Karl Seguin

Browse by Tags

• Featured

• My Thoughts on ASP.NET's MVC

  Like me, you might have been surprised that the foundation series didn't have a chapter on the MVC pattern. I'm no fan of the existing page model (I actually think it's horrible), and I've successfully used MonoRail on a few projects,... Posted Jul 22 2008, 09:49 PM by karl with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

  If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered... Posted Jul 18 2008, 09:34 AM by karl with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming Ebook

  I'm excited to finally release the official, and completely free, Foundations of Programming EBook. This essentially contains all 9 Foundation parts including a conclusion and some typical book fluff (table of content, acknowledgement and so on).... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:53 PM by karl with | with 68 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 9 - Proxy This and Proxy That

  Few keywords are as simple yet amazingly powerful as virtual in C# (overridable in VB.NET). When you mark a method as virtual you allow an inheriting class to override the behavior. Without this functionality inheritance and polymorphism wouldn't... Posted Jun 18 2008, 08:32 AM by karl with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 8 - Back to Basics: Exceptions

  Exceptions are such powerful constructs that developers can get a little overwhelmed and far too defensive when dealing with them. This is unfortunate because exceptions actually represent a key opportunity for developers to make their system considerably... Posted May 29 2008, 08:02 PM by karl with | with 25 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 7 - Addendum

  I've made two additions to Part 7. The first is based on a suggestion by Greg to talk about a common cause of memory leaks - events and delegates. The second is about deterministic finalization Memory Leaks with Events There's one specific situation... Posted May 04 2008, 04:28 PM by karl with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 7 - Back to Basics: Memory

  I'm back. Readers can expect a quality free pdf ebook once the series is complete (end of may at the latest hopefully). Try as they might, modern programming language can't fully abstract fundamental aspects of computer systems. This is made evident... Posted Apr 27 2008, 08:58 PM by karl with | with 27 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - PDF

  UPDATED: There's an official free ebook now available here . Tim Barcz was kind enough to compile the the foundation series into a single PDF, for your sharing/printer pleasure. You can grab it here I'll be taking a short break from blogging for... Posted Jan 02 2008, 08:12 PM by karl with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - Part 6 - NHibernate

  In part 3 we took our first stab at bridging the data and object world by hand-writing our own data access layer and mapper. The approach turned out to be rather limited and required quite a bit of repetitive code (although it was useful in demonstrating... Posted Jan 02 2008, 08:52 AM by karl with | with 32 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 7 (sorta) - ActiveRecord

  You may be wondering what happened to part 6. Well, it's still being worked on and should be available early next week. I wasn't sure if there would be a part 7 and if so what it would be about - but I was heavily considering writing about an... Posted Dec 28 2007, 10:12 AM by karl with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - Part 5 – Unit Testing

  Throughout this series we've talked about the importance of testability and have looked at techniques to make it easier to test our system. It goes without saying that a major benefit of writing tests for our system is the ability to deliver a better... Posted Dec 20 2007, 08:22 AM by karl with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 4 – Dependency Injection

  It's common to hear developers promote layering as a means to provide extensibility. The most common example, and one I used in Part 2 when we looked at interfaces, is the ability to switch out your data access layer in order to connect to a different... Posted Dec 10 2007, 08:22 PM by karl with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - Part 3 - Persistence

  Part 3 of the Foundations series has been posted on DotNetSlackers. You can see it at: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/FoundationsOfProgrammingPersistence.aspx This is an introduction to persistence using objects, which will be re-examined in a... Posted Dec 05 2007, 11:10 AM by karl with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - pt 2 – Domain Domain Domain

  Intruduction Starting this kind of series by talking about domain driven design and object oriented programming is rather predictable. At first I thought I could avoid the topic for at least a couple posts, but that would do both you and me a great disservice... Posted Nov 29 2007, 07:40 AM by karl with | with 37 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Foundations

• Foundations of Programming - Part 1 - Introduction

  Preamble A few years ago I was fortunate enough to turn a corner in my programming career. The opportunity for solid mentoring presented itself, and I took full advantage of it. Within the space of a few months, my programming skills grew exponentially... Posted Nov 26 2007, 08:59 AM by karl with | with 31 comment(s) Filed under: Foundations