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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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