I just gave a talk at last week’s ALT.NET NYC user group introducing Domain Driven Design (DDD) as a pattern language and included in there was a slide expressing my opinion “Once: its a fluke, twice: its a coincidence, three times: its a pattern” intended to posit the idea that patterns evolve from our observations [...]
I usually refrain from making posts that just end up referencing the work of others, but while looking for something else I just came across two blog posts from late-November of 2008 where Davy Brion goes into some detail about how to use stored procedures with NHibernate to both retrieve and instantiate a mostly-flat object [...]
As a follow-up to my Test-Driven Development presentation at the 2009 NYC CodeCamp last weekend, I wanted to let everyone interested know that I have now posted the screencast recordings for the session for download by anyone interested.
Several Formats
As anyone who was there will know, we got somewhat sidetracked in the presentation by discussions about [...]
If you’re one of the two people who closely follow my blog here, you will probably have noticed that starting mid-afternoon yesterday and leading into the early evening (all times GMT-5) my blog’s comments were successfully spammed by someone offering a mix of chances to win things at an online casino of your choice, opportunities [...]
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at the NYC CodeCamp this morning! Even though I couldn’t get through my entire presentation/demo, the questions that came up made the digressions worthwhile for all, I hope.
As promised, here are the resources that made up the presentation materials…
Powerpoint 2003-format of the slidedeck…
NYC_CodeCamp_2009_TDD_Presentation_PowerPoint.zip
Code Download (showing what would have [...]
As I type this post, NYC is preparing for what looks to be anywhere from zero to six inches of snow starting at around mid-day Saturday (depending on whom you believe).
Note: the photo at left is NOT real-time, its one I found on the Internet from some storm that happened in 2007 that has [...]
As 2008 comes to an end and 2009 starts to ramp up, I thought it might be interesting (for me at least!) to look back at some of the important events and changes in 2008 that have most impacted my professional life as a software developer.
The Year of Community
If I had to sum-up what 2008 [...]
The semi-confirmed schedule for the 2009 NYC CodeCamp has just been published at http://nyc.codecamp.us/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/12/31/code-camp-session-schedule.aspx. Even if the schedule changes ever-so-slightly between now and 1/10/2009, the actual sessions are pretty much locked-in at this point so the schedule gives a pretty good sense of the topics that will be covered and who’s covering them (myself included).
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