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Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:03 GMT

Taking a look at how to create a custom function for your NAnt script. After you have the basics of NAnt down you may quickly find out that there are features you need, but they are not part of the core library. The good news for you is that in very little effort or coding you can create your own custom assembly which will expose your newly created NAnt functions

Learning the Decorator Pattern

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Taking at how we can use the Decorator Pattern in our application. The decorator pattern is a structural pattern which allows you to attach new or additional actions to an object dynamically. Using the decorator pattern provides a very clean and flexible alternative to subclassing (via inheritance) your object and thus creating an unwanted inheritance tree

Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Pre/Post Conditions

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at the new Code Contracts library which is out of MS Research and will be part of .Net 4.0/Vs2010. Contracts allow for many different ways to perform language agnostic code validation and in this episode we are going to focus on how to setup pre and post condition validation.

Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:45:05 GMT

Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine inside Visual Studio

Learning the Observer Pattern

Fri, 08 May 2009 07:46:08 GMT

Taking a look at how we can use the Observer Pattern in our application. The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application.

Git, SSH, PuTTY, GitHub, Unfuddle, the kitchen sink

Fri, 08 May 2009 02:31:03 GMT

After reading a good number of the guides for getting Git/ GitHub/ Unfuddle working correctly in Windows, I finally got it sorted out. I had to use a bunch of things I had not used before so I realized it's probably a good idea to share my findings, hoping to help someone else (and maybe myself again) in the future.

Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released!

Tue, 05 May 2009 13:46:04 GMT

Some would say that it is about time, I would agree. Windsor might not be the OSS project in pre release state for the longest time (I think that the honor belong to Hurd), but it spent enough time at that state to at least deserve a honorary mention. f you will look, you won't find Windsor 1.0, only release candidates for 1.0. As I believe I mentioned, Windsor has been production ready for a long time, and for the full release we decided to skip the 1.0 designator, which doesn't really fit, and go directly to 2.0

5 things you'd be willing to chop off System.Byte for

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:06:09 GMT

What is your list of 5 things you'd be willing to chop off System.Byte for?

Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:46:03 GMT

Taking a look at how you can navigate your souce code using ReSharper 4.5

Juicy, a simple webserver

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:28:16 GMT

This tiny web server is intended to be used in self-contained tests or applications where it's unreasonable to require an IIS virtual directory to be configured just to open some content in a browser using HTTP. It was build with the goal of creating JavaScript unit tests that won't need any server configuration to execute in a CI environment.

Creating SOLID Code: Dependency Inversion Principle

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:01:04 GMT

Taking a look at how to create SOLID Code: Creating SOLID Code: Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP). This is a last episode in a series where we will take a look at each of the parts the SOLID Princi

Retrieving data from a REST based service using C

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:31:02 GMT

A short overview on how you can retrieve data from a REST based service using C#.

Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Mapping with Composite Keys

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:01:03 GMT

In this episode we will continue our short series on how to use the FluentNHibernate library to create you NHibernate mapping files. We will walk you though how to create your mappings for tables which have Composite Keys. This is NOT meant to teach you how to use the NHibernate OR/M

Creating SOLID Code: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Taking a look at how to create SOLID Code: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). This is a first in a series where we will take a look at each of the parts the SOLID Principle

JavaScript, inner functions and private members

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:28:25 GMT

If you must have private members in your JavaScript objects, you can. Inner functions and closures will come to our rescue.

Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:31:02 GMT

CodeBetter - in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us - is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com - a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs of the server farm and providing a TeamCity Enterprise license. Volunteers from CodeBetter, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us are administering the servers and setting up OSS projects on the build grid.

Understand closures with JavaScript

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Closures are a programming concept that can be a bit intimidating but it shouldn't be this way. Hopefully this short article can clarify how that works and how to avoid problems when using it.

Introduction to the Routing Engine in the ASP.Net Framework

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:16:18 GMT

Introduction to the video tutorial on how to use the Routing Engine in the ASP.Net Framework. We will be using the Routing Engine within the MVC framework for this example.

Taking a look at how to separate out your WCF service project into mul

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:31:18 GMT

Taking a look at how to separate out your WCF service project into multiple parts. We take a look at how you can put your entities in one project and the interfaces into another. This allows for better separation of concerns.

JavaScript, 5 wyas to call a function

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:01:04 GMT

Get a hold of what can seem confusing when invoking functions in JavaScript.

Generated by a tool, not for human consumption

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:25:56 GMT

Use wisdom when choosing your tools. Not all of them are made equal. What drove me over the edge to get this post out was seeing a tooltip like "Gets the name of the nick".

C# Design Patterns - Observer Pattern

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:03 GMT

Continuing to use our city dog registration software senario, one of the project's requirements is that the dog's owner's be notified whenever a dog is processed for an infraction (i.e. picked up by the dog catcher). The Observer pattern is perfectly suited to solve this problem.

Building a Nant Script -- Part 2: Adding NUnit tests

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:46:05 GMT

Taking a look at how to create a build script with Nant, learning how to add NUnit tests

Replacing the default view engine in MVC w/ Spark

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:16:15 GMT

DimeCast - Replacing the default view engine in MVC w/ Spark

Learning how to use the XML Serializer

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:16:06 GMT

Taking a look at how you can simplify your coding efforts when you need to turn an object model into XML or your XML document into an object model.