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Life outside .NET, or “How to check out your neighbours”

The hillbilly be all Java’d up these days. For coming on three weeks, I’ve been the lone developer on a project based on Google Web Toolkit . It’s a web framework (naturally) that allows developers to build applications in Java and compiles it down to JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Scoff all you want, if...

Published Tue, Feb 2 2010 9:34 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Java, GWT
Open Rasta presentation, or “How to throw a rest into the mix”

I’m imagining the thought process of some of the session voters for the upcoming Mix conference . “Hey, here’s one on Open Rasta by the Coding Hillbilly. You know what would be funny? Let’s all vote for it even though he just submitted it on a lark to get some practice after taking time out from speaking...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 11:56 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Presenting, REST, Open Rasta
Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options”

Before recently taking on my current two contracts, I flirted briefly with a position as an employee. In the end, I decided not to take the job on the grounds that they didn’t want to hire me and it made me feel better about myself to assume that everyone there is just a bunch of big jerks and I wouldn...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 1:12 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Working Remotely, Career
OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all”

Gonna delve away from CodeBetter tradition into more of the realm of our sister site, Devlicious. I.e. This post will be about code, not about thinking about writing code. Having gone through this monstrous exercise though, I gotta say, Ivory Tower Architect is looking like a mighty fine role these days...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 3:59 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: NHibernate
Revisiting “Maintainable for whom?”, or “How to justify your crap”

Some time ago, I had a small crisis of conscience as I worked on an app for my dad’s company. At the time, I wondered about the long-term viability of using so-called advanced tools like NHibernate, IoC, and MVC. Specifically, if I drop dead (and it’s starting to get a little morbid the number of times...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 11:56 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC, Conscientious Coding, S#arp Architecture
TeamCity/CodeBetter PSA, or “How to disguise your intentions”

I’d apologize for MY lack of posts lately but something tells me it didn’t adversely affect your life. I do have reaSONs that I WAS going to mention but again, I suspect no one lay awake at night thinking, “I wonder if the hillbilly has unleashed a new rule of thumB OR Not.” Suffice it to say, I did...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 2:09 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Continuous Integration, TeamCity
TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or “How to move past the honeymoon phase”

The one year anniversary of when the TeamCity/CodeBetter collaboration was brought online. The reason I know this is because the product has a helpful feature whereby it warns you quite clearly at the top of the page when your license is about to expire. Several others noticed this and Jayzus bless Twitter...

Published Wed, Sep 23 2009 10:03 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Continuous Integration, TeamCity
Using AutoHotKey to map the Ctrl key, or “How to Ctrl your closure”

Quick productivity blorg today. Because if hillbillies are known for anything, it’s their efficacy. And their ability to use words they don’t quite know the meaning of but can fake in context. (I’m referring, of course, to “efficacy”. I know full well what a “blorg” is so I don’t need you telling me...

Published Thu, Sep 17 2009 5:21 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Utilities
Search functionality: heavy on the research, light on the development

The word “and” has always bugged me. I hate started sentences with it but sometimes can’t help myself. Whenever I have a list of three or more items in a sentence, I can never tell whether I should be a comma before the “and” separating the last two items. And Plus it causes me no end of grief in search...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2009 10:20 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Lucene.NET
Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management”

Long-winded background for this long-winded post can be found here and here . The short version is: I have an app that searches using a full-text search of a document repository consisting of Office docs and PDFs. The current version uses Microsoft Indexing Service and it is all but obsolete. Which is...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2009 12:25 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Lucene.NET
Death of a user group, or “How to give up”

Bahamas Software Development User Group, we hardly knew ye. It’s been just over a year since I started the short-lived group but alas! It is no more. In this post-mortem, we discuss What Went Wrong by providing smug pieces of advice fueled by 20/20 hindsight. Know what you’re getting into As much as...

Published Wed, Sep 9 2009 9:52 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, Bahanet
Piquing curiosity, or “How to scratch the surface”

Another in the series of “reviewer feedback I’m going to deal with using dicey justification techniques” for Brownfield Application Development . This time, there were concerns that the topics covered in the book don’t go in-depth enough. One reviewer said he or she would need to reference other works...

Published Sat, Aug 29 2009 3:10 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield
Gondorff and Hooker vs. Butch and Sundance

At the beginning of the project I’m on, I made a humbling mistake. There were two others on the team, an employee and another contractor. The mandate the other contractor and I were given was to introduce some new techniques to the employees which is all hunky-dory. The other contractor is a young’un...

Published Fri, Aug 14 2009 11:06 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Conscientious Coding
Compile => CI => Tests, or "How to compile first, test later"

A common piece of feedback we got for early reviews of Brownfield Application Development is that the automated testing chapter should come before the automated build/continuous integration chapter. This was an awesome bit of feedback mostly because we could ignore it and instead get some air time on...

Published Fri, Aug 7 2009 1:14 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, Continuous Integration
Unflattening a list, or "How to ask 'how to'"

Code challenge time! And by code challenge, I mean, "Do my work for me so I don't have to think/Google". We have a parent object, called Parent, and each one has a collection of child objects, called AllegedChild. Ignore potential cycles for this exercise. The database has a single table...

Published Tue, Aug 4 2009 5:05 PM by Kyle Baley

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Life outside .NET, or “How to check out your neighbours”

Open Rasta presentation, or “How to throw a rest into the mix”

Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options”

OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all”

Revisiting “Maintainable for whom?”, or “How to justify your crap”

TeamCity/CodeBetter PSA, or “How to disguise your intentions”

TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or “How to move past the honeymoon phase”

Using AutoHotKey to map the Ctrl key, or “How to Ctrl your closure”

Search functionality: heavy on the research, light on the development

Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management”

Death of a user group, or “How to give up”

Piquing curiosity, or “How to scratch the surface”

Gondorff and Hooker vs. Butch and Sundance

Compile => CI => Tests, or "How to compile first, test later"

Unflattening a list, or "How to ask 'how to'"