Teachers vs. Speakers D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 "We have very little need for speakers, and we're starving for teachers." "The difference between speaking and teaching is subtle, but the whole point of leading a session is made or lost in that subtlety." ... Teachers vs. Speakers 0 0 9
Anthropomorphic perspective for object-oriented design bmoore, January 1, 0001 It is difficult to introduce both novice and experienced procedural programmers to the anthropomorphic perspective necessary for object-oriented design. Wherever possible we wish to illustrate the use ... Anthropomorphic perspective for object-oriented design 0 0 0
use Activator.CreateInstance to dynamically load the concrete cla... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I have a Factory class that creates number of classes to handle different XML responses, returned by Web Service. All of them are derived from some base class GwsResponse and created depending on the top ... use Activator.CreateInstance to dynamically load the concrete cla... 0 0 2
New to Design Patterns? Chris Canal, January 1, 0001 Have all your Desgin Pattern woes solved and more: http://uncyclopedia.org/wik... As a general rule of thumb, keep in mind that your code instantly gets 270-890% better when using design ... New to Design Patterns? 0 0 2
Css and Custom Server Controls Will Smith, January 1, 0001 I guess it's about time I've posted again. I've been very busy. Just coming up for air for a bit. I've been mixing some CSS design patterns with Server Controls recently. Aside: A nice book about CSS design ... Css and Custom Server Controls 0 0 0
CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up - Dependency Injection and IoC Containers Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 I really enjoyed speaking at this past weekend's CMAP Code Camp. I hope you all enjoyed my presentation on "Loosen Your Dependencies with Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers". It was ... CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up - Dependency Injection and IoC Containers 0 0 0
RockNUG IoC Container Presentation Wrapup Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 I want to thank the fine folks at the Rockville .NET Users Group (RockNUG) and Dean Fiala for giving me the opportunity to speak last night. It was a record crowd last night, so I'm glad that people were ... RockNUG IoC Container Presentation Wrapup 0 0 0
Features in .Net 3.0 Gaurav Taneja, January 1, 0001 A Preview of What is New in C# 3.0 On the heels of the Visual Studio 2005 and C# 2.0 releases, Microsoft has given a sneak preview of what to expect in the version after the next: C# 3.0. Even though C# ... Features in .Net 3.0 0 0 3
XUnit.net RC2 Released Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: More posts on the subject xUnit.net RC3 Just Released Relooking at xUnit.net RC2 UPDATE: xUnit.NET RC2 New Drop includes ASP.NET MVC support and better GUI runner. Details here. UPDATE: Added Static ... XUnit.net RC2 Released 0 0 1
Model-View-Controller and Assembly Dependencies Robert Paveza, January 1, 0001 The title of this blog post might be a slight misnomer because it isn't dealing with MVC directly. It's dealing with something a little more high level (oddly enough). I'm working on a personal project ... Model-View-Controller and Assembly Dependencies 0 0 0
ALT.NET Thinking From The Outside Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 As I've noted before, Dave Laribee was recently interviewed by Scott Hanselman on Episode 104 of Hanselminutes. The reaction that I've seen has been pretty positive from what I've seen. It's great to see ... ALT.NET Thinking From The Outside 0 0 0
TCXNAUG March Speaker Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 Twin Cities XNA User Group - March 20, 2008 3D Game Development March Guest Speaker: Nick Landry This session quickly skims over the basics and takes you through an iterative approach towards building ... TCXNAUG March Speaker 0 0 0
Code Generators Unite! jbaggett, January 1, 0001 I am looking to find other people that have worked with code generation on project developement to discuss strageties, design patterns, and areas on which code generation adds value using code generation ... Code Generators Unite! 0 0 0
Thinking Inside the Box and Premature Optimization Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 At the last DC ALT.NET meeting, there was a good discussion regarding premature optimization. Anything that involves this brings me to a rather famous quote by a great computer scientist, Donald Knuth ... Thinking Inside the Box and Premature Optimization 0 0 0
Links of the Month (Feb08) Kurt Claeys, January 1, 0001 I'll try to post every month some interesting links (to blogsposts, articles, white books and other content) I noticed on the net in the last month during professional daily work or from personal interests ... Links of the Month (Feb08) 0 0 1
Final Reminder - DC ALT.NET Meeting 2/20 - 7PM Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 As posted previously here, the DC ALT.NET February meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 from 7-9PM. Stelligent has been really kind to provide the facility and the food/drinks. ... Final Reminder - DC ALT.NET Meeting 2/20 - 7PM 0 0 0
2 Parts Personal Developer Gary Pronych, January 1, 0001 Last year, a number of developers participated in a 'Becoming a Better Developer' challenge issued by Justice Gray; I commend their efforts. As a software developer, your entire career is devoted personal ... 2 Parts Personal Developer 0 0 0
Simple C# Delegate Sample Mohammad Ashraful Alam, January 1, 0001 New developers often ask me about C# delegate, as they got a bit confused about the basic concept and specially maximum of the reference contains and discussed from an advanced view. Well I think delegate ... Simple C# Delegate Sample 0 0 55
Dependency Injection and IoC with Spring.NET Kurt Claeys, January 1, 0001 As my interest grows to learn more about the J2EE development platform (I strongly believe that knowledge of both platforms is needed to work in an IT architect role) I started looking at Spring.Net. Spring ... Dependency Injection and IoC with Spring.NET 0 0 12
Link List: jQuery, WF, WCF, OOP and Patterns, ASP.NET, Scrum,... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 This is also from an internal mail to SilverKey Tech Egypt office dev. team. Slightly modified this time! (Yes, I know. I should stop this habit of link collection and get back to writing - hopefully soon) ... Link List: jQuery, WF, WCF, OOP and Patterns, ASP.NET, Scrum,... 0 0 0
ASP.NET MVC - opinions? Andrew Siemer - www.andrewsiemer.com, January 1, 0001 Hello all! I find myself looking at design patterns to see if there is anything new floating about. Of course the new MVC framework keeps popping up everywhere. While I have been aware that MS released ... ASP.NET MVC - opinions? 0 0 1
Link List: Language Topics, Data Service, jQuery,F#, Spec#, Specs... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 It all started with an email Mohamed Hossam (AKA, Bashmohandes) sent to SilverKey Tech. (the company I work for) local office here in Egypt, referring to the article "Foundations of Functional Programming ... Link List: Language Topics, Data Service, jQuery,F#, Spec#, Specs... 0 0 0
Microsoft Enterprise Library - Using Design Patterns and Best Pra... BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Article in the MOSS and Office 2007 blog on use of Microsoft Enterprise Library and associated design patterns ... Microsoft Enterprise Library - Using Design Patterns and Best Pra... 0 0 0
SOA Design Patterns book: public review now in progress, your inp... Brian Loesgen, January 1, 0001 For the past year or so I have had the pleasure and honor of working with Thomas Erl on a couple of forthcoming SOA/ESB books (I'll post more details when we get closer -- soon I hope!), that are part ... SOA Design Patterns book: public review now in progress, your inp... 0 0 0
WSSF Version 2 Prasanna Krishnan, January 1, 0001 The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps Architects to enforce / streamline ... WSSF Version 2 0 0 0
Generic BizTalk Patterns: Message Broker with Dynamic Transformat... Paul Petrov, January 1, 0001 This time we'll combine loosely-typed BizTalk messaging concept with dynamic mapping to create generic transformation orchestration. Then we'll add it to the message broker created in the first article ... Generic BizTalk Patterns: Message Broker with Dynamic Transformat... 0 0 6
Challenges in Higher Learning And Software as an Art Form Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 I was perusing Joel Splosky's blog the other day and ran across the post about Undergraduate Programming. Seeing as how, when I find the time, I'm trying to go back for my Masters degree. It's my goal ... Challenges in Higher Learning And Software as an Art Form 0 0 0
New Book - .NET Domain-Driven Design with C# Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 No, I haven't written a book, well, not just yet. Anyhow, so far in the Domain Driven Design world, we have a few references of how to do Domain Driven Design. These books are an invaluable resource for ... New Book - .NET Domain-Driven Design with C# 0 0 1
DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/15/2008 Reminder Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 For those who missed it, our DC ALT.NET group will meet on January 15th at 7PM. I'm hoping for a great turnout of passionate developers in the DC Metro area. Hope you can make it. Also, don't forget to ... DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/15/2008 Reminder 0 0 0
Scared of Complex Technologies? Embrace Them! Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Many people seem to be intimidated by some of the most exciting programming features in DotNet. Reflection comes to mind. I once did a little client training and on the first day was lectured about this ... Scared of Complex Technologies? Embrace Them! 0 0 1
Motivating Developers Jonathan Starr, January 1, 0001 I was just reading Jeff Atwood's post - The Magpie Developer - where he uses the metaphor of the magpie who collects shiny objects for his nest to explain why elite programmers go from one programming ... Motivating Developers 0 0 2
DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/15/2008 Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 We are announcing our second meeting of DC ALT.NET on January 15th at 7PM. The meeting this month will bring ALT.NET to CMAP. Are you a developer who always keeps an eye out for a better way? Do you look ... DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/15/2008 0 0 0
Design patterns - Part 4-Builder Pattern in .NET Dheeman Dutta, January 1, 0001 Object creation as you might remember was done using the Factory Pattern (as mentioned in an blog previously “Design patterns - Part 1-Factory Pattern in .NET”. But not always creating involves a single ... Design patterns - Part 4-Builder Pattern in .NET 0 0 1
Starting Junior Programmers on the Right Agile Track Guidance Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Part of my job is not only to design and implement solutions for my customers, but also to make my customer's developers stronger as well. During these customer engagements, there are many times when junior ... Starting Junior Programmers on the Right Agile Track Guidance 0 0 1
What's on your tech shelf? Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 With the new year, I did some reorganizing. I got a little 3 shelf book case, stuck it next to my desk and pulled some of my tech books out of the garage... finally. Top shelf is all game programming books: ... What's on your tech shelf? 0 0 5
Domain Driven Design Videos & Podcasts & Links Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 For those like me interested in Domain Driven Design (DDD), I have worked to compile a list of videos and podcasts to learn more about it. For those unfamiliar with DDD, the idea was founded by Eric Evans ... Domain Driven Design Videos & Podcasts & Links 0 0 3
Philly.net Code Camp KenL, January 1, 0001 I just signed up the Philly.net Code camp. Did you? There are only 400 seats available! Here are the details: Our first installment of the 2008 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus ... Philly.net Code Camp 0 0 1
Philly Code Camp and ALT.NET Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Philly.NET has recently announced the upcoming Code Camp on Jaunary 12th. As you may notice, Brian Donahue of Philly ALT.NET is leading the ALT.NET track which is shaping up to be quite good. Below are ... Philly Code Camp and ALT.NET 0 0 1
Nested Ananymous function - real world sample Blog Author, January 1, 0001 its been since few of my friends were behind me for Nested ananymous functions real life sample, due to busy consulting hours and work pressure, i couldnt post this. here u go guys .............. copy ... Nested Ananymous function - real world sample 0 0 1
dotNETwork, 1st Big Offline User Group in Egypt -Or- SQL 2008 + M... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 Last Tuesday night witnessed a relatively new kind event held in Microsoft Egypt building @ smart village. It was said to be "announcing dotNETwork user group" which I thought was some Microsoft Egypt ... dotNETwork, 1st Big Offline User Group in Egypt -Or- SQL 2008 + M... 0 0 1
What about PowerShell? Marc Schuricht, January 1, 0001 More on MOSS... In order to build our MOSS application we have decided to make the application as loosly-coupled from SharePoint as possible primarily because of the performance problems trying to develop ... What about PowerShell? 0 0 2
Dev Teach Day 4 - David Laribee: Fundamental Domain Driven Design D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Today was my crash day. I slept until noon today, not from an alcohol induced stupor but just from a crazy fire-hose-drinking, shindig-happening, information overloading weekend (which *may* have included ... Dev Teach Day 4 - David Laribee: Fundamental Domain Driven Design 0 0 0
Critique of Paul Graham's Essay "How to Do Philosophy" Jonathan Starr, January 1, 0001 I was just reading through Paul Graham's article on "How to Do Philosophy" (http://www.paulgraham.com/... He mentions that philosophy has twisted in the wind for a while because so many smart ... Critique of Paul Graham's Essay "How to Do Philosophy" 0 0 0
Decoration Jason Franks, January 1, 0001 Been involved in a discussion about what 'elegant code' means lately. I'll try not to get too C++-specific, but that's what I spend most of my days working in and I'm sure that will show. Elegant solutions ... Decoration 0 0 1
Starting at Reuters - Very Excited Jonathan Starr, January 1, 0001 I noticed that Bill Evjen ( http://geekswithblogs.net/e... ) and Kevin Grossnicklaus ( http://geekswithblogs.net/k... ) had started blogs, and they are very prominent ... Starting at Reuters - Very Excited 0 0 0
Guidance Development Tools Jim Lavin, January 1, 0001 Guidance includes so many different types of documents; Help, How-Tos, FAQs, Checklists, Code Examples, Design Patterns, and Guidelines to name just a few that coming up with a standard way to develop ... Guidance Development Tools 0 0 2
Ruby soon (Well, maybe!) - What are the chances anyway? Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 Since Rails, everybody has turned to see what Ruby looks like, why was it the language that had such a great framework built in top of. For most .NET developers including me, that wasn't so easy, while ... Ruby soon (Well, maybe!) - What are the chances anyway? 0 0 0
The August 2007 Caffeinated Codey Winners are... Russell Ball, January 1, 0001 Welcome to the 2nd installment of the monthly Caffeinated Codey awards. As I mentioned in the first installment, the lucky winners will receive a caffeinated or alcoholic beverage of their choice if we ... The August 2007 Caffeinated Codey Winners are... 0 0 3
The Model View Presenter pattern and Unit testing the Presenter. Kurt Claeys, January 1, 0001 By using the MVP (model-view-presenter) pattern you create a clean separation between the code in eventhandlers of UI components and the business related logic behind the UI. It creates a loose coupling ... The Model View Presenter pattern and Unit testing the Presenter. 0 0 4
Activities this summer Kurt Claeys, January 1, 0001 End of the summer. It was a rainy 'Belgian' summer. Been busy ... Time for some reflection about what I did the last couple of months and where i've been. - Attended WCF Master Class by Juval Lowy in London ... Activities this summer 0 0 0