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How Do You Deal With Exceptions?

Fri, 15 May 2009 04:01:09 GMT

A little post on my ideas about handling exceptions within applications. How do you handle them?

Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:16:02 GMT

So let me first just start off by saying: I do not like code generation. In certain cases I think it can help greatly, but many people are far too eager to jump to this solution. I don't think that there is anything particularly evil about the process of generating code, but I do feel like using code generation as a day to day tool is a very bad practice. Code generation should be the tool of last resort when there is no good way to cleanly implement a solution which doesn't require code to be spread out everywhere.

Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer

Fri, 01 May 2009 05:39:00 GMT

If you are a C# developer then you may keep hearing about all the cool kids from Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, Scala using these crazy things called mixins.

Static Method Interception in .NET with C# and Mono.Cecil

Sat, 02 May 2009 04:01:02 GMT

Interested in Mono.Cecil? A very short introduction to a very cool and powerful tool.

Should We Solve Institutional Problems In Our Code?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:46:02 GMT

Is it okay for us to solve deficiencies in our development teams with code?

Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Seems like today is the day for performance optimization talks: in String.Empty, in calls to ActionLinks, in high-performance IoC containers. But people sometimes miss the point that these are micro-optimizations: thanks God Justin tries to bring a bit of sanity in this geeky world of micro-optimization

5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:46:07 GMT

Everyone knows that Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Scott Guthrie all provide good ASP.NET MVC content on their blogs. I wanted to provide a list of excellent resources on ASP.NET MVC that are a little less well known.

Do We Create Type Systems In Dynamic Languages?

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:17:57 GMT

Justin Etheredge examines whether home-grown type systems appear in large projects written with dynamic languages.

File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:16:10 GMT

I had not messed around with file uploads in ASP.NET MVC for a while and so when I fired up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they had made it!

Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 - Part 4

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:46:03 GMT

into to mocking using moq libary, part 4

Heisenberg And Lambdas

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:46:02 GMT

How can we tell if an object is going to leak? We can't hold a reference to it, since that will cause it to stick around. So how can we get a reference which isn't a reference? Well, we get a weak reference!

To Inject Or Not To Inject

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:01:06 GMT

The benefits of Dependency Injection are very hard to see when only dealing with very simple examples. I tried to come up with an example that is simple enough to fit in a blog post, but is able to show the benefits of using Dependency Injection.

Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 - Part 2

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:31:18 GMT

Beginners introduction to mocking using the recently released Moq 3 framework.

Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 - Part 1

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:31:07 GMT

A intro to mocking using the newly release Moq 3 framework.

Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Form With jQuery

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:16:03 GMT

Since many people who are being introduced to ASP.NET MVC are being simultaneously introduced to jQuery I felt like I'd give you a quick introduction to a few jQuery plug-ins that will help you make better forms. But most importantly make your forms better without you really having to do too much to them.

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

Infinite Lists With C# Yield

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:01:07 GMT

What we are about to talk about here may seem like a purely academic exercise, but hopefully I will convince you that this isn't exactly the case. There are several situations in real-world applications where infinite lists can appears if only we were to think about them in the right way.

What Part Of The Process Are Your Tools Optimized For?

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:16:02 GMT

I'm writing this post because I am getting tired and weary of people pointing to "drag and drop tools", "visual designers", and "wizards" as reasons to use a particular tool. Only in Microsoft-land are developers so enamored with "wizards" and "drag and drop" and I think this is because Microsoft is the proverbial "crack dealer" when it comes to providing these tools.

C# Trivia - What? No Overflow?

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:46:14 GMT

You may be thinking to yourself, "C# doesn't do overflow checking?" And the answer to your question is "not by default" when you are using non-constant expressions. Here's how to turn integer overflow checking on in C#.

ASP.NET MVC - Think Before You Bind

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:31:20 GMT

ASP.NET MVC is a powerful and simple framework, but there are a few things that ASP.NET developers will need to pay careful attention to when moving to MVC. This post discusses the automatic binding abilities in ASP.NET MVC and why you need to think before you bind.

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 1

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:16:04 GMT

Need to use the Entity Framework but don't know how to fit it into your domain? Come check out this series on CodeThinked.com where you will learn how to keep your domain entities fairly clean while using the Entity Framework.

Migrations in C# using RikMigrations

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:31:14 GMT

Jealous of those pesky Ruby on Rails developers? Want to be able to use Migrations in your .net apps? Well then check this post out!

How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:31:10 GMT

Do you bad software and unhappy developers? Well, it isn't that hard...

Using System.Web.Abstractions in Your WebForms Apps

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:31:14 GMT

Check out how to use the System.Web.Abstractions assembly in your ASP.NET WebForms applications!

Using System.Web.Abstractions in Your WebForms Apps

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:31:14 GMT

Check out how to use the System.Web.Abstractions assembly in your ASP.NET WebForms applications!