Billy McCafferty

Your First S#arp Project in 15 Minutes

The most daunting task when trying out or learning a new framework or technology is figuring out where the heck to start. Take S#arp Architecture for instance (arguably, the world's most insanely amazing framework ever written by mankind...more or...

Published 02-01-2010 4:11 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: S#arp Architecture

Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint

Admit it, we've all written bad code now and again. Unfortunately, your bad code over time can leave a lasting footprint on the technosphere. If you're beginning to feel guilty about your bad code footprint, do know that you have options! While...

Published 11-23-2009 2:01 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: DeepThoughtsByJackHandey

S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released

I'm pleased to announce that S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 has been released at http://github.com/codai/Sharp-Architecture/downloads . This isn't a major upgrade, just an incremental, quarterly release to help developers work with the latest...

Published 11-12-2009 6:08 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: S#arp Architecture

Dependency Injection 101

(It looks like Kevin Pang and I must have seen the same vision this weekend or had a close encounter flashback as he's concurrently putting together a great series on Dependency Injection for Dummies ...be sure to check out his posts for another take...

Published 11-09-2009 3:26 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Architecture, Patterns

Speaking at Virtual ALT.NET Tonight

If you're interested in... Finding out what's new in S#arp Architecture Q3 2009, Hearing about what the Contrib project has to offer, Going into a couple of S#arp topics in detail, such as... Getting up and running quickly, Handling object associations...

Published 11-04-2009 10:07 AM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: S#arp Architecture

The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects

For years I used nothing but Windows. When I started getting into robotics (for fun - let me know if you'd like me to do it professionally ;), I had to dive into the Linux world. After only a couple of weeks with Ubuntu, I was stunned at how far behind...

Published 10-29-2009 8:34 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Development Tools, Agile Development, S#arp Architecture

Where are we with P = NP?

KurzweilAI.net led me to a terrific article concerning the current status of answering the question of whether or not P = NP. As the author, Lance Fortnow, aptly notes, "The P versus NP problem has gone from an interesting problem related to logic...

Published 10-08-2009 3:06 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: DeepThoughtsByJackHandey

A S#arp Project Case Study

Like Jimmy Bogard , I was pleased to read a post from Howard van Rooijen on the S#arp Architecture forums concerning the use of S#arp Architecture and Bogard's AutoMapper in the timely development of http://www .fancydressoutfitters.co.uk . With a...

Published 10-08-2009 12:55 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: S#arp Architecture

S#arp Architecture Contrib...it's alive!

As if developing ASP.NET MVC applications with S#arp Architecture couldn't get any more flippin' exciting... I'm pleased to announce S#arp Architecture Contrib which promises to take S#arp Architecture into new territory, such as providing...

Published 10-05-2009 4:02 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: S#arp Architecture

Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services

Frequently, when we adapt new technologies or techniques, the new fix ends up introducing new "yucky" stuff or simply pushes the previous yucky stuff to another area. Since "yucky" just might be a bit subjective here, I consider yucky...

Published 09-16-2009 11:29 AM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture, DDD

S#arp Architecture has Moved to GitHub (this ain't yo momma's SCM)

Subversion's a great product and hosting on code.google.com with it has been very convenient for getting the S#arp Architecture project to the 1.0 release. But with the large number of ideas people have been wanting to try out on the S#arp Architecture...

Published 09-14-2009 12:48 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: S#arp Architecture

Getting Kids Into Programming

It's well known that there's a continually growing, global need for high tech labor. And as the world's residents become further dependent on technology, the technological environment itself is increasingly demanding humanity to become ever...

Published 09-01-2009 11:46 AM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Development Tools

What project phase are you in?

6 Phases of a Project: Enthusiasm Disillusionment Panic A Search for the Guilty The Punishment of the Innocent Praise and Honor for the Non-Participants Would you call this CMMI level 0? Found this while looking for useful C++ coding standards ...couldn't...

Published 08-19-2009 10:24 AM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: DeepThoughtsByJackHandey

Writing a Custom NHibernate Class Validator

I've been asked a few times if it's possible to use NHibernate Validator to create a custom validator at the class level, in addition to custom property validators. The short answer is yes. (But it would make a rather uninteresting post if I stopped...

Published 07-30-2009 3:42 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: NHibernate, S#arp Architecture

Frequent Cause of WCF Exception "The connection was closed unexpectedly"

If you're communicating with WCF via a ClientBase proxy class, you may, at one time or another, have encountered the cryptic exception "The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly." If your WCF method is...

Published 07-29-2009 2:24 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: WCF

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Your First S#arp Project in 15 Minutes

Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint

S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released

Dependency Injection 101

Speaking at Virtual ALT.NET Tonight

The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects

Where are we with P = NP?

A S#arp Project Case Study

S#arp Architecture Contrib...it's alive!

Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services

S#arp Architecture has Moved to GitHub (this ain't yo momma's SCM)

Getting Kids Into Programming

What project phase are you in?

Writing a Custom NHibernate Class Validator

Frequent Cause of WCF Exception "The connection was closed unexpectedly"