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The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:46:12 GMT

Discussion of NNPPs and how to tackle them.

Understand Unit Testing and TDD: Getting Better Code Coverage

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:56:44 GMT

How do you approach testing your code? The author goes through how to think about testing- what to look for, what to analyze, and how to structure your unit tests.

Oxite - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:01:16 GMT

Oxite is an open source application built on ASP.NET MVC and Karl Seguin raises some points related to the design/architecture/implementation.

StructureMap and the Singleton Scenario

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:27:23 GMT

StructureMap is a great DI tool but in using it I have discovered an interesting shortfall. It would appear that even transient or "Per-Request" objects are only ever created once per declarative request thus having the effect of making everything singleton-ish.

CLR 4.0: Corrupted State Exceptions

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:05:18 GMT

CLR 4.0 will not allow you anymore to catch exceptions that may corrupt the state of the current running process, the CLR 4.0 introduced this new concept of Corrupted State Exceptions (i like to think of those as Super Exceptions), those exceptions that could corrupt the state of the process and causing losing user data or weird application behaviors

CLR 4.0: New Enhancements in the Garbage Collection

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:03:59 GMT

The current Garbage Collection does pretty good job in reclaiming the memory of Gen 0 and Gen 1, those Generation's objects live in ephemeral segments which is very small and GC reclaims their memory very fast, on the contrary most of Gen 2 objects live in other large segments which make Gen 2 large objects collection slower than other collections. The GC team actually made great improvements in collection algorithms on both the server and the workstation to make it faster and reduce latency.

C# Delegate Shortcut - No more null testing on events for subscribers

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:04:25 GMT

Do you use this syntax? It adds up as you can leave null tests in the dust for event subscribers: EXAMPLE: public event EventHandler<AnimationImageEventArgs> AnimationImageClicked = delegate { }; Post has full details, but most might already know this. If not your wasting cycles.

TryParseGuid - Try/Catch vs Regex

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:45:11 GMT

Need to TryParse a Guid? Guess which is faster: try/catch or Regex.Parse. The results may surprise you.

WPF Model - View - View-Model Screencast

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:46:09 GMT

A really helpful screencast from Jason Dolinger showing how to use the M-V-VM pattern in a simple WPF application. He starts off with the code that a Windows Forms developer might use and refactors it to M-V-VM. Also includes a demonstration of how it is nicely unit testable utilising Moq and how to use the Unity IoC container. 1 hour 30 mins long.

Eight Miserable TFS Features

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:34:56 GMT

Eight reasons why Team Foundation Server is a miserable tool for source control.

NHibernate.Profiler now available!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:57:53 GMT

Rob and Christopher Bennage have had the fantastic opportunity to contribute to Ayende's NHibernate Profiler. It's somewhat analogous to SQL Profiler, and yet-oh, so much more.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 1 - dynamic keyword

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:01:14 GMT

A quick look at the new "dynamic" keyword in C# 4.0 and its implications for application development.

My Year With TDD

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:46:02 GMT

It's been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done for me professionally. In reality, the past year has been great for my professional career in many ways.

The Software Developer's Dream

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:09:54 GMT

Tom Preston-Werner, one of the founders of GitHub , wrote an enlightening article about his decision to turn down 300K bonus from Microsoft in order to work on the GitHub project one year ago . A beautifully written article. I love it absolutely.

Layers are not tiers

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:01:18 GMT

Another plea for us all to please adopt the correct terminology when referring to layers and tiers in the context of solution architecture.

Are your applications 'legacy code' before they even hit production?

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:46:06 GMT

When a business has custom software developed, it expects that software to last for a long time. To do this, software must A) continue operating - by adapting to changing technology needs, and B) continue be useful - by adapting to changing business needs.

Validation in WPF using PostSharp/AOP

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:31:12 GMT

A example of how PostSharp could be used to simplify validation in WPF

ASP.NET MVC, What about SEO?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:31:05 GMT

Unfortunately, I've run into some alarming SEO (Search Engine Optimization) issues ASP.NET MVC.

Getting rid of spaghetti code in the real-world: a Case Study

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:46:10 GMT

A case study of cleaning up entangled code by reducing dependencies. Tips of how to avoid more entangled code to be added. Plugs NCover.

NHibernate Ling for NHibernate 2.0 GA

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:59:44 GMT

I was hopefull that by the time 2.0 was actually released that NH.Linq would be caught up, but alas that was not the case. The reason why is that there is new, better, and refactored linq support on its way for NHibernate and is scheduled for the 2.1 version of NHibernate. That's great and all but it doesn't really help poor schmoes like me who want to use the existing linq features for now. Ok that's enough whining for now, on to the fixing.

Open generics and WCF?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:30:31 GMT

If you have ever tried to use open generics with WCF you will know that it is not supported by default. GenericMessaging gets around this by leveraging WCF raw messages to allow for a more seamless .net to .net communication.

List Of Free & Open Source ASP.NET Web Applications

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:18:41 GMT

I thought it would be a good idea to create an ever growing list of all the open source ASP.NET applications I could find

Avoiding Inheritance Dependencies Using Generics and Lambdas

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:24:27 GMT

A nice implementation of the Command pattern using generics and lambdas

HashSet to the Rescue

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast.