You can either : Write applications using .NET on a mobile device; or Write mobile applications that happens to use .NET. If you do the first one and the application is even moderately complex don’t expect any kind of useful performance. The almost limitless processing power on today’s desktops and servers is very much absent […]
Read MoreSome listeners are reporting download issues for the Elegant Code Cast episodes. Specifically, there are reported incidents of an apparently good download that stops playing midway through the episode. First of all, we apologize profusely for the technical difficulties. Anytime something provides friction like this you are undoubtedly going to vote with your feet and […]
Read MoreI understand that not all teams behave this way at our favorite platform company, but I think it is important to note trends toward goodness. Guess how the priorities for Enterprise Library 5.0 are being determined. By explicitly sharing and opening the backlog, which is a great thing. The transparency of techniques like this genuinely […]
Read MoreI had the opportunity to speak about Test Driven Development at the 2009 Boise Code Camp. There was a great turnout and overall I think the talk went over with great success. The session(s) start from the simple concept of Red-Green-Refactor and ?Why TDD?? and builds to more advanced topics like using a mock framework […]
Read MoreAs you might have guessed from my previous two blog posts, I’ve been experimenting with fluent interfaces lately. I’ve been thinking about passing an expression builder to an aggregate root so that the root entity can use the builder to create a particular child entity. This begs for some code. public class Category : DomainEntity […]
Read MoreI?m sitting here full of pizza listening to a presentation about Live Mesh that?s being given by fellow Elegant Coder Sean Timm who is the author of what is perhaps my favorite EC post (the paragraph entitled ?Sean Timm?s rules of proper switch statement etiquette? is classic). One of the great things about this type […]
Read MoreI just wanted to share this quote that I’ve read while I was skimming through Enterprise Integration Patterns. This paragraph clearly phrases my thoughts about a Shared Database, also because I’ve been confronted with its downsides for quite some time now. One of the biggest difficulties with Shared Database is coming up with a suitable […]
Read MoreAbout a year ago, I wrote a post about Directory Programming with System.DirectoryServices. AccountManagement. I’ve been using the AccountManagement API of the .NET 3.5 framework since then and I still like its simplicity over the raw API of the System.DirectoryServices namespace. Over the past year, however, I’ve encountered one scenario where I was forced to […]
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