Ian talks about L2S Being killed

codebetter.com — great post from Ian on the choice of EF over L2S decision from Microsoft. read more...

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LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

codebetter.com — Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea. read more...

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Thoughts on validation in ASP.NET MVC applications

blog.codeville.net — MVC Preview 5 comes with two new API pieces that seem relevant to validation: ModelState. Controllers now have an official way to pass validation error information to views. Populate ViewData.ModelState, then you can use the built-in HTML helpers to render error message summaries, and to highlight input fields that correspond to errors. Model binders. Controllers are expected to populate model objects from form posts using the IModelBinder API. You can create custom binders - the framework calls your binder to obtain a value for each model property. (If you don’t understand this, don’t worry - it turns out not to be relevant.) read more...

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Ward's Wiki is still a great resource from Jeremy D. Miller

submitted by dcarr 4 months, 14 days ago

codebetter.com — From Jeremy Miller.. This is fantastic and this information is so utterly vital to success and optimization for teams. It kills me most fail to leverage the real benefit of 'speaking in patterns' at a mastery level where it is understood that the conceptual OO design is easy and trivial compared with changing your culture. Yet once it happens an entire cascade of changes often happen I have noticed which drives tems to obvious places in domain-driven 'ubiquitous language'. Damon read more...

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The all positive post

codebetter.com — Description of new technologies Jeremy is using on a Web project and how those technologies are shaping up. read more...

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TDD and Hard To Test Areas

codebetter.com — I wanted to talk about the issues that people get when they begin working with TDD, the same issues that tend to make them abandon TDD after an initial experiment. Those are the 'hard-to-test' areas, the things production code needs to do, that those presentations and introductory books just don't seem to explain well. In this post we will start with a quick review of TDD, and then get into why people fail when they start trying to use it. Next time around we will look more closely at solutions. read more...

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donjon - an agile project management web app

hammett.castleproject.org — From hammet - the man behind the castle project "Our first goal is to make an agile project management web app. Why? We are not happy with the apps we have been using. They clearly are clueless regarding usability, and the pricing is unreasonable - not to mention the drug dealer selling model. The one that has a very decent UI is just not flexible. Also, I’m not a total fan of SaaS model, so I’d rather host my and my clients projects and important data." read more...

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The criticism of the Entity Framework - not just around DDD

codebetter.com — Describing the historical context for the criticism for EF>. read more...

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