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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

NH2.1: Executable HQL

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:15:57 GMT

New feature in NHibernate

Kobe - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Karl Seguin weighs in on the latest MS ASP.NET MVC sample app

Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:46:02 GMT

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch!

Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:16:17 GMT

As a follow up to the last podcast that featured Mike Moore and Scott Bellware discussing Alt.Net I spoke with Jeremy Miller to put out a vision for what he feels Alt.Net should represent and how it can be a positive thing in the community. This will be the last episode here on this topic, I promise to get back to normal technology discussions (next episode is about BDD and TDD).

Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:19:22 GMT

You know its true.

What makes a system hard to work with?

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:41:36 GMT

What makes a system hard to work with? ...

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

Back to Basics: Interfaces

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:46:09 GMT

When it comes to object-oriented programming there are few concepts as basic and important as interfaces. Only recently though, and at a snails pace, have .NET developers started to take advantage of the simple benefits interfaces have to offer. This interest stems from the core role interfaces play in some pretty hot topics, including: dependency injection, unit testing and mocking (to name a few).

Alt.Net Podcast: The State of IronRuby 2009

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:31:13 GMT

A quick update on the state of the IronRuby project with John Lam.

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.

A response to Validation in a DDD world

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:16:02 GMT

Jimmy Bogard presented a well written argument for always keeping validation out of entities in a domain driven design except in "the absolute worst case." But, IMO, there is simply no black and white verdict on where validation must live in a DDD application and must be carefully considered at the beginning of any project, taking into consideration the motivations behind validation, the scope of the project, the maturity of the development team, and the balance between philosophical purity and practical maintainability.

A Quick Example of YAGNI / Simplest Thing Possible in Action

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:16:14 GMT

If you've ever worked on an Agile/XP team you've surely heard something in the lines of "Let's YAGNI that. (YAGNI == You aren't gonna need it)" You've probably also heard the phrase "do the simplest thing that could possibly work." Both of these sayings are an exhortion to developers to avoid overdesign and analysis/paralysis by focusing on the here and now instead of getting caught up in designing for a conjectural need. I called YAGNI on something today.

Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:02 GMT

Maarten Balliauw announces his new book and provides a large retrospective on the writing process itself. Must read for everyone thinking about writing a tech book!

DDD command query separation as an architectural concept

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:46:03 GMT

Another one of the excellent serie on DDD by casey.

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.

Cost? (Cost of Messaging)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:31:17 GMT

We have come to a very very very important question. What is the cost of Command Query Separation and Messaging in general in comparison to say a more traditional architecture? I would like to look at this from two perspectives. The first perspective is that of the actual cost of using the types of methodologies I bring up. In other words what physical overhead can we see as a result of making the choice?

NH2.1.0: New generators

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

NHibernate new identity-style generators available for various dialects.

Why aren't I an MVP?

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:16:03 GMT

There's a problem with the MVP program I'd like to talk about. The fact that I'm no longer an MVP (haven't been for over a year now) isn't the problem, merely a symptom. My problem is that I don't know why I'm not an MVP, and by extension I don't know why others are. The process of becoming and remaining an MVP is completely opaque. Plainly, the MVP program lacks transparency.

"Quality Doesn't Matter That Much" -- Jeff and Joel

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:16:02 GMT

I was riding my exercise bike, listening to Stack Overflow #38 when I heard Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky say "Quality just doesn't matter that much." I nearly fell off my bike.

Welcome to the anemic age

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:57:57 GMT

... where we stop using the OO goodness and go back to procedural programming.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

Repository<T> good or bad?

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:01:06 GMT

Greg took a bite on current ALT .Net hot topic: Generic repositories

NHibernate.Linq Alpha Released

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:16:08 GMT

NHibernate.Linq is a Linq provider for NHibernate 2.0.1 GA. It processes Linq expressions using NHibernate's Criteria API. This release is meant as a stopgap release pending an implementation not reliant on the Criteria API. Most queries are supported with the exception of the following: - Group Joins - Subqueries in select clause

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:31:03 GMT

Talking with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.