David wrote this post about a month ago where he challenged the usefulness of fluent interfaces. One of his concerns is the discoverability of a fluent API in order to determine what the correct syntax should be. Whenever you’re new to a particular fluent API, it may not always be obvious what the API developer […]
Read MoreI have a card on my family Scrum board (This is not that post. Later for that one.) that repeats each week. It says this: “Pick the Yard.” This is my weekly chore to scoop Butters (the Coding Bulldog) poo. I hate this chore for reasons I am unable to articulate, but hate it I […]
Read MoreI came across this post, which announces the first alpha of 2.1. on the NHibernate Google Group. Someone commented that they were looking forward to the final 2.1 release. Fabio’s reply was so awesome that I am including the text verbatim (emphasis mine): Work with final stable release is a very good practice in a […]
Read MoreProgramming Entity Framework is nearly 800 pages packed full of everything there is to know about EF. The author leaves no stone unturned as she takes you from simplest concepts such as querying & databinding, to more advanced scenarios such as concurrency, N-Tier and using your own Entities with IPoco. The book is chalk full […]
Read MoreI just finished reading JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. I must say that this is a remarkably short book (or remarkably long depending on your view of JavaScript these days). I started the book yesterday, finished today. If you exclude the appendixes, the entire book is about 100 pages. With the appendixes: 150 […]
Read MoreSome of the best reading I do comes from the patterns and practices group at Microsoft. Their prescriptive guidance documents are actually books, and I don?t know that everyone realizes that. It isn?t just p&p that publishes guidance, either. The product teams publish good stuff, too. I used to get real p&p books as swag […]
Read MoreAs if living with the geek wasn’t odd enough, now we’ve got uber nerd boy following directly in his footsteps. This weekend nerd boy handed me a large stack of his T-shirts and told me to get rid of them. The stack was roughly 80% of all the shirts in his drawer. Why was he […]
Read MoreThe crew here at Elegant Code has discussed advertising for a long time now and we have largely dismissed the idea. One big reason for this is a desire to have a degree of confidence that the products advertised are neither intrusive or incompetent. Google Ad-Sense, as an example, was never a real option. Why […]
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