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Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson
Several days ago it finally arrived: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson! It's Jimmy's latest book and it's great. Well, 'great' is not really the word, it's more a matter of Must Have, it's that good.
It's perhaps a bit strange, to hear from me that a DDD/TDD book, which this is, is a Must Have, but let me explain: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns, is not a book which is written by someone who writes books for a living. It's a book written by someone who writes software for a living. This makes the book so great, because it applies DDD and TDD in a very practical way, as you would do too, explained to you by a master in this field. This means it also discusses potential problems with some aspects of DDD and TDD, how to avoid them or how to deal with them, like you would have to do as well. Simply put: a must have book for software engineers who have to write code, create beautiful software for a living, for software engineers who have to face todays problems when creating software!
Jimmy is a great writer and good teacher too. I find that essential in a book: does the author know what s/he's talking about, is s/he a true bore or is the material taught in a comfortable way? I think Jimmy hit the sweet spot with this book: before you know it you've read several chapters and you've at the same time learned a lot. The style is also nice, it's as if Jimmy sits next to you talking to you, discussing the topics of the book while you're listening and learning. -
Jeroen vd Bos on Why Visual Studio should be part of Windows
My best friend Jeroen van den Bos has just posted a great article about why Visual Studio should be part of Windows. Jeroen and I share a long history together and as we're both ex-demosceners, I fully understand his reasoning and I wholeheartly agree with his point: make Visual Studio.NET Express part of Windows Vista.
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Microsoft ProductFeedback... why bother?
Sorry for the second rant posting today, but I'm so fed up with this. Microsoft started with a product feedback site when VS.NET 2005 was in beta, and it was received with great enthousiasm, me included. However, I currently have the feeling it's been abandoned, or has been 'evolved' into a site where people can log bugs but they'll almost never result in a bugfix.
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What!? .NET 2.0 SP1 in 2007? Unacceptable!
George asks about SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0... Again the details have not been 100% worked out, so don’t take this as an official statement, but I expect SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0 to be at the same time as Orcas .NET Framework ships.
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Jon Skeet on the 7 deadly sins of Software Development
Jon Skeet, a C# MVP I greatly respect, has written a great article about The 7 Deadly Sins of Software Development. I personally think every software engineer should simply read it and better: should use the knowledge inside the article in their work next week and beyond!
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LLBLGen Pro v2.0 with ASP.NET 2.0
Recently, Scott Guthrie blogged about using DLinq with ASP.NET. I read the interesting article and thought... that must be possible today, with code using normal .NET 2.0! So, I started LLBLGen Pro v2.0 (V2 is currently in beta) and yes, I was able to do everything Scott showed in his article, with very little effort.
The steps I took are described below.
I've to add, LLBLGen Pro v2.0 is currently in beta, so similar to DLinq, it's not yet available in final form, though we hope to release v2.0 of LLBLGen Pro later this month. The beta is open for our customers. The current version of LLBLGen Pro is v1.0.2005.1.
Ok, so let's get to work! -
Sahil wants YOU for his ADO.NET boot camp
Normally I don't p1mp blogposts of others here, but for my good friend Sahil Malik I'm happy to make an exception
. Sahil will be your instructor for everything ADO.NET 2.0 at the ADO.NET 2.0 boot camp. Read more at his blog.