If you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. Chronic is a port of Ruby?s Chronic providing some natural language parsing for dates. This is a pretty cool little utility as it lets you take some input like “tomorrow? or […]
Read MoreIf you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. EnumMetadata.Core provides some clean extensions over enums that give you access to metadata you place on enum values. This project?s approach is to use attributes on an Enum and some fancy […]
Read MoreNow that the term “Agile” is sufficiently compromised as to be near meaningless, Agile Software Development is old enough to stand on its own, make its own business case, and demonstrate its value. But it still isn’t a mature adult. Agile Software Development is a hormonally unbalanced pre-teen with ugly spots, occasional outbursts of irrational […]
Read MoreIf you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. VerifyArgs is another approach to a guard helper that takes an interesting approach. Verify.NotNullOrEmpty(new { first, second }); Verify.Positive(new { secondCount }); Many of you might look at the above and […]
Read MoreIf you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. Guard is one of the MANY projects coming out of the netfx project. (HOLY NUGET there?s a ton of these). If you?re not familiar with the netfx project, you should become […]
Read MoreIf you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. NSpec is one of many flavors of BDD framework out there. I?ve never used it, but its website looks good and has some nice documentation and examples. What is your favorite […]
Read MoreIf you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. Stimpack is another project leveraging ReactiveExtensions (RX). It?s based off of ReactiveUI and has some interesting concepts for consideration with a MVVM pattern. This was probably originally added to my To-Research […]
Read MoreA common complaint of the Entity Framework is slow insert times for larger datasets. Last night I was trying to insert a catalog of 15k products and it was taking a very long time (I gave up after 5 minutes). I recalled this post a while back from Mikael Eliasson demonstrating SqlBulkCopy using .NET. I […]
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