Scott Hanselman's recent post about the Daily Source Code 14 - Fluent Interface Edition got me to think more on fluent interfaces and a previous post of mine on ObjectMother versus Test Data Builders . Also, it comes to mind in regards to DSLs, both internal and external that has me intrigued. Partially...

Update: Fixed code changed from CTP and More in the series: IoC Containers, Unity and ObjectBuilder2 - The Saga Continues IoC Container, Unity and Breaking Changes Galore After the reaction of my last post of talking about IoC and the Unity Application Block , I thought I'd include a few more samples...

The Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 from 6:30PM-9:00PM. This month, they'll be having a pretty interesting topic on refactoring in C# with Jonathan Cogley . I've had my refactoring and agile boots on lately, so I can definitely relate...

Update: IoC and Unity - The Basics and Interception As Grigori Melnik noted on my blog previously as well as his own , there was a brand new drop of the Unity Application Block as of March 4th . This by far was a huge update with a lot of breaking changes. That teaches me to use a CTP of any product...

Update: Fixed code changed from CTP and More in the series: IoC and Unity - The Basics and Interception IoC Container, Unity and Breaking Changes Galore I just wanted to revisit the whole Unity Application Block just once more to look at a few more things including handling parameters, instances and...

UPDATE: More posts on the subject xUnit.net RC3 Just Released Earlier this week, I wrote about the latest release of xUnit.net RC2. Since that time, Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk released a new version to fix some of the issues with regards to TestDriven.NET integration and ASP.NET MVC integration. You...

In one of my previous posts about Command-Query Separation (CQS) and side effecting functions being code smells, it was pointed out to me again about immutable builders. For the most part, this has been one area of CQS that I've been willing to let break. I've been following Martin Fowler's advice on...

I decided to stay on the Design by Contract side for just a little bit. Recently, Raymond Chen posted "If you pass invalid parameters, then all bets are off" in which he goes into parameter validation and basic defensive programming. Many of the conversations had on the blog take me back to my C++ and...

As I've covered earlier , I'm very interested in the unit testing and behavior testing story in F# and functional programming. And as I've indicated earlier, I'm pretty fascinated by Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) as well in this regard. In the past, I've posted about some of the interesting things...

Over the past couple of months, I've been working on some language oriented programming concepts in F# to prove how Domain Specific Languages could work. This coincided with my lofty goals of working towards more Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks and expressiveness that I think is needed to...