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• How did I get started in software development?

  Thanks for tagging me Joey. How old were you when you started programming? I was 11 years old (6th grade) when I started using QBasic to make easy games. I actually knew about the easter egg that showed the developer names. What was your first language... Posted Jun 27 2008, 06:41 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, funny

• BDD macro and Reshaper Template

  My colleague, Joe Ocampo , created a ReSharper template: 1: [Test] 2: public void 3: "$Specification$" () To add the template, go to ReSharper->Options in the menu: Then choose "Live Templates" underneath the Templates heading from... Posted Nov 25 2007, 08:58 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Visual Studio, testing

• Rhino Mocks 3.3 is out!!

  Check out Oren's (Ayende Rahien) post here . Download it here . The most significant change that I like is the ability to setup expectations on void methods with Expect.Call. Check out Oren's other post about this here . Posted Oct 26 2007, 12:35 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Programming, ASP.NET, Mocking, C#

• Agile Development

  Currently I'm working on a team of 8 developers and have been practicing Agile for just under 2 years now. I read about it and tried a couple time before this 2 year span, but didn't realize how wrong I was approaching it. Scott Bellware has been... Posted Sep 09 2007, 09:27 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Blogs, Agile

• Monorail on WebHost4Life

  If anyone else is using hosting with WebHost4Life , I've gotten a Monorail site up there pretty quick using the MonoRailHttpHandlerFactory in my web.config, as suggested by the Castle Monorail installation documentation . Please note that the documentation... Posted Aug 11 2007, 12:38 AM by Jason Meridth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, castle, monorail, hosting issues

• Current things on my plate

  I'm doing a good deal of stuff lately: 1. Helping build/standardize the local .NET Users group in San Antonio ( Alamo Coders ) 2. Study/Learn/Grok Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Behavior Driven Design (BDD) 3. Put out a production Monorail site for... Posted Aug 09 2007, 08:18 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Books, castle, monorail, ruby

• Bill McCafferty is moving to Monorail

  Bill McCafferty, the author of NHibernate Best Practices on CodeProject , after researching many Separation of Concern Alternatives has decided to have his development team move to Monorail . ( read the post ) I'm curious to see how it goes. I'd... Posted May 29 2007, 11:33 AM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, castle, monorail

• Technical Debt

  " You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see two ways to do it, one is quick to do but is messy - you are sure that it will make further changes harder in the future. The other results in a cleaner design, but will... Posted May 15 2007, 09:18 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• For anyone beginning NHibernate

  I finally have a side project I'm going to use NHibernate on and blog about my experiences. A required watch (from my point of view): DNRTV Video - Oren Eini on NHibernate. Ayende Rahien = Oren Eini, if you did not know that. Oren is his real name. Here... Posted Apr 07 2007, 12:26 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, NHibernate

• Database unit testing

  Question : How do you handle database unit testing? My current position : We utilize a template pattern via a base Test Fixture and start the transaction and roll it back at TearDown. We have an entire test project of this type of interaction that gets... Posted Apr 06 2007, 10:31 AM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• Legacy Code

  I recently read Jeremy Miller's post on his thoughts about Legacy Code. His expanded definition of Legacy code was perfect: Legacy code is code that you're afraid of , but is too valuable or big to toss away. He comments on Michael Feathers and how his... Posted Apr 01 2007, 08:13 AM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• Active Record vs. Repository

  I was reading an blog entry by Ayende Rahien (aka Oren Eini) again, " Entities, Services and what goes between them... " and one of his commenters asked the following question: re: Entities, Services and what goes between them... 2/27/2007 6:44 PM Gustavo... Posted Mar 11 2007, 05:34 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• Google source code hosting

  If you don't want to host your own sourcecode on your own Subversion server like I was doing, check this out. It is Google's code hosting for subversion. You are given 100 MB of space and can apply a specific open source licensing rule to your source... Posted Mar 02 2007, 08:04 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• .NET interview questions everyone should know

  VERY GOOD READS Scot Hanselmann Interview questions: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhatGreatNETDevelopersOughtToKnowMoreNETInterviewQuestions.aspx Ayende Answers to Hanselmann questions: http://www.ayende.com/Blog/archive/8756.aspx Posted Mar 01 2007, 08:03 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Programming

• Coding Structure and Standards

  Today I had a good conversation with a colleague about software structure and coding standards. His beliefs are that a class should be a monolithic so the maintenance is centralized and everything a developer, mainly newbie or junior, needs is right there... Posted Feb 16 2007, 08:02 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments Filed under: Programming