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Identifing Waste, the Lean Way

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:57:20 GMT

As mentioned in a previous blog post, waste elimination is usually the most obvious and least resistant way to improve value and flow in a product. So I'm just going to jump right into some of the waste factors that are usually easy to identify, evaluate, modify and sustain their solutions in software product development. Not going to cover all forms of waste, just the most common ones.

MSpec v0.2

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:02:22 GMT

It's been a while, but we've gotten several new things into Machine.Specifications (MSpec). I'm excited to finally release them for everyone to start playing with. You can grab the bits here. Let's talk about what's new though. Here's an example of a new context/spec:

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Community Reality Check: Is INETA a concrete life raft?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:49:18 GMT

As an attempt to continually improve my contributions to the community, I'm trying to determine the value I'm generating through the volunteering of my time. What, dear reader, would you say is INETA's place in today's ever changing world of .NET?

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

rules for spartan programmers : Using NDepend Query Techniques

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:23:41 GMT

Excellent content as always from the genius behind NDepend.

The Onion Architecture

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:16:08 GMT

The fundamental rule is that all code can depend on layers more central, but code cannot depend on layers further out from the core. This architecture is unashamedly biased toward object-oriented programming, and it puts objects before all others.

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.

Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:46:11 GMT

With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that haven't heard of AAA, it's a pattern for authoring unit tests: * Arrange - set up the unit under test * Act - exercise the unit under test, capturing any resulting state * Assert - verify the behavior through assertions As I moved towards BDD context/specification style tests, working with Rhino Mocks didn't fit the picture very well. But with the new AAA syntax of Rhino Mocks 3.5, I can very cleanly separate out the behavior I want to observe from the mechanics of setting up the test.

ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities

Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:46:10 GMT

If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered in the Foundations series.

Seperations of concerns

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:31:03 GMT

This is the 5th and last part in a series on hoow to make a bad application better. Wonderfully explained. There is a lot to learn from this.

Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:46:06 GMT

I've been hearing from several colleagues about how their Visual Studio solution files have many (i.e. more than 10, and usually more than 30 -- in one case, more than 100!). So far, none of them have been able to give me any good explanation for why this is and most of them hate it but they can't change it because their architect/lead/whatever won't let them. I'm hoping that by getting the discussion going on this in the greater community, we can try to discourage everyone from having lots of projects in a solution.

Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 1

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:31:06 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 sat down with the hosts Keith and Woody to discuss this growing design practice and also discuss how it could be used with the .NET platform.

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

Can someone tell me why i shouldn't drop WCF?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:16:02 GMT

In this post i question the usage of a WCF service layer instead of going for a NServiceBus based messaging approach

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 7 - Object-Relational Mapping

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:16:02 GMT

In this episode Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) and Jeremy Miller discuss Object-Relational Mapping and when to use ORM tools.

Doctors We Ain't

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:50:13 GMT

Software developers and architects don't have all the answers... but who does? Dave discusses some common patterns for figuring out our role in the great game of software.

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:31:09 GMT

Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

How to Scale with Memcached on .NET

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:16:08 GMT

Though .NET apps scale well thanks to caching, you can always use Memcached to scale further.

Do You have the Time to Learn Everything?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:31:04 GMT

.Net is huge, and constantly. Do you have the time to learn everything? If no, how should you prioritize?

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with Reflectio

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:31:08 GMT

Some beautiful code.

.NET Developers' Reference Card Round-Up

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:31:09 GMT

I thought I would share this list of reference cards / cheat sheets that I have compiled over the last year or so. If I am missing any good ones, please post them in the comments.

Looking at Rhino Mocks 3.5 (RC1)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:47:51 GMT

Looking at some of the new goodies in Rhino Mocks 3.5