Software Design/ALT.NET 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) - Rob Conery responds to Joel's statement, "IoC containers take a simple, elegant, and useful concept, and make it something you have to study for two days with a 200-page manual" with a short tutorial to show...
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Agile/TDD TDD Triage - The echoes from Joel Spolsky’s Duct Tape blog continue. Uncle Bob, after all the controversy from his last two posts, talks about where TDD works and where it doesn’t Software Development Tools My History of Visual Studio (Part 3) - Rico Mariani continues the story...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor to NUnit, called xUnit.Net . Jim, is of course, the originator...
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Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor to NUnit, called xUnit.Net . Jim, is of course, the...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section I...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O/RM...
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Cross-posted from CB Blog What Ayende said here that is, " Building the application using TDD, IoC, OR/M, etc would create a maintainable application, but it wouldn't be maintainable by someone who doesn't know all that. Building an application application using proven bad practices will...
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Cross-posted from CB Blog What Ayende said here that is, " Building the application using TDD, IoC, OR/M, etc would create a maintainable application, but it wouldn't be maintainable by someone who doesn't know all that. Building an application application using proven bad practices will ensure...
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Cross-posted from my main Code Better blog We went over 2,000 unit tests this past week during Iteration 72 on our Agile project . Of course, over the course of the last 18-24 months we have removed some tests, and in many cases, refactored the existing tests many times. We also have been learning a...
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Cross-posted from my main Code Better blog We went over 2,000 unit tests this past week during Iteration 72 on our Agile project . Of course, over the course of the last 18-24 months we have removed some tests, and in many cases, refactored the existing tests many times. We also have been learning a...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles of...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I consider...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...
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Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over...
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Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...
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Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the issue tracker ( http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question Another architect...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both of which...
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Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to the...
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Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit tests...
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I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...
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I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF's...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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In the last post , I talked about how we had reached Iteration 33 and gone to CTP with a large International bank. I alluded to some problems. Of course, one of the CTP's main purposes was to find problems and learn from them. We ended up having a variety of problems. There were initial problems in the...
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I mentioned back months ago how well things were going back in Iteration 20 . Since that time, we have been consistently hitting our weekly Iteration targets with exception of the previously noted one here . We did learn a lot from that Iteration and move on by not repeating the mistakes. Specifically...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public release on...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly simple...
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Continuing after our last posts on both blogs, Steve details the overall process we use....
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Continuing after our last posts on both blogs, Steve details the overall process we use....
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Steve, one of our senior developers, writes quite elequently on the post I was going to write: we completly failed in last week's Iteration and it sucked. He talks also that much being written about Agile, much of it from people that have never done it. Well, simply, Agile is not a silver bullet...
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Steve, one of our senior developers, writes quite elequently on the post I was going to write: we completly failed in last week's Iteration and it sucked. He talks also that much being written about Agile, much of it from people that have never done it. Well, simply, Agile is not a silver bullet. It...
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I talked about our Agile process in that we do all the full XP practices especially Pair Programming, with tables we took apart and put in a corner, and our tools every day for all production code. What we found extremely fustrating and was impacting our velocity significantly, was that we were pairing...
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I talked about our Agile process in that we do all the full XP practices especially Pair Programming, with tables we took apart and put in a corner, and our tools every day for all production code. What we found extremely fustrating and was impacting our velocity significantly, was that we were pairing...
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Charlie says, "The first Beta of NUnit 2.4 is now available on from any of the usual places: http://nunit.org/?p=download http://nunit.com/nunit/?p=download http://sourceforge.net/project/nunit The NUnit team has spent a lot of time on this release and we're proud of its new features. The crashing...
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Charlie says, "The first Beta of NUnit 2.4 is now available on from any of the usual places: http://nunit.org/?p=download http://nunit.com/nunit/?p=download http://sourceforge.net/project/nunit The NUnit team has spent a lot of time on this release and we're proud of its new features. The crashing...
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Charlie just announced an early alpha 2.4 version of NUnit on the TDD list . As he said. "it's an Alpha release, it's not intended for most folks ..." but "Of course, it also may be useful to those who absolutely need one of the new features. :-)." I need these new features...
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Charlie just announced an early alpha 2.4 version of NUnit on the TDD list . As he said. "it's an Alpha release, it's not intended for most folks ..." but "Of course, it also may be useful to those who absolutely need one of the new features. :-)." I need these new features which...
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Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-) Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces , " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores...
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Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-) Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces , " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Steve has an excellent post on refactoring code from "Manager" classes that implemented Evan's DDD Repoistory pattern to classes that used the ActiveRecord pattern. Like Steve, I have also had a lot of success in using ActiveRecord in my designs and cleaning up the architecture. The issue...
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Steve has an excellent post on refactoring code from "Manager" classes that implemented Evan's DDD Repoistory pattern to classes that used the ActiveRecord pattern. Like Steve, I have also had a lot of success in using ActiveRecord in my designs and cleaning up the architecture. The issue that...
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I have been in Austin Texas the last 2 days joining my CodeBetter mates Jeffery Palermo , Jeremy Miller and the one and only Scott Bellaware last night for a bbq at Jeff's house in Leander, TX. Jeff talks about it here . Then I gave a 2 hour talk on Extreme Programming with .NET to an overflow audience...
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I have been in Austin Texas the last 2 days joining my CodeBetter mates Jeffery Palermo , Jeremy Miller and the one and only Scott Bellaware last night for a bbq at Jeff's house in Leander, TX. Jeff talks about it here . Then I gave a 2 hour talk on Extreme Programming with .NET to an overflow audience...
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Oh no, here he goes again with one of those Agile posts, he must be on a religious fervor again, yah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday, Peter... how dare you use something that works so predictably for you.. yah Anyhow, I mentioned our continuing fustrations with our Agile Estimating (lack of...
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Oh no, here he goes again with one of those Agile posts, he must be on a religious fervor again, yah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday, Peter... how dare you use something that works so predictably for you.. yah Anyhow, I mentioned our continuing fustrations with our Agile Estimating (lack...
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