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One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC

Last week marked the one year anniversary our team’s first ASP.NET MVC application in production. We really have two different types of production. Internal and external. While an internal application might get used by 2 to 100 people, our external applications...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 11:20 PM by Chris Missal

Filed under: Development, ASP.NET MVC

Unique Keys versus IDs in Web Applications

An ID is a fine way to uniquely identify an object, the common usage is also very user un-friendly. A while back I was watching a presentation by Jeffrey Palermo on Community For MVC.Net , then later at a live presentation and discussion at the local...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 11:08 PM by Chris Missal

Filed under: Best Practices, Development

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...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 12:04 AM by Chris Missal

Filed under: DRY, Development, ASP.NET MVC, Moq, RhinoMocks, NUnit

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...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 12:11 AM by Chris Missal

Filed under: Testing, Best Practices, Development, Continuous Improvement

We Remembered Not to Dive Too Deep Too Soon

While reading " Remember to not dive too deep too soon " by Derik Whittaker , I was reminded of something that happened at work today. We were going over a couple new stories in our backlog and needed to assign points to them. Before adopting Scrum a...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 10:45 PM by Chris Missal

Filed under: Development, Project Management

Now that I use the Delete Key…

Some Quick Background I have the longest tenure on our team, and it’s not that long; there was a bit of an exodus just prior to me joining. I was with a small contract team and none of us knew the code when we were thrown into the situation. Needless...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2009 9:21 AM by Chris Missal

Filed under: Legacy Code, Best Practices, Development

Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – You’re Doing it Wrong!

When shown ideal code, I think developers understand why it is favorable. When it is regarding Separation of Concerns (SoC) or Single Responsibility Principle ( SRP ) the consensus is something along the lines of “of course, that makes sense”...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 8:00 AM by Chris Missal

Filed under: SOLID, Legacy Code, Testing, Best Practices, Design Principles, DRY, Development

Workaround is a Four-Letter Word

Today in a meeting I heard: “We can provide a workaround for you” and immediately wrote down the title of this post in my notepad. Obviously, workaround is not a four-letter word in reality, but does have nearly the same meaning as the actual...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 8:13 PM by Chris Missal

Filed under: Development, Rant

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