May 2008 - Jimmy Bogard - Los Techies : Blogs about software and anything tech!

MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff

Last week, I announced the MVC Storefront Challenge , which is a response to some feedback Rob Conery was getting on his ongoing MVC Storefront series. Before I could get started, I needed to get the original project up and running on my own machine....

Published Wed, May 28 2008 9:19 PM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC

Austin Code Camp material posted

I've (finally) posted my slides and code from Austin Code Camp: Intro to C# 3.0 Mocks and Stubs Legacy Code All code includes before and after solutions, along with descriptive comments on the changes made (and why). The slides aren't too interesting...

Published Tue, May 27 2008 10:07 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Austin Code Camp

Working with the web model

Lots of comments from my recent post on ASP.NET WebForms being officially unmaintainable noted that: AJAX works with the ClientID property I don't care about HTML One thing to remember about web applications is that web applications are nothing more...

Published Wed, May 21 2008 8:46 PM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET

The MVC Storefront Challenge!

In Rob Conery's recent post on the MVC Storefront example he's been working on, he got some comment to basically toss out Linq2SQL and use NHibernate instead. Blah. How about the community does it instead? I'm not looking for an us vs. them...

Published Tue, May 20 2008 11:25 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design, LINQ to SQL, ASP.NET MVC

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Taking a small detour before I deliver the first installment in the Domain-Driven Design: Supple Design Patterns series, I'd like to cover the basic elements of Domain-Driven Design modeling: Entities Value Objects Aggregates and Roots I'd like...

Published Tue, May 20 2008 10:59 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design

More Entity Framework thoughts

Dan Simmons has a great write-up on Microsoft's vision of Entity Framework that really gives some insight into the motivation behind a lot of the direction that they're going in. Go read that post, and come back. Back now? OK good. I like to pull...

Published Mon, May 19 2008 5:32 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Entity Framework

ASP.NET: officially unmaintainable

Recent forays back into "classic" ASP.NET (i.e. not MVC) have me completely convinced that ASP.NET is inherently unmaintainable. Not partially convinced, not on the fence, but completely convinced that the presentation layer of ASP.NET cannot...

Published Sun, May 18 2008 10:13 PM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET, MonoRail

Austin Code Camp 2008 post-mortem

I really hate the word "post-mortem." Did someone die? Anyway, I had a great time in my talks over: Legacy Code Intro to C# 3.0 Mocks and Stubs All in all, I felt the Legacy Code talk went the best as it generated the most discussion. I heard...

Published Sun, May 18 2008 9:58 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Austin Code Camp

See you at Austin Code Camp!

This week I'll be speaking at Austin Code Camp , a technical conference here in Austin that features in-depth code-centric sessions. The sessions I'm doing are: Intro to C# 3.0 - covering practical and pragmatic applications of the new features...

Published Thu, May 15 2008 7:51 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Misc

Domain-Driven Design: Supple Design Patterns Series

At last week's Austin DDD Book Club , we discussed my favorite chapter in Evans' Domain-Driven Design book : Supple Design. Modeling is an important exercise in Domain-Driven Design, but it's not enough to have a codebase that's easy to...

Published Thu, May 15 2008 7:37 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design

LINQ query operators: lose that foreach already!

Now that .NET 3.5 is out with all its LINQ query operator goodness, I feel like going on a mean streak of trashing a lot of our (now) pointless foreach loops. Some example operations include: Transformations Aggregations Concatenations Filtering As I...

Published Fri, May 09 2008 6:11 PM by bogardj

Filed under: C#, LINQ

Enhancing mappers with LINQ

The "big 3" higher-order functions in functional programming are Filter, Map and Reduce. When looking at the new C# 3.0 LINQ query operators, we find that all three have equivalents : Filter = Where Map = Select Reduce = Aggregate Whenever you...

Published Thu, May 08 2008 7:49 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design, C#, LINQ

Mike Cohn in town

Mike Cohn , author of User Stories Applied and Agile Estimation and Planning , is speaking tomorrow night as a part of Agile Austin's Distinguished Speaker Series. The topic is "Succeeding with Agile: A Guide to Transitioning" , with the...

Published Wed, May 07 2008 7:26 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Agile

PabloTV: Eliminating static dependencies screencast

Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named "Helper". I've certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies...

Published Tue, May 06 2008 7:24 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Legacy Code, Refactoring, BDD, TDD, PabloTV

A pointless exercise

I caught this last night from Scott Hanselman on Twitter: http://www.betterwebapp.com/drupal/?q=screencasts It's a side-by-side comparison of the time to create a simple web app for: Ruby Perl ASP.NET Java The website compares a few other frameworks...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 7:40 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Misc, Rant

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