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The Dangers of Hammers (or, Why SRP Isn’t Dangerous)
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:28 PM

If you haven’t noticed, David Cooksey and I are having a bit of a back-and-forth about the Single Responsibility Principle and its use (or misuse) in software development. And I’m obviously not here to talk about the dangers of hammers. But as David Cooksey has come up with another example of how SRP (the Single Responsibility Principle) is dangerous when completely... Read More...

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Filed under: Cooking School (Architecture and Lifecycle), General Software Development, Refactoring, SOLID

My EntLib presentation to the Cincinnati .Net users' group meeting is TONIGHT (2/15) at 6
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:09 PM

If you happen to live in the Cincinnati area and read my blog - I'm giving a presentation on Enterprise Library tonight at the Cincinnati .Net Users Group - see their site for directions. The presentation will start at 6pm and last until around 7. I hope to see you there! Doug Read More...

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Filed under: Appetizers (.Net CF), Cooking School (Architecture and Lifecycle), Desert (Other Stuff), Main Courses (.Net)

Enterprise Library Configuration (Part 1/2): Customized Appsettings and the EntLib Configuration Manager tool.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:30 PM

So I've finally gotten comfortable enough with the configuration management tool to post some examples. I'll be doing a 2-part series on the Enterprise Library configuration framework and how you can incorporate your own application configuration into the tool and also customize the configuration offered by your custom frameworks. I'd also like to point out the... Read More...

by drohrer | 8 comment(s)

Filed under: Cooking School (Architecture and Lifecycle), Main Courses (.Net)

EntLib is released!
Friday, January 28, 2005 9:08 PM

For those of you who have been following the development of Enterprise Library, it has been released. Now, go forth and download. The first in my series of EntLib presentations will be on creating extensions to Enterprise Libary that plug in to the configuration manager, and I hope to have it up in the next few days, so stay tuned! Read More...

by drohrer | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Cooking School (Architecture and Lifecycle)

Enterprise Library presentation at Cincinnati .Net Users Group
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:37 PM

After a very long hiatus, I've returned to the blogging world with a bang. As my good friend James pointed out , I'll be giving a presentation on Enterprise Library, Microsoft's new consolidated application blocks, on February 15th at the Cincinnati .Net Users Group . Once EntLib goes gold (this Friday, no less) I'm going to do a series of posts discussing its... Read More...

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Filed under: Cooking School (Architecture and Lifecycle), Main Courses (.Net)