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LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Generic Variance in C# 4.0

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:46:12 GMT

A simple description of the new variance support for generics in the yet-to-be-released C# 4.0.

Custom Selection Heuristics in Ninject

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:52:08 GMT

An explanation of the powerful new selection heuristics in the soon-to-be-released Ninject 1.5.

What is your strategy for becoming a better developer?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:31:19 GMT

Let me know what your best habits, tricks, info sources, etc.... that you have which make you a better developer. And the top three are going to get a copy of "The Pragmatic Programmer" in order to make themselves a better developer.

Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 2

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:46:03 GMT

A second part of popular IoC frameworks comparison.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

Entities and Repositories Discussion

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Earlier today, there was a great discussion in an IRC channel about entities and whether they should have behaviors or not, and that eventually moved onto Repositories. It's a good discussion and after it was over, several of us felt it would be a good reference for later. Since I have a log of the conversation, I figured I'd repost it for future reference. Hopefully, you'll find it a good read as well.

Introducing Kanban at Xclaim

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:44:49 GMT

We've rolled out Kanban at my company Xclaim Software. Prior to this we were following a more-or-less XP process evolved and tweaked over some two years.

Json.NET 3.0 Released

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

The latest version of Json.NET brings lots of new features including Silverlight support.

Creating a binding factory for Ninject

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:01:14 GMT

A quick primer on setting up a Ninject factory so that you can easily start using it in your next project.

Diving Deeper into Ninject -- Binding Lifetimes

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

A short screencasts that reviews the binding lifetimes possibilities with the Ninject IoC container.

Lutz Roeder's Weblog: The Future of .NET Reflector

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:16:02 GMT

After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities. I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new features, and Reflector fits nicely with other .NET tools the company offers. Red Gate will continue to provide the free community version and is looking for your feedback and ideas for future versions.

Implementing a Repository and Specificaiton pattern using Linq

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:31:03 GMT

In my previous post I put down some thoughts on the Repository and Specification patterns and in the end said that with the introduction of Linq and the growing popularity of ORM frameworks and their support for Linq, it's time to look back at these two patterns and see how we can leverage Linq to simplify the patterns and make them infrastructure agnostic.

.NET 3.5 SP1 Get*CustomModifiers bugs

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Oren Eini describes new bugs in .NET 3.5 SP1 with ParameterInfo.GetRequiredCustomModifiers and ParameterInfo.GetOptionalCustomModifiers

Fluent NHibernate and those sweet LINQ repositories

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Hidden gems in this cool open source library.

Introducing Fluent NHibernate

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:16:47 GMT

I've adopted a project from Jeremy Miller that I think has the potential to be a really useful tool. It's called Fluent NHibernate, and it's primarily a fluent API for mapping classes with NHibernate.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

ASP.NET Themes Don't Like IE8's X-UA-Compatible header; Neither Do I

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

"I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I'll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I'll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible thing, and why I think the way that turned out was bad for everyone."

Software I can't work without

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:46:10 GMT

I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.

Microsoft and Open Source...A New Love Story

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Brian Prince outlines the latest happenings between Microsoft and the open source community. Including sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.

Diving Deeper into Ninject -- Contextual Binding

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:01:18 GMT

Short screencasts about diving deeper into Ninject with Contextual Binding.

Elegant Invariant Checking with C# 3

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:16:03 GMT

Leveraging expression trees and extension methods to build a fluent invariant checking API.

Specification Pattern and Lambdas

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:46:03 GMT

While working on my current project I decided that I had a need to use the Specification Pattern . After finding a clean implementation by Jeff Perrin I set to work creating the specifications that I needed. I quickly realized that we were going to end up having a ton of specifications and sometimes they would only apply to very special cases. Other times they would be very broad cases and they needed to be even more composable than even the fluid interface implemented in Jeff's implementation wasn't going to be enough. It after all still required me to create a concrete implementation for each specification, no matter how minuscule it might be. This is the part where I thought to my self that since i was really only creating implementations for a single method that I could just write a LambdaSpecification and be able to use this for all the special cases I had.

Alt.net certification

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:47:02 GMT

The necessary next step in Alt.net: Certification!

Persistence Ignorant Objects with ActiveRecord

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:14:16 GMT

This article explores how we could achieve persistence ignorance for business object with ActiveRecord using a repository.