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I’m all for doing things in the right order, and I probably should have done that before the last post… but… Anyway, the DDD series has taken on a bit of a life of it’s own – and the numerous posts and comments here have become spread out over many pages, and intermingled with everything else. To try...
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Ya know, I blog partly because I like the sound of my own voice, and partly because I like to try and impart knowledge I have obtained to others. I also like to blog as it helps me formulate ideas and concepts in my own mind, and to have those concepts critiqued by others. This series on DDD was my way...
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I've been playing around with some ideas that I want to drop into a sample application, but I am struggling to find a good domain to base the application in. My problem seems to be around the ISV side of things, as I want to include and show some of the key aspects of DDD, I need a fairly complex...
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Is it always me that gets bizarre errors, or do you all get them and never post it on the Internet? I tried to install VS2008 on my nearly clean Windows 7 install on my 64 bit laptop. I have no idea why, but as VS was starting to install, before the product key, it dropped out with: “A problem has been...
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After some "umming" and "arrring" I decided I needed a new laptop - my 17" Rock is a beast, and rips stuff up, but it is heavy, and noisy. I asked some questions, read a lot of reviews, and decided finally that a MacBook Pro 15" should do the job - it had numerous glowing...
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This whole " lets make TDD easier for the masses " thing is getting out of hand . Unit tests are not technically hard, as Udi points out, what is a test? Anything with TestFixture on it? It is not a technical challenge to write a unit test, any half trained monkey could do it. A few attributes...
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Awww cmon Microsoft, play nice with us. I want to do something that should be pretty simple, I just need to know what action is being wrapped by my custom filter in ASP.NET MVC After a surreal amount of Googling I finally found a blog post that showed where this little bit of information hides, in filterContext...
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Brad Abrams can always be relied upon for a great post - and the latest whizzy thing to come from Microsoft is the Managed Extensibility Framework. I know this is a good thing, because Ayende and Sidar blogged and told me it was. In his simple step by step run through, Brad shows some of the benefits...
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Oren , as he often does, hits the nail bang on with his latest post Cuddling is consider harmful . Development is hard, and getting harder all the time. For every new framework that comes out to simplifying the complexity of the code we write, another two technologies hit the market. For every practice...
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Tao is often referred to as 'the nameless', because neither it nor its principles can ever be adequately expressed in words. It is conceived, for example, with neither shape nor form, as simultaneously perfectly still and constantly moving, as both larger than the largest thing and smaller than...
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Brad Wilson mentioned on the TDD mailing list that the waste and inefficiency within the software industry was akin to the house building industry. I'm sure in some respects he is right, but in a more fundamental way I disagree. An average layman off the street hiring a builder can ask them to build...
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Troy mentioned in a comment on my previous post on ASP.NET MVC and Agile that I must be in a rare company, or I must be a lucky or persuasive man. There is certainly an aspect of truth to both those observations. It is certainly nothing out of the ordinary for me to be brought into projects that are...
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I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure - everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud. What Was Going Wrong? After my initial assessment, I made a quick decision that the major thing holding everyone back was an early decision...
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Alex at Bitter Coder tagged me, so very belatedly (I have been taking some time off from development stuff, so havent found a need to post) ... here goes: How old were you when you first started programming? Around 13 or 14, it was a long time ago and I forget easily. I used to go into shops and program...
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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...