Today I spent some time (thank God no more than 15 minutes) tracking down a WCF issue from hell. Every time I made a call to the service I got the following exception: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException : The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. This is really helpful, isn’t it? Fortunately there is some […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, I managed to convince our very wise decision makers to start using NHibernate for our persistence layer. My team mate on the project describes how it went. While I was reading Jeremy’s train of thoughts, the following four lines made me realize we did the right thing: Why are teams still writing […]
Read MoreTo me this seems like an interesting way to learn about design patterns (watch the video). I wonder if it also works when I hit an ivory-tower architect with POEAA or DDD? I’ll keep you posted. PS: I’m really looking forward to the next episode on code reviews and retrospectives.
Read MoreI finally managed to convince my colleague and partner in crime Patrick De Boeck to start blogging. Patrick is an external consultant and one of the members of the team I’m working with on a security project. Besides that, he’s a very smart guy. Warm up your feed reader and subscribe to his blog.
Read MoreLast year, I blogged about Test Data Builders here and here. I still use them heavily in my unit tests for creating objects with test data. Heck, I also use this pattern for fluent interfaces in production code. Here is a simple example of this approach: 1: public class CustomerBuilder 2: { 3: public […]
Read MoreI think I’m going to be brief about this one. Everything you ever heard or read about this book is true. If you don’t have this book already, then go get it right now because you are missing out on a lot of essential stuff. Although most of its content has been scattered around in […]
Read MoreThe first alpha version of NHibernate 2.0 has been released some time ago. Oren has put a nice overview of the new features and the bugs that are solved for this first drop. In spite the fact that they put the word ‘alpha’ in the version name, it is actually RTM quality! One of the […]
Read MoreMan, I really want this book! I’ve added it to my ever-growing book list.
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