Monthly Archives: December 2007

Foundations of Programming – pt 7 (sorta) – ActiveRecord

Posted on December 28, 2007 by karlseguin

You may be wondering what happened to part 6. Well, it’s still being worked on and should be available early next week. I wasn’t sure if there would be a part 7 and if so what it would be about … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Programming – Part 5 – Unit Testing

Posted on December 20, 2007 by karlseguin

Throughout this series we’ve talked about the importance of testability and have looked at techniques to make it easier to test our system. It goes without saying that a major benefit of writing tests for our system is the ability … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Programming – pt 4 – Dependency Injection

Posted on December 11, 2007 by karlseguin

It’s common to hear developers promote layering as a means to provide extensibility. The most common example, and one I used in Part 2 when we looked at interfaces, is the ability to switch out your data access layer in … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Programming – Part 3 – Persistence

Posted on December 5, 2007 by karlseguin

Part 3 of the Foundations series has been posted on DotNetSlackers. You can see it at:http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/FoundationsOfProgrammingPersistence.aspx  This is an introduction to persistence using objects, which will be re-examined in a later part.  I’ve always believed that CodeBetter and communities like … Continue reading →

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