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Wise Manager Words
The task then is to refine the code base to better meet customer needs. If that is not clear, the programmers should not write a line of code. Every line of code costs money to write and more money to support. It is better for the developers to be surfing than writing code that won’t be needed. If they write code that ultimately is not used, I will be paying for that code for the life of the system, which is typically longer than my professional life. If they went surfing, they would have fun, and I would have a less expensive system and fewer headaches to maintain.
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NHibernate SessionFactory Lesson
Anyone who worked with NHibernate knows that SessionFactory is an expensive object, that better to be constructed once, cached and re-used to build lightweight and disposable NHibernate sessions. It’s always shows up as a warning in books (NHibernate in Action, page 35), WIKIs, blogs, etc.
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Building a Dream Team
The company I work for, Cortex Business Solutions, is in the hiring mode again. We are looking for passionate developers (Terry has worded the requirements in his post already, so I will keep it DRY).
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Free Typemock licenses – Real Deal
Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.
Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. -
Domain Object and Contracts – The End
In my previous blog about domain objects and contracts for those, I have described the situation where the team was thinking in a different way than myself, and what we tried. I have never blogged back about the fact that the team got convinced that this is not a good practice, and long time ago we stopped doing that. Today I spotted a blog post from James Gregory where he names it properly “an anti-pattern”. That’s what it is. End of the story.
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Hudson – Task Scanner Plugin
Seeing is believing. I was looking for a Hudson plugins that would allow me to present any TODOs left in the code. And as usual, found it (love that!). Static Code Analysis Plugins are useful when you need that type of information. In particular, I am talking about Task Scanner Plugin. The snapshot will tell everything.
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DD vs. DD – The End
I had an old post, back in July 2008, where I had a few comments on Data Driven vs. Domain Driven applications. It will be almost a year soon since that post, and I have definitely learned a lot since then. One thing I learned for sure, is to pick your the battles. You cannot fight a developer who knows data driven applications since day one and nothing else, that domain driven applications are not necessarily more ‘efficient’, but more maintainable, allow better link between domain concept and software, allow change, pass the reality tests when change in business is coming. It’s the same as trying to convince someone who spent 2/3 of his career without testing and sees no value in it, suddenly to start TDD or even ‘worse’, BDD. Why to bother? I know my stuff well, don’t I? Look, XX years in the industry are not wasted. No, they are invested with a little ROI. But these are religious wars. Useless. Therefore I am off the topic, and just learning, exploring, and implementing things I see the right way at the given moment. Once you concentrate on doing that rather than chasing ghosts to convince, you realize what is right and what is wrong, without a need in side-kicks.
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CategoryAttribute
Anyone who's doing TDD is familiar with the CategoryAttribute coming with the most of frameworks. Today (I am surprised it took us so long!) we got read of
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xUnit Test Patterns - The Book
I have a deep respect to people writing books. Not only it's a commitment, but a hard work that may not be appreciated, despite all the efforts invested into creation of a such. Saying that, some books are just not as good as the hype around them. Unfortunately, I found "xUnit Test Patterns" by Gerard Meszaros not very pleasant for reading...