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All 40 Design Patterns FAQ

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:17:43 GMT

This article has all design patterns abstract factory pattern ,builder pattern, prototype pattern , shallow copy and deep copy in prototype patterns , singleton pattern , command patterns , Interpreter pattern, iterator pattern , mediator pattern , memento pattern , observer pattern , state pattern , strategy pattern , visitor pattern , difference between visitor and strategy pattern , adapter pattern ,fly weight pattern , bridge pattern , composite pattern , decorator pattern , Façade pattern , chain of responsibility ( COR) , proxy pattern and template pattern,

'Linq to Gac' : Use Linq to Power Query your Gac via C# to Fusion

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:59:03 GMT

This post gets the GAC via Linq to bend your way. How? A Fusion Wrapper to IEnumerable over your Gac. No nasty PInvokes to deal with. It's all clean C# which is here to use. We owe a debt to the Mono project for this as well as a very smart Microsoft staff member to be give credit when we can find the page again. Be careful however...Our last post cranked through your registry. This post gets you the GAC. Here is what is done with a holistic post later: * All files we can find (if you specify them) * The Gac (all of it and even the other two 'sub-gacs' if you want * Environmental Stuff (Path variable, etc. but we actually parse them and produce another tree and it fits our code) * A lot more (think all things inside you box) You can even join all this data if you can find the right keys. We joined our registry to our file system 'where the registry key value as a path' (where is was a valid path) didn't exist. Earth-shattering? No. Faster then any virus checker we've tried? ABSOLUTELY. Relevant to virus checkers? No not really actually..

Use objects insted of primitives as method parameters

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:06:14 GMT

Don't send entity id's in method calls because sooner or later they will have to do unnecessary calls to the database. Instead, use objects which have a conceptual meaning in that message

Screen monitor calibration for Web designers

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:31:46 GMT

Very good methods of Color management for designers. Free Gamma and Monitor Profile tools here: http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html http://quickgamma.de/QuickMonitorProfile/indexen.html

Why SOLID? Gimme an "S"!

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:26:34 GMT

The first in what looks to be series of posts in which Dave Laribee dives into the reasons why you should care about the SOLID principles, and what do they buy you.

Linq Framework Design Guidelines - evolve into optimized frameworks

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:08:03 GMT

This is from the team that brought you 'Framework Design Guidelines' led by Krzysztof Cwalina, an individual we are not shy to recognize as an amazing mind. Look for this content (as shared here from their internal work) in the next of the book For example : defer execution of query operator implementations. The expected behavior of most of the Query Pattern members is that they simply construct a new object which, upon enumeration, produces the elements of the set which match the query. The evaluation time is, then, at enumeration.

Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 2

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee wraps up his discussion with hosts Keith and Woody about the growing design practice and how it can be used with the .NET platform.

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:16:02 GMT

In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards.

Building a better web forms: Labels in form layouts

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:04:10 GMT

The project that I'm currently working on is really challenging. Together with my team, I am refactoring the presentation layer of some complex web application which user interface caused very bad user experience. One of the things we are working on is a form layout refactoring. In this article I'll show you how we tried to improve common form layouts by using underlined labels.

Detailed code metrics with NDepend

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:01:12 GMT

A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that!

When does design happen in Agile?

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:02:31 GMT

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...

Print Designer Doing Web

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:22:01 GMT

A story about good print designers trying to design web sites and not wanting to learn a thing.

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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:38:52 GMT

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Web user controls design pattern and data binding part 1

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:05:18 GMT

A lot of people are using user controls in asp because they are very easy to use, have design time support and so on. The purpose of this article is to prevent making mistakes when design a web control and to present a pattern that works for me perfectly

Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:16:04 GMT

When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply directly to modern software development. Not sure if this one is on topic - it's about general software engineering.

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers.

Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:56:26 GMT

This article presents techniques and tools used to create requirements with a team composed of the different participants of agile projects.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 7: UITypeEditor Introduction

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:01:03 GMT

This post gives a brief introduction on what is an UITypeEditor and what enhancements it gives for the design time environment, and some built in examples.

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

Interactive Application Architecture Patterns

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:33:11 GMT

An Introduction to the Model-View-Controller, Model-View-Presenter, and Presentation-Abstraction-Control Patterns

Don't be a keyloader

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:22:26 GMT

Make your page titles they ways they should be... and don't load them down with keywords.

The Tree & Wind Analogy

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:39:37 GMT

How to convince fresh meat that OOP is necessary.

What Screen size should we be building sites for?

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:46:02 GMT

Monitors are getting cheaper and cheaper, is 800 x 600 a thing of the past???

Eat Your Own Dog Food

Fri, 11 May 2007 09:38:13 GMT

This is a simple technique. Avoid the ivory tower speak and put your ideas into practice. Notice I didn't say to have your team put your ideas into practice. The best leaders are those who lead by example. The rest are simply managers. Be creative and be edgy, but never forget where the rubber meets the road. Architecture is worthless until it is implemented. Be a coder and lead by example.