Krzysztof Kozmic

What's new in Windsor 3: Container debugger diagnostics improvements

As we're nearing the release date of Castle Windsor 3.0 (codename Wawel) I will be blogging about some of the new features and improvements introduced in the new version. In the previous post I introduced one new diagnostic, and in this post we’ll...

Published 04-25-2011 1:56 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Castle

What's new in Windsor 3: Service Locator usage detection

As we're nearing the release date of Castle Windsor 3.0 (codename Wawel) I will be blogging about some of the new features and improvements introduced in the new version. One of the features that were introduced in current version 2.5 was support...

Published 04-24-2011 11:41 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Castle

Working with NHibernate without default constructors

In the previous post we established that the usage of default constructor required by NHibernate is theoretically not required. The fact that NHibernate does use them though has to do with technical limitations of CLR. Turns out in most cases there is...

Published 03-20-2011 7:58 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: NHibernate

NHibernate and default constructors

One of the first things you learn about NHibernate is that in order for it to be able construct your instances and take advantage of lazy loading every persistent class must have the default, parameterless constructor. This leads to having entities looking...

Published 03-19-2011 10:48 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: NHibernate

Testing conventions

I already blogged about the topic of validating conventions in the past ( here and here ). Doing this has been a fantastic way of keeping consistency across codebases I’ve worked on, and several of my colleagues at Readify adopted this approach...

Published 03-09-2011 4:52 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Design

Tests and issue trackers – how to manage the integration

In highly disciplined teams when a bug is discovered the following happens: test (or most likely a set of tests) is written that fails exposing the bug a ticket in issue tracking system is created a developer fixes the bug, runs all the tests including...

Published 03-01-2011 5:54 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Unit tests are overrated

Something is rotten in the state of Development. It seems to me we (developers) either ignore testing altogether, leaving it to the Q&A team when we throw them the app over the wall, or we concentrate on unit tests only. Let me make one thing clear...

Published 02-28-2011 10:00 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Design

Tests are your airbag

Good battery of tests is like good wine. You will not understand its value until you’ve experienced it. There’s few things as liberating in software development as knowing you can refactor fearlessly having confidence your tests will catch...

Published 02-27-2011 12:22 PM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Talking Shop Down Under podcast about Windsor

Not too long ago Richard Banks was kind enough to have me on his podcast – Talking Shop Down Under . We chatted a little bit about Windsor, including what we’re working on for the next version. If you have spare 30-something minutes head over to the link...

Published 02-21-2011 2:17 PM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Git tooling for .NET developers

Many developers working on Windows stay away from Git. There are many reasons for this but from my observations and discussions I’ve had, the most common can be summarized by this tweet by my friend Paul Stovell: I’m not getting into holy...

Published 01-26-2011 6:26 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

How to make sharing code between .NET and Silverlight (a little) less painful

Windsor ships for both .NET and Silverlight. However working with the codebase in such a way that we can target both runtimes at the same time with the least amount of friction possible proved to be quite a challenge. Problem We’re using single...

Published 11-16-2010 11:18 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Framework Tips

Castle Windsor/Core 2.5.2

Today we released second bugfix release for Windsor 2.5 and for Core 2.5 (incl. DynamicProxy, which is what probably is the most interesting to people). This time there are no new features, only fixes to issues identified since the last release (you can...

Published 11-15-2010 12:56 PM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Castle

To IntelliSense or not to IntelliSense, is that even a question?

UPDATE (tl;dr version): As it appears people seem not to read the post before commenting. I’m not questioning Intellisense’s value. I’m questioning why .NET developers get panic attack when someone mentions “let’s use X” where there’s no IntelliSense...

Published 10-24-2010 2:51 AM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Thoughts

Point point one release for Windsor and Castle.Core

Exactly one month after release 2.5.0 we released first minor update to this release for Windsor and Castle.Core. It contains some minor improvements and fixes for issues that were identified after the 2.5 release. Complete changelog for Windsor contains...

Published 09-21-2010 1:23 PM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: Castle, IoC

My Visual Studio (with ReSharper) color settings

That’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for quite a long time, yet I never got around to really doing it. Now, here it is – my Visual Studio color theme and it looks like this: The theme works with Visual Studio 2010 and requires Resharper...

Published 09-06-2010 12:55 PM by Krzysztof Koźmic

Filed under: .NET

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What's new in Windsor 3: Container debugger diagnostics improvements

What's new in Windsor 3: Service Locator usage detection

Working with NHibernate without default constructors

NHibernate and default constructors

Testing conventions

Tests and issue trackers – how to manage the integration

Unit tests are overrated

Tests are your airbag

Talking Shop Down Under podcast about Windsor

Git tooling for .NET developers

How to make sharing code between .NET and Silverlight (a little) less painful

Castle Windsor/Core 2.5.2

To IntelliSense or not to IntelliSense, is that even a question?

Point point one release for Windsor and Castle.Core

My Visual Studio (with ReSharper) color settings