Jason again. Over the past week, while most people have been enjoying some hard earned time off, I’ve been working…a lot. Joining me in my efforts have been fellow Elegant Coder Chris and Priyesh. The nature of the projects that we undertake here can make it difficult to apply some key development principles. A particularly […]
Read MoreI’m just in time for my 100th blog post for this year. As I mentioned last year, I think this is my absolute ceiling when it comes to writing blog posts, but you’ll never know. My kids are growing up, so maybe I’m going to get more time on my hands next year. Who knows? […]
Read MoreI’m really looking forward to the next Dutch ALT.NET meeting where Yves Goeleven will discuss DDD practices while having a look at a real production application. I think we’ll have some great discussions. The meeting will be held on January 27th in Mechelen from 18:00 till 21:00. Drop by if you are in the neighborhood […]
Read MoreWhen using Visual Studio 2008, it is possible to use most of the new language additions of C# 3.0 in a .NET 2.0 project. This because the C# 3.0 compiler is used for both .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 as well as for .NET 3.5 projects in Visual Studio. This means that local variable inference, object […]
Read MoreI’ve been reading a lot of code lately. When I’m doing this, I find it very important to have some unit tests that makes it easier for me to comprehend the actual production code. In order to do that the unit tests have to very readable. Something that I see quite a lot in the […]
Read MoreNicholas Blumhardt (MEF/Autofac) has started a series of posts on Container-Managed Application Design where he talks about how IoC containers should fit into an application architecture. I like the delivery of the post in how it focuses on the ‘Mental Models’ most of us have formed about how an IoC container should work, and the […]
Read MoreWeb development in the .NET world has gotten a lot more interesting in the last couple of years. A few years ago, the only choice we had for a web front-end was ASP.NET WebForms. Nowadays you can add ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight to the mix. Obviously each option has its pro’s and con’s, so it’s […]
Read MoreChris Brandsma recently wrote an insightful post about how we shouldn’t coddle junior developers. It’s a good post and i can definitely understand Chris’ frustrations on the matter. There’s just one thing i don’t understand though: why do we even differentiate between junior and senior developers? First of all, what’s the difference between a senior […]
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