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Composition versus Inheritance

One score (minus five) years ago, in the age of yore and of our programming forefathers, there was written a little book. A seminal book. A book that would change things. That book was called Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 8:23 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Principles, Advice, composition

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...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 11:59 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: FubuMVC, Fiesta

FubuMVC Diagnostics

This post is about the FubuMVC framework. For more info on getting started, click the previous link, or view the Getting started wiki page . FubuMVC’s configuration model is a semantic model that is built up by an API. This allows great flexibility...

Published Sun, Jan 24 2010 5:07 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: FubuMVC

FubuMVC has moved to GitHub

FYI, if you’re looking at FubuMVC, you should be advised that the new home for the FubuMVC source is now at GitHub . I have cleared the SVN /trunk and /branches/reboot repositories over at the old GoogleCode site . If you currently have an app using the...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 11:10 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: FubuMVC

Announcing FubuMVC

A Little Background I have been relatively quiet about FubuMVC for some time (only briefly mentioning it in passing on this blog). It has been a project that has been fermenting for some time with a slow start. Now it is picking up pace and...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 11:36 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: FubuMVC

Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space Conference

In case you didn’t see it on the main Los Techies feed, John Teague and fellow Los Techian announced “Pablo’s Fiesta” , Los Techies’ first Open Space conference. The sign-up page is here for more information: http://fiesta.lostechies.com/ John Teague...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 10:51 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: Fiesta

“Productization”

I need some ‘wisdom of the crowd’ here. I’m guessing just about ever single one of you (at least the software developer types) reading this have deployed software to a production environment at least once in your career. One of the products we’re working...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 12:37 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Advice, Deployment

Dovetail is Hiring a Junior-to-Mid-level .NET Developer

Come work for one of the most progressive development shops in the US. This is an opportunity to work with some of the leaders in the .NET/C# space including Jeremy Miller and Joshua Flanagan – both senior developers, designers, architects, authors, and...

Published Fri, Sep 18 2009 12:26 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Austin, Dovetail, Hiring

Chad’s Comment-worthiness Ranking Scale

I try to be fair to commenters and give them a say, even if they’re belligerent and obnoxious as long as their making good points or otherwise contributing to the thread (even if they’re disagreeing with me). However, every now and then a comment comes...

Published Mon, Aug 31 2009 10:15 PM by chadmyers

Is Blogging Dead?

The other day I was at lunch with some folks (I won’t name drop except to give credit for the person who originally brought it up: Jeremy ), and he commented that, while is number of RSS subscriptions has actually increased, the volume of daily unread...

Published Mon, Aug 31 2009 9:54 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc, Twitter die die die

The usual result of Poor Man’s Dependency Injection

Alternate Title: An IoC Container is a Rich Man’s Factory Pattern Implementation I ruffled some feathers with my last post on Poor Man’s Dependency Injection (PDMI), so please allow me to clarify further. The natural progression of using PMDI is this...

Published Tue, Jul 14 2009 2:41 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Advice, IoC

Just say no to 'Poor Man’s Dependency Injection’.

For background, Jimmy Bogard originally posted about the ‘poor man’s dependency injection’ style used in NerdDinner. Not to single out NerdDinner, because there are lots of apps out there doing this. NerdDinner just happened to be the most recent and...

Published Tue, Jul 14 2009 10:53 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: StructureMap, IoC

VAN is a friend of Pablo’s!

In case you haven’t noticed, the VAN logo now appears in our “Friends of Pablo” section. VAN is really taking off! If you have checked out VAN (Virtual ALT.NET) before, I suggest you run, not walk, to check it out now. They’ve got a web site, a logo,...

Published Mon, Jul 13 2009 12:12 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: ALT.NET, VAN

The Perfect Web Framework

I’ve been paid professionally to work with or have messed around with many web frameworks. To name most of them: Perl/CGI RoR a tiny bit of Django ASP.NET WebForms ASP.NET MVC FubuMVC MonoRail a tiny bit of OpenRasta (sorry Sebastian, I keep failing to...

Published Tue, Jun 23 2009 1:32 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: Humor, MVC

How to Write Unmaintainable Code

A friend showed this one to me a long time ago, and I still chuckle every time I remember a snippet or two from it. How to Write Unmaintainable Code by Roedy Green Perhaps my most favorite section is the ‘Naming’ section: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmainnaming...

Published Fri, Jun 19 2009 6:05 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Humor, Unmaintainability

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Composition versus Inheritance

Thinking about sessions for Pablo’s Fiesta

FubuMVC Diagnostics

FubuMVC has moved to GitHub

Announcing FubuMVC

Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space Conference

“Productization”

Dovetail is Hiring a Junior-to-Mid-level .NET Developer

Chad’s Comment-worthiness Ranking Scale

Is Blogging Dead?

The usual result of Poor Man’s Dependency Injection

Just say no to 'Poor Man’s Dependency Injection’.

VAN is a friend of Pablo’s!

The Perfect Web Framework

How to Write Unmaintainable Code