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August 2008 - Mo Khan's Blog

  • The FUN-duh-MENTALs

    So tonight I got to help demo what a fishbowl was at the ALT.NET Canada (thanks Doc!) conference and the topic of discussion was on the Fundamentals of Software development. During the session I started to realize that what I considered to be fundamental...
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  • Droppin' Pennies on context specs...

    First off I want to make it clear that I'm not a guru on the topic, but I do find it interesting. The topic of course is Context Based Specifications. I've seen an emergence in interest in writing context based specifications lately on the blogosphere...
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  • Parsing The Payload

    So this week we got to start working a brand spanking new MVC project. So far we're leveraging Castle Windsor, NHibernate, Fluent Nhibernate, and kind of running Linq to NHibernate. It's amazing how quickly you can get a project up and running...
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  • Disciplined Agility

    I finished reading... Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series) by Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin Read more about this book...   What an excellent book, seriously! It was written by Robert C. Martin and his son Micah...
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  • Disconnected - Channels Of Communication

    A few weeks ago I started feeling a little over whelmed by the volume of interest in what I was up to. After reading a chapter from Tim Ferris' book, I decided to disconnect. It was the most effective advice I could have ever received. I went cold...
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  • Ooops...

    Mike left a comment on my last post on Windows Forms Databinding asking: What do the tests look like? On the ComboBox binding, why aren't you using adding the binding through DataBinding.Add?  With the way you have it now if you change the value...
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  • Windows Forms Data Binding

    A couple of weeks ago, Adam and I were pairing on a new screen in a windows forms application. He started showing me some stuff that he had learned about windows forms data bindings. I showed him a little bit of what JP tried to teach me, back in the...
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  • Recursive Command

    Note : this entry has moved . When building up a tree view that represents the directory structure of a file system, like the windows explorer, my first reaction was to use recursion to traverse the file system and build up a tree. I quickly found that...
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