Monthly Archives: August 2008

Mike apparently took some time off from being a new Dad to gather up the latest news on IronRuby. The State of IronRuby  

Thank God I don’t have my old 3 hours a day of commuting into Manhattan, but I needed to spit out some little blog postlets in more than 140 characters at a time, so I present to you the latest … Continue reading →

From the feedback on the StructureMap Google group, Chad and I have hashed out a new Fluent Interface expressions for explicitly defining constructor arguments and setter values (I still think Setter Injection is a design smell, but I’ve been vociferously … Continue reading →

The website is up for the “Continuous Improvement in .Net Software Development” conference has been posted at http://kaizenconf.com/.  It’s a bit different in scope than ALT.NET Seattle in that there will be free workshops before the open spaces event over … Continue reading →

That’s all I’ve got to say this morning.  Check it our here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Object_pattern

I was perusing the session list for ALT.NET Canada this morning (sorry I couldn’t make it guys) and saw this session title that reflects something I’ve had quite a few conversations about this year. Building extensible frameworks leveraging framework consumer … Continue reading →

Edit 8/22/2008:  We had a good response to this and other postings, and we’ve filled the position.  I’m sorry, but I don’t expect us to grow again anytime soon.   The take away from this is that we have an … Continue reading →

Chad & I have gotten tired of being an old married couple, so we’ve brought in reinforcements.   Today we welcomed Josh Flanagan (developer extraordinaire and StructureMap committer) to the Dovetail team.  Welcome aboard Josh!

Our new shame card:  If you break the build somebody writes you up on Twitter where the world can mock you. No, we don’t really do this, but…