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Adding variable output behavior to your FubuMVC actions

Introduction A question I’ve received multiple times now when discussing FubuMVC ’s flexibility: can I make a single controller action render a view, or json, or rss/xml, etc., based on a request header, or some portion of the URL? The short answer is...

Posted to Joshua Flanagan by Joshua Flanagan on 02-07-2010

Filed under: fubumvc
More Dogs and Bears and Chickens and Things: Invite your colleagues to Pablo's Fiesta

If you work with developers who are women, please tell them about the Los Techies Open Space conference , coming up at the end of February. If you've attended an event like this in the past, you're already aware of some facts: The Austin developer community...

Posted to Girl Writes Code (Sharon Cichelli) by Sharon J. Cichelli on 02-07-2010
Using ROI As A Constraint, Not An End In Itself

I had a fun conversation over instant messenger yesterday. The original subject matter revolved around a problem that the other person was having and how that problem was consuming a number of minutes per day with repetitive, tedious work. At the start...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 02-06-2010

Filed under: Philosophy of Software, Management, Metrics, Coaching, Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers

I have created enough simple projects using ASP.NET MVC with unit tests to notice a very helpful pattern. The following is a sample of a test fixture using RhinoMocks and NUnit to test a controller. 1: [TestFixture] 2: public class AdminControllerTests...

Posted to Chris Missal by Chris Missal on 02-05-2010

Filed under: DRY, Development, ASP.NET MVC, Moq, RhinoMocks, NUnit
Pair Programming with Screen

I’ve decided, once again, to make the jump back to VIM full-time. It will help my bash-fu become stronger and also ensure that I can pair program with any other dev. TextMate is awesome for personal development, but using NERDTree ( example ) and...

Posted to Jason Meridth by Jason Meridth on 02-04-2010

Filed under: Pair Programming
Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts?

I was thinking about target conditions and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle earlier today when a code related issue that I was having popped into head and decided to meld with the current string of thoughts. The resulting thought was leading me toward...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 02-03-2010

Filed under: Community, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Standardized Work, Lean Systems, Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
Strengthening your domain: a primer

Recently, I talked some about the idea of an intentionally anemic domain model, under the name of “ Persistence Model ”. While a Persistence Model is great for a large percentage of projects, you may eventually want to move more behavior into the...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard by bogardj on 02-03-2010

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design
Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches

Anyone that follow me on twitter likely knows that I’m a big fan of Git these days. I’ll spare you the gushing heart felt nausea of how it’s so awesome and skip right to the point, though: I don’t always have the luxury of being able to use Git...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 02-03-2010

Filed under: Git, Subversion, Branch-Per-Feature, Source Control
Thinking about sessions for Pablo’s Fiesta

We’ve been head’s down at Dovetail, so I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about Pablo’s Fiesta (shame!). I’ve come up for air recently and I’m starting to get excited about it again. Pablo’s Fiesta will be an “ Open Spaces ” conference...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog by chadmyers on 02-03-2010

Filed under: FubuMVC, Fiesta
How I Approach a Defect

Lately I've been tracking some of the steps I go through in a given day or week. I was fixing a bug the other day when I decided that I should write down all the mental notes I refer to when addressing a problem like a bug in code. These are questions...

Posted to Chris Missal by Chris Missal on 02-02-2010

Filed under: Testing, Best Practices, Development, Continuous Improvement
Are We Continuously Improving Or Just Continuously Changing?

Don’t confuse activity – even when it has a visible, measurable effect – with productivity. Without a clear picture of where we are going and why, our best efforts at improvement (though they may be ‘continuous’ efforts) are likely to be change for the...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 02-01-2010

Filed under: Management, Lean Systems, Productivity, Coaching, Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
AutoMapper 1.0 RTW

AutoMapper is now officially 1.0. You can go grab the latest binaries here: AutoMapper 1.0 RTW Here are the release notes: New Features Changing the null substitute method name and allow any type of null substitute Consolidating custom constructor...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard by bogardj on 02-01-2010

Filed under: AutoMapper
“The purpose of kanban is to eliminate the kanban”

I found the quote that title’s this blog post in Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata book – the origin is simply stated as “a Toyota person”. Kanban: We’re Doing It Wrong The title quote plays hand in hand with a quote from The Toyota Way : “kanban is something...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 01-30-2010

Filed under: Management, Kanban, Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
Implementing Domain Queries

My current Repository interface looks something like this: public interface IRepository { T FindOne<T>( int id); T FindBy<T>(Expression<Func<T, bool >> expression); IEnumerable<T> FindAllBy<T>(Expression<Func<T...

Posted to John Teague's Blog by jcteague on 01-30-2010

Filed under: NHibernate, DDD, linq
Brown Bag It To Pablo’s Fiesta

Thanks to the generous folks, at St. Edwards PEC, the only real cost to organizing our Open Space conference is providing food. This what the $15 registration fee is covering: food, drinks and snacks. It’s important to us that whoever wants to attend...

Posted to John Teague's Blog by jcteague on 01-29-2010