Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly - All Comments

re: Branching out, or “How to live life outside ASP.NET MVC”

Hendry Luk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:14:41 GMT

I never realized that TDD and maintainability has gainned so much traction in Javascript land.

I was assuming anything written in Javascript was automatically untestable and hard to maintain.

Hence my panic when hearing MVC on JS. Things that were previously within my comfort strong-type IDE-friendly fully testable c# code (I'm talking about C of MVC), now have to move out to alien hostile javascript world.

To me this is a huge leap. Thanks for the post, looking forward to your next posts about this adventure :)

re: Branching out, or “How to live life outside ASP.NET MVC”

Kyle Baley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:55:02 GMT

Hendry,

At the moment, we're re-evaluating whether or not where doing too much technology just for the sake of it. So we're test-driving things using MooTools for the views rather than EJS. TDD experience is too early to tell.

Re: Captcha. Works on Firefox for me. Haven't tried any others.

re: Branching out, or “How to live life outside ASP.NET MVC”

Hendry Luk — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:03:58 GMT

I don't feel comfortable with the idea of MVC in Javascript, mainly because unit-testing is painful to a level that I don't dare to even think about it.

How's your TDD experience with EJS?

P.s., is it just me or codebetter's captcha only works on IE?

re: Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question”

Kyle Baley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:44:48 GMT

Manning site says it'll be November 2009. That sounds accurate as it's out for final review now.

re: Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question”

Bernadette — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:06:25 GMT

My advice: buy a copy and read Code Complete. Plan on re-reading it in whole or in sections every so often. Also, read Hunt's Pragmatic Thinking and Learning for a fascinating look at how we develop a variety of skills to varying competencies from novice to expertise.

re: Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question”

mob — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:15:02 GMT

Speaking of "brownfield" when is the print version going to be available?

Sometimes when I'm coding in our current system I wonder if the term should actually be "cloverfield".

Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question”

Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:04:41 GMT

This post is over a week in the making. I attended AltNetBeers #9 last week in London which is making

re: NHibernate error while adding a collection to an object

Johan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:06:07 GMT

Double HAH, had the same issue. However mine was infact an embedded resource. My problem was that I named my mapping file incorrectly without the hbm bit. So instead of FileName.hbm.xml I had FileName.xml.

DOH!

Полнотекстовый поиск по файловой системе из SQL Server

SQLClub — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:38:32 GMT

Как известно, SQL Server еще с семерки умеет заниматься полнотекстовым поиском по своим строковым и текстовым

Weekly Web Nuggets #67

Code Monkey Labs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:50:54 GMT

Lots of good stuff this week – not one, not two, but three posts worthy of ‘Pick of the week’ treatment! Picks of the Week I Hardly Recognize You Fighting Technical Debt with the Wall of Pain A Different Shade of Rose, or “How to…actually, I’m not up

re: A different shade of rose, or “How to…actually, I’m not up for subtitling this one”

Kyle Baley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:18:43 GMT

Some of the comments have given me cause for reflection on this and if I were to be honest with myself, I'm not totally blameless in my conclusions. Corey, you bring up a good point about speaking from ego vs. as a mentor. Thinking back to the situations that led to this post, I went on the defensive far too much when one of the methods I used was questioned.

Being remote has added to my frustration because despite being able to pair via SharedView, it's always far too easy to just find an excuse to hang up the phone and continue on with what I'm doing than to try to explain the value of what I did. I'm discovering that I have less patience than I did five years ago for some reason.

I guess I'm more used to meeting someone halfway. But in some cases, we may have to go a little further than halfway.

re: A different shade of rose, or “How to…actually, I’m not up for subtitling this one”

corey coogan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:35:16 GMT

Kyle, I have on my list to write on this very topic. Typical reactions I hear are "that's stupid, why would they do that". This is usually overheard from several cubes away, so I may stop by to explain and am usually met with more resistance, like "that's not how I do it, doesn't make sense".

It's a fine line between ego and educating the confused. but I think it's important to recognize when it's ego and change the approach because speaking from the ego will always come across in a negative way.

re: A different shade of rose, or “How to…actually, I’m not up for subtitling this one”

Jim Cooper — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:35:03 GMT

You're pretty lucky not to have run into this situation until now :-)

Everybody should read this chapter (and the rest of the book for that matter) from the pragmatic guys:

media.pragprog.com/.../chap2.pdf

It explains a lot about the people you probably have to deal with.

re: Delayed execution with yield, or “How to abdicate, cede, and relent”

Jim Cooper — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:27:39 GMT

@Kyle

"The only reason I'm prolonging this debate is because you are arguing your point rationally which is a refreshing change from the arguments I'm getting from my actual team members."

:-)

I find it sometimes helps to have an opposing POV. You either find it's right, and change your mind, or the process of defending/explaining your position clarifies the situation for you.

re: TeamCity @ CodeBetter

Rob — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:52:16 GMT

Greylisted...? Hmmm. Well, hopefully my email gets through.