Rik Bardrof , one of the senior developers at Xclaim, recently gave a presentation to the Syracuse .NET Developer's Group. I was in town, so I captured the talk. In it, he covers a few patterns/principles we use extensively in our products: Model View Presenter Separated Interface Dependency Injection...

Previously: Architecting Linq to SQL, part 9 End of the line This is intended to be the last part in this series and I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about a number of related if diverse topics. I would like to look at what I would like to see in the next version, and talk about when and where...

Previously: Architecting LINQ To SQL part 8 LINQ To SQL with N-Tier: Why is there pain? People tend to experience pain using LINQ in N-Tier scenarios because they are trying to pass entities between layers. You can find some examples of this complaint, not to pick on anyone but just to avoid repeating...

Someone at work, new to agile approaches, asked me about when agile projects do design. I thought I would share my answer in case others were still wondering, and to try and explain where experience may have lead to us activities that are not textbook. The short answer is ‘all the time’ and ‘just-in...

The Ubiquitous Language is an important concept in Domain-Driven Design. Some time back, I found this video of Paul Rand talking about his views on the essence of design and art. I love it and see an immediate parallel between his thoughts and the style of language oriented design a good modeler strives...

Greg Young convened an interesting fishbowl about moving architectures into the future. A number of "-ilities" are brought up in the course of this varied and good discussion. Watching this I wonder if there is an architectural future or if it's the case that we're only in the ever...

Previously: Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 7 Tiers A layer, such as we discussed Part 2 , in is not a tier. A layer is a logical unit of division; a tier is a physical unit of division. The two need not be the same. Software may be layered within a single process running on one machine or...

I did a quick streaming video today with the Separated Interface design pattern as our topic du jour. I wanted to see if the whiteboard would show up on video and if this was something people thought was valuable. It's certainly easy to pick a design pattern and talk about it fairly loosely with...

Joe Healy just called me to see if Thursday the 21st was a good day for the Day of Ajax. He just found out that the room was double booked, so we had to change our time. Hopefully, all of you who were coming can make it a day later. If not I'll plan on re-doing my presentation for the Tampa CodeCamp...

[I'm starting the buzz as early as I can...] I am in the process of putting together a free fullday training in Tampa called "A Day of Ajax" with Joe Healy (my Blog Daddy), Jim Zimmerman , and Jon Goodyear (and ASPSOFT ). The presenter list has not been finalized yet (please, Joe, please get that special...