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Development Methodology "Renovation"

I was watching Holmes on Homes today and got to thinking about parallels (or lack of them) between renovating and building a home vs developing a software application. Some of what I was thinking ties in with the " software development as craftsmanship...

Published 10-31-2009 6:18 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: craftsmanship

Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth

I just read Ron Jefferies latest post entitled My Named Cloud is Better Than Your Named Cloud and it got me riled up enough to post something I've been meaning to write about for at least a couple of years. His post touches on the point I'd wanted...

Published 06-24-2009 6:27 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Development, rant, process

Self Conscious Development

Write code as if you care what others think about what you’ve written.

Published 04-04-2008 8:23 PM by Jeff Perrin

What I Learned From X That Makes Me a Better Programmer in Y

Reginald Braithwaite says he'd love to hear stories about how programmers learned concepts from one language that made them better in another . This pretty neatly coincides with a post I've been meaning to make for months, so I might as well just...

Published 10-03-2007 9:30 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Development, Patterns, featured

Arguments You’ll Almost Never Hear

Here's a bit of a cheeky question... You know all those "conversations" us nerds have about scalability and performance where we endlessly debate about where to put business logic and whether scaling the database is easier than scaling the application...

Published 06-06-2007 9:35 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Development

Obscuring HTTP

Ayende has tried to explain why he doesn't like ASP.NET Webforms many times, but based on the comments that pop up on his posts I'm not sure if he's successfully getting his point across. I'll try to help him out in this instance, as I think the same...

Published 06-04-2007 10:09 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Webforms HTTP

Persistence Ignorance

People are talking about Microsoft's Entity framework and how it does not currently allow persistence ignorant domain objects. I've been torn about this issue for a while now . On the one hand, having an O/R mapper that is persistent ignorant essentially...

Published 03-14-2007 7:53 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Development, C#, .Net

Jeff in Java Land

Jeremy over at CodeBetter.com just wrote a post about his experiences in Java Land , and since I've been working on a Java project for over a year and a half now (with at least another year to go), I thought I'd share my thoughts as well. Before I get...

Published 12-30-2006 5:18 PM by Jeff Perrin

The Specification Pattern

Hot on the heels of my devastatingly fantastic post on an implementation of the Snapshot Pattern , I give you my next piece du resistance . In this little post, I'd like to delve into the Specification Pattern . So what the heck is it? Matt Berther provided...

Published 12-13-2006 7:34 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Development, C#, Patterns

A Modified Snapshot Pattern

I thought I'd share a solution and ideas around a problem that seems to come up from time to time in past systems I've built. I'll walk you through the implementation of a modified Snapshot Pattern in C#. First off, what is the Snapshot pattern, and why...

Published 11-16-2006 6:33 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: C#, .Net, Patterns

Around the Web #1

Since everyone else does it, I figured I'd start linking as well: Keith Ray on the downsides to mocking Brian Marick writes an interesting response to an article on system design Oren starts a project from scratch using RC2 of the Castle Framework...

Published 11-01-2006 8:23 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Links

Thoughts on Code in ASPX Pages

This post was inspired by a comment I saw on another person's blog (which I couldn't find for the life of me, so no linky for them). The comment was in regards to Ruby on Rails use of pure ruby code in the .rhtml view files, and how this was seen...

Published 10-25-2006 6:50 PM by Jeff Perrin

Know Yourself

A couple of months ago I commented on Eric Wise's post titled Know Your Role , wherein Eric expounded on the need for a DBA on software projects. I took exception to the rule that DBA's are required, which sparked several comments and blog posts...

Published 10-23-2006 11:31 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: Development

Regarding an Agile Backlash

It's coming, as we all knew it would . All in all, I think this is a bit of a shame. I'm not one to speak for others, but I'm sure the "originators" (for want of a better term) of agile processes like Scrum and XP are a little disconcerted...

Published 10-05-2006 7:25 PM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: agile

.NET 2.0 (Almost) a Year Later

Well, according to Wikipedia the 2.0 RTM was released in November of last year (and we all know Wikipedia is always right... Except for last night when I went to the Jaguar page and the only text for the entire article was F**K YOU! ). Anyhow... My point...

Published 09-24-2006 9:35 AM by Jeff Perrin

Filed under: asp.net

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