10 Mar
2008

The Role of Architects and Architecture

I was thrilled to participate in a Fish Bowl facilitated by Scott Hanselman this weekend at Boise Code Camp. The session quickly and predictably degenerated into a Architecture vs. Design discussion, which is a little frustrating because there are higher level discussions that are actually important. One higher level discussion is: What is expected of […]

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27 Feb
2008

Be Careful of Your Passion

Many developers categorize themselves when describing their areas of passion or specialty. Often this sounds like, “I’m a data guy,” or “I like middleware.” Occasionally you hear a passion for user experience or UI expressed as, “I like making GUIs.” Most of us got into this business because we liked making computers do things we […]

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18 Feb
2008

Code Cast 3 – Chris Brandsma

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 […]

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17 Feb
2008

Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library

Here 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 […]

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16 Jan
2008

MVC at Boise NetDug Tomorrow Night

Anyone in the Boise area can come out and get a taste of the new ASP.Net MVC framework from Microsoft. I will be doing an hour or so on the MVC framework at the local .Net users group. Following the MVC talk, Martin Danner will be doing an hour or so on the fresh new […]

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6 Dec
2007

4 Maddening Overloaded Technology Terms

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For at least a day I completely failed to communicate with my office mate because we couldn’t get past some stupid vocabulary words. The battle of who owns the naming conventions on a technology can be very irritating. Just look at Inversion of Control vs. Dependency Injection for an example. Here’s what I got hung […]

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