Ray Houston

Fluent Silverlight - Auto Wiring INotifyPropertyChanged

In Gabriel's introductory post for Fluent Silverlight , he showed that the code typically associated with implementing INotifyPropertyChanged can be reduced to a simple auto property. This can really improve the clarity of a large class as well as save...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2009 11:13 PM by Ray Houston

Filed under: INotifyPropertyChanged, Fluent Silverlight, MVVM, Dynamic Proxy

Simple Code Navigation with ReSharper

Here's a quick 5 minute screen cast that demonstrates how you can use ReSharper to get where you want to be in your code. If you haven't tried ReSharper yet, I highly recommend that you download the free trial and give it a spin. Technorati Tags...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2009 9:20 PM by Ray Houston

Filed under: ReSharper, Tools, .NET

Don't Waste The Time We Have Now

I almost titled this "Get Things Done" but this post is not about how to do things. This post is about minimizing waste associated with distractions from non work related activities. I'm talking about things like Instant Messenger, Twitter...

Published Sun, Mar 15 2009 6:47 PM by Ray Houston

Pablo welcomes Gabriel Schenker

I'm happy to announce that Gabriel Schenker has accepted an invitation to join Los Techies. You may know Gabriel as the man behind the NHibernate FAQ Blog or contributor to many of the software related community lists. He is an expert in didactics...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2009 12:00 PM by Ray Houston

Filed under: Members

PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern

The Composite Design Pattern This post talks about the Composite Design Pattern and is part of Pablo's Topic of the Month - November: Design Patterns . A Composite is a tree structure where each node can be represented as a common type so that they can...

Published Mon, Nov 17 2008 9:07 PM by Ray Houston

Filed under: PTOM, Programming, Patterns, Principles

Pablo's Topic of the Month - November: Design Patterns

Pablo's Topic of the Month - November: Design Patterns Back in April, we announced we would be doing a PTOM on Design Patterns. It turned out that April was a busy month for all of us and we didn't live up to our announcement. I think we're going to claim...

Published Wed, Nov 05 2008 5:57 AM by Ray Houston

Filed under: PTOM, Programming, Patterns, Principles

Udi's SOA Class Made Me Smart

Chris challenged me to write a post showing how smart I am after taking the class. ;) While I know that "made me smart" is completely unbelievable, I did manage learn a great deal. I'm slow to getting around to this post, but little over...

Published Sun, Oct 26 2008 12:07 PM by Ray Houston

Filed under: SOA

Senior Developer Opportunity in Austin

TOPAZ Technologies is currently looking for a Senior Developer who loves to write .NET code. We're a product company that builds software solutions for the medical research industry. Here are some of the details for the position: If you are pragmatic...

Published Sat, Oct 25 2008 9:26 AM by Ray Houston

Single-Responsibility Versus Needless Complexity

At Pablo's Day of TDD , we were discussing the Single-Responsibility Principle (SRP) while working through one of the labs and a question came up about a piece of code. The code in question looked something like the following (warning: this is over...

Published Sun, Oct 05 2008 6:07 PM by Ray Houston

Learning TDD

Learning TDD takes time and can be especially tough if you don't have an opportunity to work with folks that are already doing TDD. It requires you to think and work differently and there are many pitfalls along the way. I know that I've made...

Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 9:22 PM by Ray Houston

How Mr. Buford got me started in software development

Jason tagged me awhile back for a "How did I get started in software development?" post and I'm just now getting around to it, but I'm going to change the format a little. One morning back in 1982/83 when I was in the 6th grade, I was...

Published Sat, Sep 20 2008 8:50 PM by Ray Houston

Creating a Silverlight Layout Panel

On our current project, we came across the need to build some custom layout panels in Silverlight to achieve some complex fluid layouts that we could not get from the built in controls. I was amazed to see how easy it was to create your own. This panel...

Published Sun, Sep 14 2008 12:21 PM by Ray Houston

From Flex to Silverlight

A couple of years ago my company started development on a web product that had designs for a very rich user interface. We started out building a AJAX HTML based application and realized very soon that we were having to work really hard to make HTML and...

Published Sat, Sep 13 2008 10:52 AM by Ray Houston

Do Anonymous Methods Prevent Declaring Types from Being GC'd?

It seems that they do if they reference members of the declaring type. This makes perfect sense now that I think about it, but I didn't think about it earlier and wrote some code that caused a memory leak. I had an object acting as a singleton and...

Published Wed, May 21 2008 9:57 PM by Ray Houston

Synchronizing UI Operations with Asynchronous Dependencies

When working with asynchronous data access such as using a Silverlight client to access data from a server side service, you will inevitably run into the situation where you have two or more calls which have results that need to be processed in a synchronous...

Published Wed, May 14 2008 10:14 PM by Ray Houston

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