided by something else though). StructureMap has had some support in the last couple releases to...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2008 10:48 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap, Featured
Build your own CAB: Extensible Pub/Sub Event Aggregator with Generics

There's been a bit of chatter today on the altdotnet list about whether to use the CAB, another framework, or roll your own . It seemed like a good time to get off my duff and start writing some new installments in the Build your own CAB series. When I wrote an earlier installment on the Event Aggregator...

Published Fri, Jan 11 2008 1:35 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Featured, Build your own CAB
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

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A Train of Thought: November 13th, 2007 Edition

I'm cheating here, because I'm writing this from my kitchen table. My current client is one of the big investment banks. While I'm not too enthusiastic about their culture, I can seriously get into having all the banking holidays off. I went to part of the Westchester/Fairfield County Code...

Published Tue, Nov 13 2007 6:57 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Featured
Be not afraid of the Visitor, the big, bad Composite, or their little friend Double Dispatch

Last week or so there was a thread on the altnetconf message board that about a usage of the Visitor pattern for validating a hierarchy of objects. At work I'm using the Visitor pattern with some frequency in my financial projects to deal with heterogeneous collections of financial elements. Over...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2007 9:13 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Design Patterns, StoryTeller, Featured
ALT.NET Recap: Front and center, let's talk constructively about Mort

There's much, much more to follow from this past weekend. This just happened to be the section I managed to get done first. Please don't get the impression that all we did is sit around and bash Mort, because that's very far from the truth. Most of the time was spent trying to learn how to...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 9:39 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Featured, altnetconf
From a TDD Fanboy's viewpoint, how you know your approach to TDD or just plain unit testing is working?

I've had a couple conversations the past couple weeks about extending test coverage in the user interface and the necessity of writing integrated tests. One person wished his team were doing more automated testing through the UI (web app), and the other person just assumed that testing the UI (WinForms...

Published Mon, Oct 1 2007 6:42 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Test Driven Development, Featured
Just some little fundamental things to help you CodeBetter

I'm a big believer in learning the fundamentals of coding and design. To me, things like design patterns, design principles, and code smells are more important to learn than specific technologies. To paraphrase a conversation I had yesterday, I think it's vastly more important for a newbie develeloper...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2007 8:31 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Featured
Illustrating the importance of teamwork by looking at dysfunctional projects

Most of this post is a repeat from my original blog in the mists of time (2005). I've written a lot about teamwork the last several months because it's something that I feel is both important and lacking at my current client. Say you have a guru in the domain logic in one cube with minimal software...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2007 7:56 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

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I'm a free agent

We need ALT.NET to supplement the traditional .Net leadership

500th Post

First Causes: Reversibility

Interception techniques in StructureMap 2.5

Some new ways to build objects in StructureMap with less configuration

Build your own CAB: Extensible Pub/Sub Event Aggregator with Generics

Do you really know where that code has been?

A Microcosm of Agile Design

A Train of Thought: November 13th, 2007 Edition

Be not afraid of the Visitor, the big, bad Composite, or their little friend Double Dispatch

ALT.NET Recap: Front and center, let's talk constructively about Mort

From a TDD Fanboy's viewpoint, how you know your approach to TDD or just plain unit testing is working?

Just some little fundamental things to help you CodeBetter

Illustrating the importance of teamwork by looking at dysfunctional projects