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Oxite Review

Several folks, including Microsoft employees and members of the Oxite team, have politely requested I do a post or few on the problems I see with Oxite and why I previously recommended that it is not a good example/sample from which to base future products...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2008 12:05 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: ORM, Repositories, Design, NHibernate, Oxite, Domain

Internal DSL Pattern: Method Chaining

This is a portion of a larger set of posts on the subject of Internal DSLs . Method Chaining is a pattern explained by Martin Fowler as part of his DSL book work in progress. Fowler’s take on Method Chaining is useful to more fully understand this post...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 11:22 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Design, DSL

ALT.NET Workshops: Internal DSL Draft Outline, Notes

I’ve been preparing for the upcoming ALT.NET Workshop (associated with KaizenConf ) on Internal Domain Specific Languages (DSL). The schedule hasn’t been released yet, but I’m pretty sure the Internal DSL workshop will be on Friday 31...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 12:30 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Design, DSL

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

This morning I happened to see the article “ .NET Coding Standard & Code Review Points ” linked from the good folks over at DotNetKicks.com . I was horrified to see some of the very bad guidance being offered here. While I appreciate and applaud...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 11:15 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Programming, Design, Guidance

Good Design is not Subjective

In case you haven’t guessed by my recent flurry of posts, I’ve been engaged in some debates in the past few days about design philosophies and why some designs are “good” and some are “bad.” I’ve been met with some relativistic arguments that no...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 11:02 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Design

Let’s try it again… testability succinctly

My last try wasn’t that successful, so I’ll try it again: (In-language based) Testability is the residue of a good design.* Better? * (This is a slight play on John Milton’s famous quote ‘Luck is the residue of design’)

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 5:22 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Design

Design and Testability

There was a rather healthy public discussion and debate going on via Twitter today between Roy Osherove, Ayende Rahien, Colin Jack, me, and several others. Michael Feathers even dropped in at one point which was cool. This all started when Roy twittered...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2008 9:27 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: TDD, Design

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