Jimmy Bogard

Strengthening your domain: a primer

Recently, I talked some about the idea of an intentionally anemic domain model, under the name of “ Persistence Model ”. While a Persistence Model is great for a large percentage of projects, you may eventually want to move more behavior into the...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 9:41 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design

AutoMapper 1.0 RTW

AutoMapper is now officially 1.0. You can go grab the latest binaries here: AutoMapper 1.0 RTW Here are the release notes: New Features Changing the null substitute method name and allow any type of null substitute Consolidating custom constructor...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 5:44 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

Evolutionary Architecture

A popular cause the Agile folks like to rally against is the idea of a Big Design Up Front (BDUF). But much like Waterfall, the people doing BDUF will hardly admit that it’s BDUF that they’re doing. Instead, you’re much more likely to get...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 10:47 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Design

Context and Best Practices

Last night, I had a Skype/SharedView session with a buddy in Arkansas trying to apply DDD and “best practices” to an application he was building. He wanted to use all the ALT.NET tools he’s heard so much about, such as NHibernate, StructureMap and...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 9:25 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design

Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems

So you’ve set up StructureMap, got all your registries in a row, go to run the application, and you’re greeted by a rather unfortunate message: StructureMap.StructureMapException : StructureMap Exception Code: 202 No Default Instance defined for PluginFamily...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:21 PM by bogardj

Filed under: StructureMap

My picture of an MVC-WebForms marriage

Like it or not, WebForms is not going away. Fortune 50 companies use it for their public facing, mission critical websites, and I can’t really see many of these folks tossing away years of work simply because MVC is the new shiny. Talking...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 8:25 PM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC

Starting fresh

While prepping for the Headspring MVC Boot Camp last week, I had a couple of choices for getting the examples project up and going. I wanted the examples to use an actual domain model, a real IoC tool, and a real ORM underneath the covers. ...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 10:12 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Design

Poor use of DI versus need for DI

Surprise surprise, but Uncle Bob got the twitterverse all riled up with another opinionated post, “ Dependency Injection Inversion ”. His basic advice from the post on DI tools is: I think these frameworks are great tools. But I also think you should...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 9:19 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Design

Advanced StructureMap: custom registration conventions for partially closed types

A while back, I highlighted an issue we ran into where I had basically partially closed generic types . A common pattern in message- and command-based architectures is the concept of a handler for a message: public interface IHandler <TEvent>...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 11:59 AM by bogardj

Filed under: StructureMap

MVC Bootcamp next week

Next week, I’ll be teaching a 3-day course on ASP.NET MVC, as part of Headspring’s ASP.NET MVC Boot Camp . The material touches on a lot of the ASP.NET MVC features we use day-to-day, as well as looking at how we use ASP.NET MVC. Topics...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 9:54 AM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC

UI Automation tools snake oil?

Michael Feathers posted a thoughtful piece describing the general problems of UI testing tools and the industry in general . In general, I’d agree here. Automation tool vendors, as with almost every tool vendor out there, are eager to solve...

Published Mon, Jan 04 2010 9:03 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Testing

AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem

As I move towards the 1.0 release of AutoMapper, I’m already running in to things I wish I had done differently. I still will probably fix all of these eventually, but none of these design issues should prevent a release, especially since it’s not...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 12:28 AM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types

One pattern we’re starting to see more and more is the idea of connecting messages to handlers. These messages might be domain command messages, ActionResult messages , and more. Beyond messaging implementations, we start to see a more basic...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 11:03 PM by bogardj

Filed under: StructureMap

Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult)

One of the more interesting abstractions in ASP.NET MVC is the concept of an action result. Instead of calling a method to direct the result of calling an action, such as frameworks like Rails allows: def create @book = Book.new(params[:book]) if...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 11:25 AM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC

InfoQ interview on ASP.NET MVC in Action up

Last week, Jeffrey, Ben and I were interviewed by Jon Arild Tørresdal at InfoQ to talk about our recent book ASP.NET MVC in Action . I’ve always loved the InfoQ interviews (as well as their articles), as they asked us really great questions. ...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 8:53 AM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC in Action

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Strengthening your domain: a primer

AutoMapper 1.0 RTW

Evolutionary Architecture

Context and Best Practices

Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems

My picture of an MVC-WebForms marriage

Starting fresh

Poor use of DI versus need for DI

Advanced StructureMap: custom registration conventions for partially closed types

MVC Bootcamp next week

UI Automation tools snake oil?

AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem

Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types

Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult)

InfoQ interview on ASP.NET MVC in Action up