Sean Chambers

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  • ‘Vice’ Testing

    Refactoring to tests is no easy task. The largest problem that you run into is moving around code with no feedback as to whether you are breaking modules other than doing very high level user/functional testing directly against the UI. This makes the...

  • TDD Firestarter

    I want to thank everyone for coming out to the TDD Firestarter event that we had in Tampa yesterday. We had an excellent turnout (about 80 people), and everyone was very interested in getting to know TDD/BDD. We are in the process of post-processing videos...

  • Starting with BDD vs. starting with TDD

    Yesterday I did a presentation on TDD/BDD at the Tamp Code Camp . I have done several TDD presentations in the past but this was the first time I also showed the attendees BDD at the same time. In actuality I didn't even show them a traditional TDD...

  • PTOM: The Decorator Pattern

    For the month of November, Pablo's Topic of the Month is Design Patterns. I will be talking about the Decorator design pattern in this post. The Decorator Pattern was originally coined by The Gang Of Four (GoF). It is a commonly used pattern for extending...

  • LosTechies welcomes Colin Jack!

    Today the LosTechies family welcomes Colin Jack to the site. Colin is a very active member in the ALT.NET and .NET Community. Colin resides in Edinburgh, UK. So please take a moment and welcome Colin to the family! Welcome Colin! We look forward to insightful...

  • New job, new opportunities at Telligent

    Over the last couple of months I have been casually looking at the job market in the Jacksonville/Orlando area at various opportunities. None of the really interested me and had mediocre opportunities at best. I was comfortable in my current job, but...

  • Refactoring towards deeper insight

    While giving my DDD presentation at the Jacksonville Code Camp, I felt that DDD refactoring was one area that I really didn't touch on enough. I mentioned it briefly but I wanted to build on the discussion that we started to have in the presentation...

  • Jacksonville Code Camp

    Jacksonville Code Camp was a great success. Even with faced with changing the venue only 48 hours before the event due to Tropical Storm Fay, Jonathan Bates and the rest of the team was able to pull it off with flying colors! I have great respect for...
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  • Designing Controllers

    Once you wrap your head around using MVC in your web apps you tend to look at other ways to make your Controllers more descriptive. Specifically the way you structure and document your controllers. I have noticed that a few portions of MVC design that...

  • Tour of MonoRail Series

    Due to a spell of blogger's block, I thought I would do a series postings to help me get past it. This post begins a series on highlighting various features of the Castle Project MonoRail. All series will be examples from the MonoRail trunk. Some...

  • Refactoring an established Domain Model

    Writing Domain models is by far one of the most difficult things to do. It takes years of practice, errors and learning to get good at writing halfway decent domain models. This becomes even more difficult when we attempt to add ideas like Domain Driven...

  • A call for Alt.Net Speakers

    In an attempt to spread awareness in the North/Central Florida area on Alt.Net topics I am trying to gather speakers familiar with Alt.Net topics to speak at the Jacksonville Code Camp that is coming up on August 23rd. The topics I am envisioning are...

  • The strive to do better

    Late night thoughts after a coding session before going to sleep. One skill that I value above all others in software development and life in general is the inner drive and motivation to do better and to do more. It is a skill that can be honed over time...

  • Getting up to speed with the Castle.MonoRail trunk

    Over the last couple of months there have been a slew of great refactorings done on the castle monorail trunk. Some of these refactorings were inspired by ASP.Net MVC changes such as the new routing module. I have just now started to play with monorail...

  • ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate available

    FYI, Just read this posting , good news! Resharper 4 Release Candidate is now available. The last time I udpated from the nightly build has been pretty stable. A couple of minor bugs but no biggies. Good job guys!
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