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TDD I Learned… Code Katas

Continuing to make my way through Roy Osherove’s TDD course.  There’s an interesting exercise that he introduces to help practice and gain the muscle memory required to do TDD well – the Code Kata.  Wikipedia attributes the code kata to Dave … Continue reading 

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.Net framework versions and dll hell

With .net version numbers increasing and increasing I recently encountered something which reminded me of dllhell. Which the .net framework promised to end. The nice part is that it already shows up at build time. Not at run time, leading … Continue reading 

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Why Can’t I Update an Event?

Last week on a call with someone the question came up about the Event Store about why can they not update and event and how should they handle the case where they need to. The conversation that came out of … Continue reading 

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@model and beyond

In my previous post I had been fiddling with the html helper used in Razor views. Since then our custom html-extensions have been doing great things for our project. To mention some: Standardizing the look and feel. It is far … Continue reading 

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Relaunching SerialSeb – Practical ReST and then some

Well. After 5 months of soul-searching, ups and downs, I’m back, more focused than ever (think laser beam focus). This week has seen the launch of several important projects for me, and I’m very excited to share them with you, … Continue reading 

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DongleGate: A Legal Perspective and some social commentary

Those of you that know me, know that I’m both a software developer and a lawyer. I’ve not commented on the #DongleGate issue – except to say that this issue has privacy, first amendment and civil litigation ramifications. Those of … Continue reading 

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Startups and TDD

Yesterday Uncle Bob put up a post on using TDD in start up environments “The Startup Trap” its a good read. Check it out. Nate soon after posted: It’s funny, you never see someone with the title “Master Craftsman” at a startup. … Continue reading 

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Projections 4: Event Matching

In the “intermission” post we jumped ahead quite a bit in terms of the complexity of the projection we were building. Let’s jump back into our progression of learning bits. The projections we have used so far have used a … Continue reading 

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Spring->Summer

Wow it feels weird to have a schedule that is pretty much completely locked in between now and August. I guess things change when you don’t only have your own schedule to worry about. A friend tells me that soon … Continue reading 

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Projections 3: Using State

In Projections 2 we looked at creating a very simple projection that would analyze our statistics inside of the Event Store. The projection was: This is a very common type of scenario we will find in event based systems. We … Continue reading 

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