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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
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
Development Project Archetypes, or “How to pigeon-hole”

One of the more entertaining and satisfying sections Donald and I have written for Brownfield Application Development is on Development Project Archetypes. That is, the types of people you encounter on a development project. Donald’s been outlining them on his blog for the last couple of weeks and is...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 1:30 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield
How do you tame the many heads of the hydra?

There have been numerous posts about hiring the "right" people. One of the more ideal characteristics is a passion for the industry and for learning new techniques. But as I look at more and more code written by these zealots (and I don't mean that to be derogatory because I count myself...

Published Wed, Dec 10 2008 1:04 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Refactoring, Brownfield
Coding with a net: An anecdote

I'm in the early stages of a new project with the dashing and debonair Brian Donahue . On the plus side, despite his misgivings, the codebase is in pretty phenomenal shape all things considered. SVN repository, automated build and tests, ActiveRecord, views reasonably separated into MVP. Even a half...

Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 5:02 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Refactoring, ReSharper, Brownfield, NHibernate
DevTeach presentations explained

I'm preparing my presentations for DevTeach and have come to realize that there is a price to pay for creativity. Here are the abstracts for three of my presentations. Guerrilla Refactoring Greetings, comrades. Welcome to the resistance! Our quarry today is a shamefully designed application that...

Published Mon, Oct 20 2008 9:04 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Refactoring, TDD, Brownfield, ASP.NET MVC, Presenting, Community
Can you refactor to MVC?

Not feeling too subtle today so I've given the punchline away in the title here. After wandering neck-deep into MVP and MVC , I'm now thinking about refactoring brownfield applications toward them. And it occurred to me: is it reasonable to refactor to MVC? Then, is it feasible? Then, is it even...

Published Sun, Sep 28 2008 9:27 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, ASP.NET MVC
Revisiting the onion

I'm working on a chapter on layering for the upcoming Brownfield book , and for better or for worse, we're including a section on the onion architecture. I've heard the term mentioned for some time now but for the life of me, I can find only one meaty series of posts on it in recent months...

Published Sat, Aug 30 2008 9:16 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield
Review of the Check-In Dance

This started as a promotion for the dimecast I recently did on the Check-In Dance but I think it's worth reviewing in more detail. Don't know if he coined the phrase but I first heard of the Check-In Dance from Jeremy Miller . His post on the subject is still, some three years later, accurate...

Published Sun, Jul 6 2008 9:50 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, Continuous Integration, Conscientious Coding
BahaNET meeting and .NET Rocks

I've become rather acutely aware that my content has been lacking of late in the technical department. But I do have a couple of community announcements to make that are time-based so I'll compromise a bit and combine them into a single post. Then I'll take a hiatus until I have something...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 9:02 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, Presenting, Bahanet
Be it ever so humble...

The obligatory follow-up post to the 99% of you (give or take 2%) that didn't attend my presentation, to let you know that I gave a presentation. This one is pure entertainment value only so if you're looking to code better, maybe Greg Young or Matt Podwysocki will finally post something technical...

Published Mon, Jun 9 2008 1:33 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, Presenting
Florida Tweener weekend

I was invited to speak at the Florida Tweener weekend which is the weekend 'twixt the two TechEd weeks in Orlando. The schedule is up and I had no idea what the scale of this thing would be! Not only is there a full day .NET code camp but also over a dozen other activities. The ones I'm excited...

Published Tue, May 20 2008 9:17 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, Presenting, Community
Researching search

I've had "searching" on my mind lately but in a very narrow focus. Specifically, I have a Brownfield application for a client I dig up every so often whenever new features need to be added to it. (Off topic: As soon as I can re-brand the sucker, it'll make a dandy little sample app...

Published Tue, May 13 2008 9:29 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield
Brownfield Application Development in .NET

Suppose it would have been more appropriate to make today's announcement yesterday but c'est la vie, que sera sera, ou est la biblioteque and all that. I'm w riting a book with Donald Belcham on practices and techniques that can be used on brownfield applications . The official site is at...

Published Wed, Apr 2 2008 9:52 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield
Upcoming speaking engagements

Floridians beware! The Hillbilly descends on your fair state in the next few weeks: FlaDotNet - West Palm Beach, January 22, 2008 6:30pm Introducing MVC in .NET OnLoad, OnPreRender, OnRender, OnInit. Traditional web forms development makes it sound like you're some crazed Santa Claus...

Published Tue, Jan 15 2008 1:02 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: TDD, Brownfield, ASP.NET MVC, Mocking, Presenting

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Piquing curiosity, or “How to scratch the surface”

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

Development Project Archetypes, or “How to pigeon-hole”

How do you tame the many heads of the hydra?

Coding with a net: An anecdote

DevTeach presentations explained

Can you refactor to MVC?

Revisiting the onion

Review of the Check-In Dance

BahaNET meeting and .NET Rocks

Be it ever so humble...

Florida Tweener weekend

Researching search

Brownfield Application Development in .NET

Upcoming speaking engagements