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Austin Code Camp 2010 Call For Speakers

When: May 15, 2010 – 8:30 AM – 5PM Where: St. Edwards University Professional Education Center, Austin, TX The Austin .Net Users Group is hosting its fifth Code Camp. This one day, community driven conference has grown beyond...

Published Sun, Feb 21 2010 11:34 PM by jcteague

Implementing Domain Queries

My current Repository interface looks something like this: public interface IRepository { T FindOne<T>( int id); T FindBy<T>(Expression<Func<T, bool >> expression); IEnumerable<T> FindAllBy<T>(Expression<Func<T...

Published Sat, Jan 30 2010 12:48 AM by jcteague

Filed under: NHibernate, DDD, linq

Brown Bag It To Pablo’s Fiesta

Thanks to the generous folks, at St. Edwards PEC, the only real cost to organizing our Open Space conference is providing food. This what the $15 registration fee is covering: food, drinks and snacks. It’s important to us that whoever wants to attend...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 10:11 AM by jcteague

And Now a Word From Our Sponsors

I wanted to take a moment and thank the sponsors of Pablo’s fiesta open space conference . People and Organizations who sponsor conferences do so because they value their community and use base. This is especially so for open space conferences...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 6:33 PM by jcteague

Filed under: fiesta open-spaces

The Open Space Conference Experience

he Los Techies Fiesta is shaping up to be a wonderful conference. We’ve had excellent response with more than 60 people register and quite a few sponsors to help make it even better. I thought I would take a moment and talk about what it's...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 12:30 AM by jcteague

Pablo’s Fiesta: Open Space Conference in Austin TX

Pablo's Fiesta Los Techies Open Space Conference on Software Quality & Craftsmanship When: February 26, 27 & 28 Where: St. Edward's Professional Educational Center, Austin TX I am proud to announce the first Los Techies Open Space Conference. ...

Published Mon, Nov 16 2009 4:36 PM by jcteague

Filed under: los-techies-fiesta

Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use

Todd Anglin presented some of the AJAX functionality available in ASP.Net 4.0 at this months ADNUG meeting. One of the things he demonstrated was the Client Side binding, which is really cool (I’ll have more on this later). In one of his code samples...

Published Wed, Sep 16 2009 12:21 AM by jcteague

JQuery Does Not Like QuirksMode

I was helping a client out today with a JQuery issue. They were well into the development of an applications that heavily uses the JQuery UI dialog widget to show information. Like most web developers they were using Firefox/Firebug for day-to-day...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2009 11:21 PM by jcteague

Filed under: JavaScript, jQuery

Testing Private & Protected Members of a Class

In my last blog post, someone asked me you can write unit tests for a private or protected method. I gave part of the response in a comment, but I need to give a more detailed description. Focus on the public API of your system First and foremost...

Published Fri, Aug 28 2009 12:48 AM by jcteague

Filed under: Testing, c#

The TryThis method

The more I learn and use dynamic languages like JavaScript and Ruby, the more I feel the constraints placed on me by the C# compiler. Today I needed to wrap a bunch of calls to a web service facade in some try catch statements. I really hated...

Published Thu, Aug 27 2009 12:19 AM by jcteague

Filed under: c#

Wiring Up Generics In Castle Windsor

I'm working with a new team that has a slightly different technology stack then I'm used to. On most projects where I am the team lead, StructureMap is my IOC container of choice. I've always thought that this was just laziness on my part because I can...

Published Thu, Aug 20 2009 4:49 PM by jcteague

Filed under: Castle, IOC

Demeter Helps You Fend Off the One True Constant: Change

There have been some good discussion lately around the Law of Demeter . The worst thing about Law of Demeter is that it has the word “Law” in it. Like all of the SOLID principles, it should be considered a rule of thumb and your experience...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2009 12:33 AM by jcteague

Filed under: SOLID, Law of Demeter, Software Design

Giving Your MVC Views an Identity

One of the great CSS tips I got from Zen of CSS was to put an id on the body tag of your html pages. This makes it really easy to use one CSS file for your entire site (a optimization trick) and allow you to target elements on specific page easily without...

Published Wed, Jul 15 2009 1:01 AM by jcteague

Filed under: MVC, CSS

Programming Basics: The for loop can do more than increment an integer

This is one of those small things that is easy to forget. Usually when we use a for loop, we'll just incrment over an integer so that we can get a specific item out of some iteration. But you can do much more than that. My current project has a complicated...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 2:50 PM by jcteague

Ruby and Rake as an executable

I've been trying for months to get my partner in crime , Stephen Balkum , to switch to Rake as our default build system. We've been using Nant FOREVER and while it works, I really hate writing Nant scripts. The problem Stephen had with going to...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2009 4:05 PM by jcteague

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