Tim Barcz

Contributing to Open Source Without Committing a Line Of Code

People sometimes ask how to get involved in open source software. In fact Scott Hanselman posted on a the subject in great detail over two years ago when detailed how you could submit a patch to an open source project . Good intentions aside...

Published 01-24-2009 10:53 PM by Tim Barcz

Real Life Single Responsibility Principle

S.O.L.I.D. principles seem to be a hot topic. The guys over at LosTechies.com explored it last year in March as their topic of the month and did a great job of it. I know when I read blogs I enjoy when different authors post on similar topics. ...

Published 01-05-2009 2:23 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Principles

NHProfiler - An Early Look

Over the past week I've had the distinct opportunity to have a first-hand look into NHProf , Ayende's upcoming profiler for NHibernate . It's been an honor to be part of the team that is putting NHProfiler through its paces. While...

Published 12-09-2008 1:09 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: NHibernate, NHProf, Tools

Creating Temporary Passwords - Bring in da' Func<T>

One of the features that I really like in .NET 3.5 is Func<T> . For those of you who aren't familiar with Func<T>, it is simply a delegate. While I generally haven't seen many people who embrace delegates, it may be due...

Published 12-02-2008 8:36 PM by Tim Barcz

Developer Book Club - Recommendations Needed

Today I tossed the idea of a developer book club out to the rest of my team. They all seemed to be on board with varying degrees of enthusiasm. I know that we won't be the first to try this and so I'm hoping some of you out there can...

Published 11-18-2008 7:37 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Help

Windsor Components, the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and Bug Verification Tests

Shhh...don't tell anyone but we don't unit test all of our code. We're striving to get all developers and managers on board with unit testing but we're not there yet. Despite our delinquency in writing tests one thing we do...

Published 11-14-2008 10:38 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Testing, Castle Project, Windsor, Tips And Tricks

How To Approach Development

I don't typically link blog and I do my best to write substantive original material, but the following is too good to pass up. It's how I feel and how I've approach work in the last year or so. From Ayende's Reducing The Cost...

Published 11-13-2008 9:50 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Agile

Iowa Code Camp 2 - In Review

This past weekend in West Des Moines, Iowa I attended the Iowa Code Camp . This was the second such event this year and it amazes me how well these events have gone given they are in their infancy. The leadership deserves a huge round of kudos...

Published 11-10-2008 2:05 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Community, Code Camps

Exercise Caution When Using Floating Point Numbers

I understand floating point numbers can be somewhat imprecise but I'm a bit bothered today when I see the following evaluates to false: 1: float f = .16f; 2: double d = .16d; 3: 4: Assert.That(f, Is.EqualTo(d)) Annoyingly I wanted to see what...

Published 11-05-2008 2:13 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Rant, Help

Test First or Test Driven, Who Cares?

This past weekend I attended the Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference in Austin, Texas. This conference brought together many brilliant minds in the .NET community for the expressed purpose of continuous improvement. The...

Published 11-03-2008 10:42 PM by Tim Barcz

Alt.NET Austin - Workshops Day 2, Conference Day 1

Yesterday was the first day of the pre-conference workshops at the Kaizen Continuous Improvement Conference . Day two was a bit more invigorating for me since I attended two topics (Opinionated MVC and Fluent API's with C#) which got my head...

Published 11-01-2008 3:52 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Alt.NET

Alt.NET Austin - Workshops Day 1

I'm in Austin, Texas for the Kaizen Continuous Improvement Conference this weekend. One of the very cool things the organizers did for this event was offer two days of workshops before the conference. While I'm excited for the conference...

Published 11-01-2008 1:17 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: DDD, NHibernate, Alt.NET

Mass Transit - Part 2 of N

Last week I posted the first in a series on Mass Transit , an open source enterprise messaging system. This series is my public exploration into messaging for our eCommerce application. In this post I'm going to dig in to see an actual...

Published 10-21-2008 10:28 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Mass Transit

Continuous Improvement - One Developers Journey

When I started my current position six months ago I was brought in to help with development of their new website application. Whether my boss knew it or not, that meant that I would be bringing a host of baggage with me. When I came I brought along of...

Published 10-14-2008 9:09 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Interview, Improvement

Mass Transit - Part 1 of N

This post is the first in a series of posts I plan to do about MassTransit , an open source messaging system written by Dru Sellers ( blog ) and Chris Patterson . I plan on blogging my observations as I explore both the implementation and the source...

Published 10-13-2008 5:05 PM by Tim Barcz