MonoRail Quickly - Screencast

joeydotnet.com — 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. read more...

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Building the often needed anti-corruption layer

joeydotnet.com — "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. read more...

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Preliminary thoughts on TDD with MSTest in Orcas

joeydotnet.com — 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... read more...

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

joeydotnet.com — 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. read more...

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Validating business rules which require a call to a repository

joeydotnet.com — 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. read more...

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TDD Resources (a short list)

joeydotnet.com — 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! read more...

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MediaPortal - MCE Killer?

joeydotnet.com — 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! read more...

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

joeydotnet.com — 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. read more...

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