Working with the WPF Ribbon The WPF Ribbon is basically a control that lets you use the Ribbon menu model inside a WPF application. This is a separate download from Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/officeui Yeah, yeah, yeah. ?I don?t like the ribbon". I can hear it already. This is a visual model that a lot of […]
Read MoreOne of my non-technical enjoyments in life is listening to the This American Life podcast, from Public Radio International. It isn’t always my political cup of tea but it is always entertaining. I was catching up on some past shows recently, when I ran across this episode: December 19, 2008: “Ruining it For the Rest […]
Read MoreSince we are talking about ethics in software right now, I’d thought I’d throw one or two out there. First and foremost: please let me know if you think I’m wrong. My only request is this: tell me why — in as much detail as you can muster. Truth is, I want to be proven […]
Read MoreI been using the DTO / ViewModel approach to encapsulate UI data for approximately 18 months. During that time the resulting DTOs have gradually flattened out as I took the technique to it’s logical extreme. Currently I only expose strings. Originally I was exposing domain objects and / or other primitive types and this was […]
Read MoreLast week i spent some time at work moving some common infrastructure classes which were used in multiple projects into its own little ‘framework’ assembly. This framework basically just provides everything we need to use the Request/Response Service Layer, the KnownTypeProvider, some stuff built on top of NHibernate (the QueryBatcher, Repository and UnitOfWork implementations), our […]
Read MoreMy fellow Elegant Coder Jan Van Ryswyck wrote about Craftmanship Over Crap. I generally agree with his point of view. Writing good, clean code is tremendously important for the long term survival chances of any software project. But i also believe that we sometimes need to be a bit more pragmatic about how we solve […]
Read MoreI don’t really have any interest in management, but i read a great recommendation for this book recently (forgot the link) so i couldn’t resist ordering it. It consists of two parts. The first 120 pages is a bit of a story about a manager who was just hired to lead one of the departments […]
Read MoreRobert C. Martin calls ‘Craftsmanship over Crap’ the fifth principle of the agile manifesto. I’ve been writing a lot on this blog about writing clean code and qualities that every piece of code should have. Besides writing clean code, we as software professionals should also adhere to a number of qualities as well: We shall […]
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