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Implementing a REST service with WCF (part 1)

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:46:14 GMT

A short how to on implementing a REST service with WCF.

Exploring Extension Methods in C

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Short howto screencast on using and implementing Extension Methods

MonoRail Quickly - Screencast

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Well it was bound to happen at some point. My first screencast. It's a quick walkthrough on how you can get a baseline MonoRail solution up and running. Yeah, I know. Everyone's talking about MS MVC these days, and I'm certainly just as excited about it as anyone else. But MonoRail is still a very nice MVC framework that can be fully leveraged now.

Presentation Model: Screen Store Example

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:32:29 GMT

You can grab the entire source code (either from my google code repository or in this convenient little zip file). Feel free to browse the code for a bit, but come back to this post so I can show an example of adding a new, simple feature using this code base.

Building the often needed anti-corruption layer

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:47:27 GMT

"Agile Joe" and I were chatting about the challenges of building on top of existing application platforms, specifically ones like Microsoft CRM (which Ayende is painfully dealing with) and Commerce Server 2007, which is what I'm dealing with on my current project.

Refactoring towards a DRY, fluent interface

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:46:13 GMT

In my current project, I have an application service that is used to make various modifications to a shopping cart, like adding cart items, applying discounts, changing quantities, etc. Well as this service class evolved, the methods were starting to look like this...

TDD vs. Design discussion

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Blog entry from JP Boodhoo about when to use UML diagramming and how it fits in to the TDD/Agile paradigm. Good read.

Agile Development

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:20:29 GMT

Concurring with Scott Bellware on his points about Agile Development not having the answers, but the environment to find them.

Preliminary thoughts on TDD with MSTest in Orcas

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:31:01 GMT

Naysawn, the PM for MSTest, asked that I take a look at the new unit testing features of Orcas, after he read my thoughts on the (sad) current state of MSTest. Unfortunately, I haven't yet had a chance to actually fire up the Orcas VPC to play with it, but Naysawn wrote up a couple of posts describing some of the new features coming to MSTest in Orcas. So I figured I'd post some initial feedback on his posts as it relates to TDD...

Creating Composite View Components In MonoRail / Refactoring Exercise

Thu, 17 May 2007 05:46:01 GMT

In a previous post, I showed some examples of how to create custom view components in MonoRail and touched on the ability to create composite view components. Since then I've refactored towards the use of interfaces which I think is a cleaner approach, so I thought I'd share.

Agile Leadership and Coaching (Development Manager's Need to grow up!)

Thu, 17 May 2007 03:31:01 GMT

With modern business needs changing at a rapid pace, software development must respond in tandem. Agile Development Methodologies promote responding to change, by balancing order and chaos. This is an art form more than it is a practice. All too often have I chatted with development managers who have attempted to enact agile, only to fail. Is it the methodologies fault or a fault in leadership and understanding?

Leveraging 3rd party/OSS tools in a VSTS/TFS environment

Thu, 17 May 2007 07:16:01 GMT

In light of the recent TFS vs. OSS debates, I wanted to share how we are using both TFS and OSS tools to work with each other. Speaking as someone who has implemented (and extended!) TFS in a production environment since the early Beta 2 days and am currently using the VSTS/TFS stack, I can say that there is quite a bit of pain involved. But some of that can be alleviated by utilizing both commercial and OSS tools *with* TFS. Here are a few examples of how I (and some of our team) are "filling in the gaps" to make TFS and VSTS a little easier to work with.

Castle MonoRail & ActiveRecord - First Impressions

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:01:01 GMT

I've spent quite a few hours over the past few days playing with the amazing Castle Project (long overdue for me), mostly MonoRail and ActiveRecord. All I can say is WOW!

Validating business rules which require a call to a repository

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:46:01 GMT

Ayende has a couple of recent posts which relate to entities, services and repositories. In some of the comments, it was briefly discussed about if/how you should validate dynamic business rules that require a call to a repository.

Advanced .NET Training Course coming to Richmond, VA

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:05:38 GMT

Jean-Paul Boodhoo has just officially announced that he's giving his Nothin But .Net bootcamp course down here in Richmond, VA from March 26-30.

TDD Resources (a short list)

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:46:02 GMT

A co-worker needed some TDD links and tutorials to get him started down the enlightened path of Test-Driven Development, or as I prefer, Test-First Development just to emphasize the importance of writing your tests first!

The fundamental problems and impracticality of using MSTest

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:32:56 GMT

I can't help but chime in about MSTest, in repsonse to the latest post by Ayende regarding the comments on one of Scott Bellware's posts. This is just another area that Microsoft just doesn't seem to "get".

MediaPortal - MCE Killer?

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:31:01 GMT

I ran across this awesome open-source project called MediaPortal from a recent lifehacker article and it really caught my eye. So I downloaded it and installed it as a test on one of my XP boxes, and Wow!

A Journey with Domain Driven Design (and NHibernate) - Part 8

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:31:02 GMT

We left off last time with our first association mapped and tested. Let's dig in a bit deeper with NHibernate mapping. Today I decided to separate my inherited classes into their own mapping file. This was as easy as creating the new files and <hibernate-mapping> root elements, copying the <joined-subclass> elements over.

Now you can create you're own hammer factory factories...

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:31:02 GMT

Apparently MS will be providing a factory for creating your own application blocks for v3.0 of the Enterprise Library , should you desire to do so. Reading Ayende's latest post on this and his link to this flashback post from Joel Spolsky, had me rolling on the floor laughing.

DDD - Repositories & Factories

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:31:01 GMT

Nice example of using repositories and factories for persisting and retrieving your domain objects.

The Specification Pattern

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:31:02 GMT

An implementation of the specification pattern using .NET 2.0 features.

Websense is up to nonsense - Blocking Flickr

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:47:02 GMT

It seems Websense decided to block static.flickr.com in its latest database update #92635 on December 12th (as noted in this forum post).

The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:01:01 GMT

A concise and insightful description of the state of open source on the .NET platform.

Increase productivity with ReSharper templates

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:01:01 GMT

Download useful ReSharper templates and learn how to use them