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Time to slow down the Oslo hype

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:08:43 GMT

Jeremy Millers views on the Oslo hype.

Ian talks about L2S Being killed

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:16:13 GMT

great post from Ian on the choice of EF over L2S decision from Microsoft.

LINQ To SQL is Dead - Read Between the Lines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:46:13 GMT

David Hayden with some great points on the Linq to SQL announcement and some ideas on how the project could be saved.

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

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

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

BDD - Consider your audience

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:35:32 GMT

Reminder to focus on the language of your users/domain experts.

Thoughts on validation in ASP.NET MVC applications

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:54:55 GMT

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.)

Taking a look at NUnit 2.5 Alpha 3

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:30:39 GMT

Detailed look at NUnit 2.5 alpha 3.

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

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:10:53 GMT

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

Projects In Visual Studio

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:53:52 GMT

Ideas for how to improve the experience of using projects with Visual Studio.

The all positive post

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:45:57 GMT

Description of new technologies Jeremy is using on a Web project and how those technologies are shaping up.

Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:34:35 GMT

Arguing that setters in your domain model can be harmful.

TDD and Hard To Test Areas

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:43:41 GMT

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.

Showing some support for LINQ to SQL

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Great article detailing why LINQ to SQL deserves some attention particularly if you buy into the object oriented style of development or are currently working with an ORM such as NHibernate.

donjon - an agile project management web app

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

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."

Spicing up our NHibernate Fluent Interface with pluggable conventions

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:51:53 GMT

More discussion of the fluent interface Jeremy is creating to allow easy configurationof NHibernate.

The criticism of the Entity Framework - not just around DDD

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

Describing the historical context for the criticism for EF>.

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

TDD, Mocks and Design

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:47:37 GMT

Interesting discussion of how avoiding getters/setters effects design/testing.