Nicholas Blumhardt (MEF/Autofac) has started a series of posts on Container-Managed Application Design where he talks about how IoC containers should fit into an application architecture. I like the delivery of the post in how it focuses on the ‘Mental Models’ most of us have formed about how an IoC container should work, and the […]
Read MoreWeb development in the .NET world has gotten a lot more interesting in the last couple of years. A few years ago, the only choice we had for a web front-end was ASP.NET WebForms. Nowadays you can add ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight to the mix. Obviously each option has its pro’s and con’s, so it’s […]
Read MoreChris Brandsma recently wrote an insightful post about how we shouldn’t coddle junior developers. It’s a good post and i can definitely understand Chris’ frustrations on the matter. There’s just one thing i don’t understand though: why do we even differentiate between junior and senior developers? First of all, what’s the difference between a senior […]
Read MoreEver noticed how Visual Studio can be painfully slow when it comes to working with big solutions? It starts using large amounts of RAM, building the project takes way too long, and with practically every change you make it has to rebuild a lot of the projects in the solution which can waste a tremendous […]
Read MoreThis is a rant. Not an angry rant, not bemused, or disappointed. This is just a rant. This is a rant against all of the people who say: “Don’t do that, the junior developers will never understand it”. For this rant I’m looking at my own current and former managers, friends of mine, Billy Hollis, […]
Read MoreI’m always teasing the geek for looking like a doofus with his phone clipped to his belt. It’s sort of the modern day version of a pocket protector. A phone clipped to the belt ups the geek factor exponentially. The handiness of the phone on the belt was proven to me today. It all became […]
Read MoreIn the 2005 movie, Kinky Boots, shoe maker and factory owner Charles Price visits one of his customers who has begun buying fewer shoes. Shoe Store Owner: "Look at these shoes I can get from Taiwan. They are 1/2 the price I pay for your shoes and I can sell them for the same price." […]
Read MoreI recently had to go through the process of installing Visual Studio 2008 with a team getting ready to use Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. Further, I have been tinkering with Silverlight 2 recently and this has even more tooling around it. Based on this experience, I thought I would outline the […]
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