Today a conversation sparked off on Twitter, started by Jimmy Bogard and Matt Hinze , and then carried on by myself and Glenn Block . The basic starting point was what the difference was between using an IoC container like Windsor or StructureMap and using MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework ) I...
Codai's IT Samurai School is open for enrollment. It's Flash, so it'll take a few moments to download...but I hope you'll agree it's worth the wait... http://www.itsamuraischool.com A few fun facts about the website and the school itself: Born our of a short conversation at a BBQ...
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There are many ways you can commit commercial suicide, but there is possibly no slower and more agonising death than that produced by attempting that great architectural objective, the single authoritative database to which all applications talk. The theory is good, if we have a single database then...
As if my life wasn't boring enough trying to get S#arp Architecture 1.0 out the door...
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You may have missed the release of Oxite recently, and some of the hype and comments around it. Having now seen some absolutely ludicrous comments on the web chiming in about how good it is, I feel compelled to write my own short appraisal. Lets start with some of the hype by the Oxite team about their...
Instead of repeating amongst us why the Entity Framework concerns us, an open letter has been written to hopefully persuade Microsoft to reconsider the Entity Framework, or at least some major aspects of it. To save me repeating it, here is what Dave Laribee said: A number of people have worked on an...
If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is a little late in being published...but it's worth it!) Now on to challenge 2... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! I'm excited about this week's challenge and am sure it'll be interesting and...