Today is a historic occasion for the "Prism" team as our first drop of our Reference Implementation (RI) hits codeplex. In this post I will describe to you what the RI is, and what you can expect to see when you download it. Disclaimer: This will evolve (and change) significantly. At this stage...

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...

I finally set up a googlecode project to host source code for the various things I have been doing over the last year. The first major significant contribution is of course the code drop that I promised a week ago now!! The application is the start of what I hope will evolve to be a great learning resource...

Now I am by no means claiming to be any sort of patterns naming authority, but after you see the same occurent pattern in your applications you often will try to formulate some sort of vocabulary among the team to express the concept that you see occurring over and over again. This is the very nature...

Bil Simser had a post up the other day about Refactoring Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest away. I had some small suggestions that I offered up and Bil implemented some of the changes that I had mentioned. Here is the code as it stands right now : public class SegmentConfigurationFactory { /// <summary>...

Previously I discussed some issues with modopt . Well there are more. In total I have logged three issues (could be many more as nearly every language I have looked at has the same problems). I figured I would put up some links and describe each issue here. C# specification does not define modopt varying...