Guest Blogger, Author at ElegantCode

8 Dec

2008

Assembly Partioning Advice

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Patrick Smacchia wrote an excellent post on how you should partition your code in multiple assemblies. Because this is one of those subjects that i’m pretty opinionated about, i figured i’d quickly recap the valid and invalid reasons for creating assemblies that Patrick highlighted. Valid reasons for creating a new assembly: Tier separation: separating the […]

7 Dec

2008

So What’s NHibernate Development Like?

By: Guest Blogger Category:UncategorizedTag: NHibernate:1 Comment

As i mentioned recently, i’m now part of the NHibernate development team. Ever since i posted that i’ve gotten a lot of questions about what exactly it is i do for NHibernate. The short answer is: not much so far! Allow me to elaborate. The way it usually works with Open Source projects is that […]

3 Dec

2008

What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:11 Comments

Most teams have some kind of technical lead in place. They’re often referred to as the ‘dev lead’, or the ‘lead developer’ or the ‘lead programmer’ or whatever. Some people are great fits for this role, and some simply aren’t. Below is my list of what i think makes for a great technical lead. Note: […]

2 Dec

2008

Do Not Litter Your Code With Null Checks

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:6 Comments

Just read the following post on the performance of try/catch and throwing exceptions. In the author’s small (and completely unrepresentative of real-world scenarios) performance tests, it showed that throwing exceptions is a quite costly operation. Ah… if only it were that simple. Throwing an exception is indeed a costly operation, compared to most other statements. […]

2 Dec

2008

Hello Elegant Code Readers

By: Guest Blogger Category:UncategorizedTag: Blogging:3 Comments

As Jarod Ferguson already mentioned, I am now part of the Elegant Code team. I must say it is an honor to be invited to join this community and I am very excited about this opportunity. I will still cross-post on my own blog as well as here on elegantcode.com. I am a pretty easy […]

2 Dec

2008

How Do You Deal With Common Infrastructure Code For Multiple Projects?

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:17 Comments

Here’s the situation: a couple of months ago we started developing according to a new architecture. Obviously, you need infrastructure code for this. For the first project, we just put the infrastructure code into the project’s solution and everything was easy. We could make changes as we needed them, and it enabled us to ‘grow’ […]

1 Dec

2008

First Look At NHibernate Profiler

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Ayende has released his NHibernate Profiler into private beta and i was lucky enough to be able to play around with it. There’s no installer, so it’s just xcopy deployment. I don’t really like installers so the xcopy deployment is actually a plus in my book. I just put the files into an NH-Prof folder […]

28 Nov

2008

Genesis: Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

I just read the following post by Robert C. Martin. In it, he says the following: If you can enumerate the states, and events, then you know the number of paths through the system. So if Given/When/Then statements are truly nothing more than state transitions, all we need to do is enumerate the number of […]