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Don't Be A Slave Of Visual Studio & Don't Workship File System
Understanding what are you working on is the priority #1. If you not sure, then you don't know what are you working on. How do you keep several items linked logically while working on them - you try to keep something common between them. To be more particular, I will bring an example of an application I was exposed to with my team, and show several approaches, including the one I am so against.
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Lambda Expressions
I was looking at anonymous delegates today in .NET 2.0 and thinking how much "syntactical noise" it has and how clean and delicate it is with Lambda expressions. Remember though how it used to be?
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ORM Poll
Looking for some feedback from ASP.NET community - are you using ORM mapping tool and how disconnected your business logic from the persistence during initial development?
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Expectations
This is a non-technical post (contains no code).
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TDD By Sample - Search Criteria
The goal of the application is to allow specifications for search (criteria’s) to be
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Web Application Project Compilation And NAnt
I am working on automated builds for our projects. I am quite excited about it, since it feels like taking back the power over the creation of the code. Not only that, the 'auto-magic' dissolves ones you do it manually and things become simple. You run the script, the script is failing, you need to fix the issue and you want the issue to be simple in order to A) locate it quickly B) fix in the least effort applied.
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Edgile
Combining client-side with server-side, coping with multi-browser support, handling imperfect world of CSS , implementing the code the best way you can relaying on patterns and principles with legacy code kicking around, keeping up with the pace of changing, facing clients that are not ready to pay for the quality, dealing with team mates that are still loyal to procedural code order and married to databases, yet not over-designing is more than just agile. My definition of this is going on the edge with agility in mind. Or just Edgility.
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Excellent Reading
Just finished reading Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# from Robert and Micah
FowlerMartin. A definitely recommended book. Some stuff is not taking advantage of the .NET (not using generics where could do that, Visitor pattern for example. -
Volta
I was following the development on Script# CCC was developing. Sounded like an interesting idea of getting closer .NET and client-side JavaScript. Today found a link to MS experimental project called Volta (hmm, I wonder what will happen if you dare to touch it, same that happens to many experimental projects - a moment of joy and a big shocker at the end? :)
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NAnt And Visual Studio - Reporting From the Field Trip
In my previous blog I was looking how to enable MbUnit with MSBuild from visual studio. As nice as it is, I was missing the flexibility and options of going beyond unit testing only.
