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I don't want to be a wet blanket, but someone's got to put a stop to the IoC love fest going on out there. An Inversion of Control (IoC) container , for those of you were aren't yet familiar, allows you to retrieve instances of objects at runtime. A relatively common solution to a common...
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I often identify myself as an Agilist. When I first began to use the term, I was met with a great deal of trepidation. I remember the first few times I attended the local user group. “Oh, you’re one of those guys”. This hesitation has diminished considerably, but I still find that there are some interesting...
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I am sure that most of you have heard the term ‘Ivory Tower Architect’ and most of have a mental image of what this means. To me, when I hear the team I think of a person or team of washed up, has been developers who are no longer capable of creating quality code so now they have been relegated...
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I know this may seem like old hat to many, but trust me not all organizations/projects are setup to allow you to easily pull the code from your source repository and compile. I know it is sad, but if you ask me, this is just the tip of the ice burg in terms of what is ultimately wrong with our...
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Part of my job at work is to teach and mentor other developers on our team. Right now I am in the process of teaching two of our developers how to create unit tests (notice I did NOT say integration tests because most anyone can do those). We are also learning how to create our tests by utilizing an...
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Today I posted a comment to one of my other blog posts that read: I forgot about the blue bible of DDD. Since Eric said it, it must be gospel. This comment was in response to another comment about the Eric Evans DDD book. I know that my comment was a bit harsh and will be taken way out of context by...
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Today my iPhone took a crap. I am not real sure what the issue was but all I know is it went to a white screen and I could not do anything about it. I was hoping that simply plugging it into the PC would solve the issue, but it did not. Because I did not know what to do and I did not want to screw around...
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I had a great time at the conference yesterday. I really appreciate everyone who attended our sessions as well as all the positive feedback. For those of you in other cities,Orlando was just the 2nd conference. The rest are still to come . For anyone interested in the materials from our sessions: MapDotNet...
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My daughter is about 6 ½ years old. Her reading skills have blossomed in these last 6 months. It's been an amazing experience as a parent both contributing and merely witnessing her discovery of literacy. Programming is one of my passions, and I like to share my passions. Like watching a sunset,...
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The other day on Twitter Roy Osherove made the statement that he was teaching a class on TDD and he was showing how to use the various Isolation Frameworks. When I read this I had to ask if he talking about Mocking frameworks when he said Isolation frameworks. And indeed he was. As I sat back to reflect...
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I had a couple of requests for my slide deck. It's short and mostly pictures, but here it is . Additionally, the xaml-only font viewer is here . (You might want to do a right-click, save as). The binding example (old way vs. wpf way) is here . I want to thank everyone that came to my presentation...
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Update: With striking proof that I'm dense and a Developer of Little Brain, Andrew points out that the results are sorted by date added. :- P On at least one torrent search site, our book is the #2 item when you search for WPF. Not searching for "WPF book", just "WPF". Rock on...
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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 (notice I am staying away from TDD at this point...
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I'm giving a talk on TDD at our local UG tonight, and under the influence of some recent posts here on devlicio.us, I just finished reworking my presentation. This post is an outline for the first half of my presentation. The Problems Code has entropy. That is over time it deteriorates. At least...
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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 markup for the repeater was 'WOW, that looks like...