I am writing this now as the end of the year approaches as I am sure that by the end of 2007 the web framework landscape will have changed again. Only a few years ago a web developer had Perl\CGI then along came ColdFusion, ASP and PHP. Until recently that's the way it was for web developers and...

This is one of the posts where I should be going to bed rather than starting this but I just won't sleep if I don't post it. I was going over the comments in Ayende's post on Castle Igloo and noticed someone had posted this. "Communication between a view and its associated controller...

This is one of the posts where I should be going to bed rather than starting this but I just won't sleep if I don't post it. I was going over the comments in Ayende's post on Castle Igloo and noticed someone had posted this. "Communication between a view and its associated controller...

I am writing this now as the end of the year approaches as I am sure that by the end of 2007 the web framework landscape will have changed again. Only a few years ago a web developer had Perl\CGI then along came ColdFusion, ASP and PHP. Until recently that's the way it was for web developers and...

In pattern terms there will be a few patterns for visual interface layering that you heard of, MVC, MVP, Humble Dialog etc. I was talking with Howard one night and he mentioned his interest in a MVP variant called Presenter First. This variant incrases the layering of MVP triads in the pattern and brings...

Lately I've been drafting posts on my daily commute and post them up in batches (just in case you were wondering :). I recall an article (not sure where I read it) about Ron Jeffries and his ability as an 'alpha architect'. Such people are rare, the design they have mostly in their mind with TDD providing...

This question seems to get asked a lot, this recent article on codeproject does a decent job of explanation as well as this article from Infragistics Guidisan Todd Snyder . If I was sum it up very simply, the different is entry point into the pattern. In MVC the entry point is the controller, if you...