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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

Going Controller-less in MVC: The Way Fowler Meant It To Be

This is sort of a stream-of-consciousness post. Several folks have been asking me what I mean by ‘Controllerless actions’ and what I’m thinking about doing in FubuMVC. The conversation has already started publically on twitter, so I thought I’d...

Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 3:06 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: MVC, FubuMVC, Controllerless

On the performance of “Opinionated Builders”

I was reading Eric Hexter’s post titled “ Opinionated Input Builders Part 6: Performance of the Builders ” and I was going to leave a lengthy comment, but decided it would be better as its own blog post: I’m going to assume that the data is all correct...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 1:35 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: Premature optimization

Some quick updates

I know I’ve been remiss in my blog posting duties. Please trust me when I say it’s for good reason and that you’d understand. I appreciate you sticking with me. In the meantime, here are a few tidbits that you might find worth noting: Announcing: Zen...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2009 11:41 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc, Agile, NHibernate

Lifecycle of an open source project

I’ve had several people ask me about the state of various open source projects that I’m involved with or advocate. They ask questions such as “Is it alpha or beta?”, “Should we start using it?”, and “Where can I get started learning more?”. I find...

Published Thu, May 28 2009 12:58 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Open source

Austin CodeCamp ‘09: Quite Possibly Better than Bacon

You should go to Austin CodeCamp ‘09. That’s a pretty sensationalistic title, I’ll give you that. I’m very serious though, Austin CodeCamp ‘09 may actually prove to be better than bacon and even -- yes, I’m going all the way here – cookie dough ice cream...

Published Sun, May 17 2009 5:13 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: CodeCamp, LosTechies

I need some peer review on this

So I have a problem where I have an open type: public class ThunderdomeActionInvoker<TController, TInput, TOutput> : IControllerActionInvoker where TController : class where TInput : class , new () where TOutput : class { /*...*/ } And I need to...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 12:21 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, GenericFun

To MVC or to WebForms?

In case you haven’t been following it, there’s a sort of blog storm happening around whether or not you should learn ASP.NET MVC (or indeed MVC in general) or stick with Web Forms. You can follow the storm here: Rob Connery’s Post (which also has links...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 6:23 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, FubuMVC

Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#harp Architecture

The VAN is still going strong, thanks to Zachariah Young for all his dedication and hard work! We’re looking for feedback on the format and topics. Please opine on the Virtual ALT.NET Mailing List (they’re up to 286 members now!). This week there’ll be...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 1:24 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: VAN

Excelling in a job interview

My friend and co-worker Gary Sherman recently tweeted this and I thought I would share it with you: How to Nail an Interview: http://www.howtonailaninterview.com/ (for my English-as-a-second-language friends, ‘nail’ here means ‘to achieve great success...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2009 12:12 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: Advice

Virtual ALT.NET Meeting Tonight

Zachariah Young has been rockin’ the Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) meetings for the past several months. There’s been good turnout and good discussions. He’s kicking it up a notch and asking members of the community to present something interesting at each...

Published Wed, Apr 01 2009 10:18 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: VAN

How to apply for a professional job

Think for a good solid 10 seconds before answering these two questions: “What does the word ‘professional’ mean to you?” and “Do you consider yourself a professional?” I’ll wait while you think. If you answered “Yes” to the second question...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 10:34 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Advice, Hiring

Dovetail Hiring Software Tester/Test Engineer

http://www.dovetailsoftware.com/about/careers.aspx Dovetail Hiring Senior Software Tester or Test Engineer Work for one of the most progressive software development shops in the US. We’re building a new software product line using pioneering practices...

Published Thu, Mar 19 2009 6:12 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Dovetail, Hiring

ALT.NET “Mean” – How do we fix it?

I’m watching the video that Scott Hanselman graciously recorded of the “ ALT.NET: Why so mean? ” session at ALT.NET Seattle. I’m rolling my eyes a lot at the discussion because it seems to miss a lot of the basic points and the severity of the minor crisis...

Published Sun, Mar 01 2009 2:21 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: ALT.NET, Mean

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