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Thoughts on Nerd Dinner

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:35:57 GMT

A good review of the architecture of the Nerd Dinner project

jQuery Autocomplete JSON ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:01:02 GMT

Great overview of undocumented jQuery AutoComplete.

Neptune (personal SMTP testing server)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:46:13 GMT

Neptune is a SMTP Development Server targeted for use in automated testing. It's a SMTP server that does not relay the message and allows you to query for messages and their content.

Linq.Specifications - The Project

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:06:41 GMT

In the past few weeks I have revisited the specification pattern using Linq. I have teased it, toyed with it and tricked it up. And today I announce the public availability of a project demonstrating my current thoughts. You can grab the solution from Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/linq-specifications.

ASP.NET MVC and Json.NET

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Bringing Json.NET to ASP.NET MVC

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Achieving POCO s in Linq to SQL

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:01:02 GMT

How to get rid of Persistence Related code and making L2S Still work !

Blisteringly fast Integration Tests with NHibernate and SQLite

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:46:02 GMT

Intergration tests can be slow and can be painful to run often. In this post I cover using SQLite with NHibernate, and automatically switching between SQLite and SQL Server

IServiceLocator a step toward IoC container / Service locator detente

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:46:04 GMT

Today we launched an exciting project on CodePlex, namely the Common Service Locator library. What is it? It's a shared interface that applications and frameworks can reference in order to leverage IoC containers / service location mechanisms without taking hard dependencies.

Linq Expressions, The Specification Pattern and Repositories - Part 3

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:20:35 GMT

Part 3 in my Linq series. Here I show how to use a simple AdHoc specification to allow the greatest possible flexibility when querying via the repository.

Linq Expressions, The Specification Pattern and Repositories - Part 2

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:16:51 GMT

Part 2 in my series. Here I display a flexible repository solution for handling Linq based specifications.

Linq Expressions, The Specification Pattern and Repositories - Part 1

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:16:06 GMT

In this upcoming series of articles I break down the use of Linq Expressions to provide a flexible, queryable repoository interface. The key to the functionality is the expression parsing and deferred execution capacity of Linq. I chose Linq to NHibernate but any other Linq provider would require zero change to the specifications and only very minor changes to the repository implementation.

Does the Fluent NHibernate create static XML mapping files?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:40:57 GMT

This was one of the first questions I had when I started learning about the Fluent Nhibernate API. In this article, I want to explain why the API does not need to create static XML files. This API can create static XML files, but it is not necessary.

The Onion Architecture

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:16:08 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.

Test Driven Development - Beginners Screencast

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:12:33 GMT

I produced a screencast (first ever!) to show some of the basics of getting started with TDD in .Net. I intend to go into some more advanced topics as the series progresses.

Seperations of concerns

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:31:03 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.

How to use NDepend to improve code quality

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:16:09 GMT

Code quality is an important aspect of every software development project - discover how NDepend can aid in giving you a richer and more meaningful understanding of the quality of your code as well as helping to identify areas you could improve. This post is a high level overview of what you can achieve with NDepend.

Playing Nice With Service Locators

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:16:09 GMT

An explanation of how you can use the Service Locator pattern along with dependency injection to make your code more flexible in certain cases.

Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:31:02 GMT

Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem.

Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

Creating IN queries with Linq

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Rob Conery presents the ins-and-outs of the 'in' query in Linq To Sql.

The DotNetKicks Effect

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:31:02 GMT

An overview of traffic coming from DotNetKicks when an article makes it to the front page.

Happy 2nd Birthday DotNetKicks

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:46:02 GMT

DotNetKicks.com is 2 year old today. A big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the community.

MVC Membership Basics

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:46:03 GMT

Getting Register, Login, and Logout working in the recently released ASP.Net MVC framework. Downloadable code samples included.