November 2008 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

"Operation could destabilize the runtime" from Casting from Concrete to Interfaces with Linq

In all my years of doing .Net I have to say that I finally came across the exception message that takes the cake. Today while trying to do some refactoring on the DimeCasts.net code base I received this exception. Operation could destabilize the runtime...

Published 11-29-2008 10:19 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo

RenderPartial vs RenderAction

If you have been using the MVC framework I am sure you are aware that in many cases there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task. One such case in point is how to render content for a View. Now I am not talking about how to render an entire View...

Published 11-24-2008 4:08 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: asp.net, Best Practice, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

[ANN] Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

Well, it is about time we ( Tim , Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC bo ok with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge...

Published 11-19-2008 8:20 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Announcement, ASP.Net MVC

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

In my last post ( here ) I was giving a wrap up of the Mocking session I recently did at TriNug . In that post I gave some of the reasons (sorry, I meant excuses) people gave for not doing any type of automated testing during their dally development ritual...

Published 11-14-2008 5:58 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion, Rant

Talking Mocks at TriNug, what a great time, what a great group

Last night I had the opportunity to do my 'Taking your tests to the next level with Mocks' session to the TriNug user group. I would first like to say thanks to Doug Wilson and his entire group. They had a great turn out (45ish people) and they...

Published 11-13-2008 6:36 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, TDD, Rhino Mocks, Presentations

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Just wanted to send a message out there to anyone that is going to be in the Raleigh/Durham area this week. I will be giving 2 talks this week. One at TriNug and another at the Raleigh Code Camp . If you are in the area and want to stop by to heckle me...

Published 11-09-2008 4:53 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Announcement, ASP.Net MVC, Conference

Chicago Alt.Net this Wednesday - Nov 12th

It is time for this months installment of Chicago Alt.Net meeting. You can register here and get more information from our new site (thanks Sergio) at www.chicagoalt.net . Meeting Information The Different Views of ASP.NET MVC 6:00 pm Pizza and networking...

Published 11-09-2008 4:49 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Announcement, Chicago Alt.Net

The simplicity that is the Asp.Net MVC

Today I was browsing my list of RSS feeds and I stumbled upon a posting that showed some Asp.Net code. This code was nothing out of the ordinary, it was simply someone building a table with a repeater. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the...

Published 11-05-2008 5:25 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: asp.net, Opinion, ASP.Net MVC

Removing words like Convince, Convert and Persuade from our vocabulary

One of the common themes of this years KaizenConf was how to move a towards being a lean organization. During most of the sessions and conversations that I was part I cannot tell you how often I heard words like Convince, Convert and Persuade said. At...

Published 11-04-2008 5:26 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Methodology, Opinion, Featured

KaizenConf Wrap Up -- What an Exhausting Learning Experience

Well, that does it for this years KaizenConf . I can honestly say that I had a great time, I met some great people (nice to put faces to twitter handles) and shared some great stories. What is great is that when I setout to make it to this openspace conference...

Published 11-02-2008 6:53 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Conference

KaizenConf - Open Communication, Resistance to Change, Going with the Staus quo w/ reference to various team roles

Another session that I sat in on today was "Open communication, Resistance to change, Going with the status quo with reference to the various roles on the team " If I could wrap up the entire session in a phrase it would be the following: When...

Published 11-01-2008 3:20 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Conference

KaizenConf - Encouraging Change w/ Agile Examples

The first session I sat in today was titled 'Encouraging Change w/ Agile Examples'. This session was the combination of a few others and we took all the ideas and redirected into this. The intent of the session was to attempt to flush out ideas...

Published 11-01-2008 11:46 AM by Derik Whittaker

Kaizenconf day 1 wrap up

Yesterday was day 1 of this years KaizenConf and it got started off with a bang. I was not able to make it to most of the conferences pre-conference workshop, but I was able to make it to one. Fluent APIs with C# - Chad Myers Chad put together a great...

Published 11-01-2008 6:52 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Conference

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"Operation could destabilize the runtime" from Casting from Concrete to Interfaces with Linq

RenderPartial vs RenderAction

[ANN] Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Talking Mocks at TriNug, what a great time, what a great group

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Chicago Alt.Net this Wednesday - Nov 12th

The simplicity that is the Asp.Net MVC

Removing words like Convince, Convert and Persuade from our vocabulary

KaizenConf Wrap Up -- What an Exhausting Learning Experience

KaizenConf - Open Communication, Resistance to Change, Going with the Staus quo w/ reference to various team roles

KaizenConf - Encouraging Change w/ Agile Examples

Kaizenconf day 1 wrap up