In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we visit with Elegant Coder Chris Brandsma. Chris is a senior developer at Mobile Data Force in Boise, Idaho. Chris provides some great details on subjects ranging from AJAX and RIA separation of concerns to LINQ and Lambda expressions. He also gives us a glimpse of what […]
Read MoreHere is a bit of interesting news out of Microsoft. They have released their first IoC container named Unity. It is out on CodePlex now: http://www.codeplex.com/unity If you are looking for a similar product with a longer lineage, you could look up: StructureMap, Spring.Net, and Castle Windsor. StructureMap is maintained by Jeremy Miller, who is […]
Read MoreThis is the best news I’ve heard yet today (I have a low barrier for that sort of thing anyway). ReSharper 4.0 EAP has been released. http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+Builds Why am I happy with this: ReSharper 4.0 adds support for C# 3.0. (glee!)
Read MoreOn the front page of DotNetKicks is a nice little article on using source control. And I hate it. Not the article itself, it is a nice read actually, very valid. So before you read why I hate it, please check it out. http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/02/I2c-for-one2c-welcome-our-new-revision-control-overlords!.aspx OK, lets start with the basics: Source Control is vitally important […]
Read MoreThere is currently an article up on the CIO magazine web site that I simply must comment on. I often find myself needing to explain and define Agile for executives who have heard some rumor or other about why the developers have unionized. I think Esther Schindler’s article does a nice job of giving that […]
Read MoreOne of the most curious things I encounter when meeting people new to Agile are long time veterans of the software development game who all agree that up-front design doesn’t work and also think Agile is not valuable. See the contradiction? These folks (and I have met many over the years) are quick to point […]
Read MoreI get an amazing amount of pushback to this idea which I see as a perfectly natural chain of logical deduction. Let’s try it, shall we? Specifications are typically written before code as instructions for what the code SHOULD do. Tests, (written before or after the code), are a set of instructions detailing what the […]
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