After getting a WAV recoding from Pamela as detailed in a previous post, I like to set up a special physical environment for working with a podcast during production, just like I build a workspace structure for working with a Visual Studio project. The structure I have landed on looks something like this: Examining folder […]
Read MoreThis will be a series of tutorial posts on the steps I go through to get an episode of the Elegant Code Cast published. There are 2 reasons I am writing this up: Several other Elegant Coders have volunteered to help produce shows and I want to provide a tutorial. Thank you, guys! I hope […]
Read MoreSometimes it’s useful to be able to store an object somewhere so you can easily access it for the duration of the current request, instead of having to pass it around with every method call that you make. That request could be an ASP.NET request, or a request in your WCF service layer. I used […]
Read MoreWorking with the WPF Ribbon The WPF Ribbon is basically a control that lets you use the Ribbon menu model inside a WPF application. This is a separate download from Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/officeui Yeah, yeah, yeah. ?I don?t like the ribbon". I can hear it already. This is a visual model that a lot of […]
Read MoreOne of my non-technical enjoyments in life is listening to the This American Life podcast, from Public Radio International. It isn’t always my political cup of tea but it is always entertaining. I was catching up on some past shows recently, when I ran across this episode: December 19, 2008: “Ruining it For the Rest […]
Read MoreI been using the DTO / ViewModel approach to encapsulate UI data for approximately 18 months. During that time the resulting DTOs have gradually flattened out as I took the technique to it’s logical extreme. Currently I only expose strings. Originally I was exposing domain objects and / or other primitive types and this was […]
Read MoreLast week i spent some time at work moving some common infrastructure classes which were used in multiple projects into its own little ‘framework’ assembly. This framework basically just provides everything we need to use the Request/Response Service Layer, the KnownTypeProvider, some stuff built on top of NHibernate (the QueryBatcher, Repository and UnitOfWork implementations), our […]
Read MoreI don’t really have any interest in management, but i read a great recommendation for this book recently (forgot the link) so i couldn’t resist ordering it. It consists of two parts. The first 120 pages is a bit of a story about a manager who was just hired to lead one of the departments […]
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