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Albacore: Breaking Changes In Location Of Executables

I was working on cleaning up Albacore this weekend, and I noted that both the NCoverConsole and MSBuild tasks in Albacore both require the location of the .exe, to execute. The MSBuild task defaults itself to the .NET 3.5 SP1 folder, if none is specified...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2009 3:20 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Refactoring, Rake, Ruby, Albacore

Favor Defect Prevention Over Quality Inspection And Correction

In the manufacturing world, you would never find a company that assembles a bunch of parts into a final product before inspecting any of the individual parts, and they would not wait until the end of the assembly line to test for the quality of the product...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 10:04 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Refactoring, Analysis and Design, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Standardized Work, Management, Lean Systems, Behavior Driven Development

PTOM: Descriptive State Enumeration

This post is part of the November 2008 Pablo's Topic Of The Month (PTOM) - Design Patterns and will primarily outline the State pattern, with an Enumeration or Descriptor pattern thrown in for good measure. Switch statements and if-then statements...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 2:31 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Design Patterns, Refactoring, Principles and Patterns, .NET

Finding Design Smells In Non-Design Related Places

In my last post , I talked about the idea of encapsulation and using it to ensure that our business rules were enforced correctly. What I didn't talk about, though, was the second half of the conversation that my coworker and I had, concerning the...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 1:45 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Design Patterns, Refactoring, Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, Domain Driven Design, NHibernate, Data Access

Encapsulation: Entities, Collections And Business Rules

Yesterday, I was involved two very separate yet very related conversations. One was via twitter with Colin Jack and Jimmy Bogard (which I was only a partial contributor to - mostly just reading their conversation) and another after work with a coworker...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 8:49 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Design Patterns, Refactoring, Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, .NET, Model-View-Presenter, Domain Driven Design

Dependency Inversion: 'Abstraction' Does Not Mean 'Interface'

A coworker recently asked if we should always abstract every object into an interface in order to fulfill the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP). The question stunned me at first, honestly. I knew in my head that this was a bad idea - abstracting into...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 4:04 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Refactoring, Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, .NET, Domain Driven Design, Agile, Philosophy of Software, Lambda Expressions

DI and IoC: Creating And Working With A Cloud Of Objects

A few months ago, I posted some thoughts and questions on the proper use of Inversion of Control (IoC) containers and the Dependency Inversion (DI) principle . Since then, I've had the opportunity to do some additional study and teaching of DI, and...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 8:18 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Design Patterns, Refactoring, Unit Testing, Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, .NET

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