I’m happy to announce that the first installment of my five-part screencast series on the S.O.L.I.D. object-oriented design principles, Refactoring to a S.O.L.I.D. Foundation, has just been posted to the DimeCasts.NET website for download or direct viewing.
In this series of short, 10 minute screencasts I will be applying each of the S.O.L.I.D. principles one by [...]
For those of you who are long-time followers of my blog, you are probably aware that as long ago as this post from October of 2007 (originally from my blog’s former home on the Microsoft Live! Spaces site but since ported over here so I wouldn’t lose it when I declared my independence from Live! [...]
Last month I was listening to a recent installment of the always-excellent Software Engineering Radio podcast where the topic was ‘Performance Engineering’. One of the points that the guest in that installment was making was that he has been involved in many projects where the process of ‘performance engineering’ (the act of gathering performance metrics, [...]
This is a transcript I excerpted from a discussion session video that I just watched where Bob Martin addressed the Chicago ALT.NET user group where he is describing the rationale behind TDD in the context of understanding how truly brittle our work products really are.
This is a short read, but everyone is encouraged to think [...]
If you either attended the January 2009 CodeCamp event in NYC or wanted to and were scared away by the impending weather doom (which never materialized) or were simply too remote to consider the trip, the entire collection of everyone’s presentation materials was just posted last evening to the NYC CodeCamp Site for download.
If you’re [...]
In case you are interested in following along and couldn’t attend our recent January 2009 ALT.NET NYC user group meeting on Domain Driven Design, one of my fellow group organizers (Alex Hung) has just posted the full videos to VIMEO for general viewing.
In addition to our regular attendees, this time our group was also joined [...]
I just finished watching the Similarities Between Interaction Designers and Agile Programmers interview with Alan Cooper from the Agile 2008 conference posted on InfoQ and I absolutely have to recommend that anyone serious about software engineering in general and Agile in particular take the 45 minutes out of your day or evening to watch this.
In [...]
A week or so ago a regular reader of my blog and viewer of my screencasts was having a challenging time with what turned out to be a variant of one of my all-time least-favorite problems: open-source-assembly-version-hell.
Using GMAIL chat, after a time I was able to pin down his troubles and guide him to a [...]
