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 other day I received some feedback on the way the Domain Model in the Autumn of Agile series is shaping up. The relevant parts of the e-mailed comments are as follows…
I am a little confused about where to put the business rules. Into model objects or in a higher level layer (such as a [...]
In this comment to one of my posts, Ryan asks…
Can you give any insight as to what life would be like, if I decided to migrate away from Guids as my IDs to Ints?
Sure: it would look exactly the same except your entities would derive from IntIdentityPersistenceBase instead of GuidIdentityPersistenceBase
Seriously though, this a great [...]
I’m happy to report that the latest installment in the Autumn of Agile screencast series is now available for immediate download from the main site.
Refactoring to Eliminate Technical Debt
In this screencast, we take some time to do some (minor) refactorings to start to pay down some technical debt that we’ve started to incur in the [...]
As of now, I’m happy to announce that the next installment of the Autumn of Agile Screencast series is available for download and viewing from the main site.
WARNING: Length is still an issue!
Despite my best efforts to contain the length of these things, this one has now set a brand new (personal) record for length: [...]
Sorry for the delay, but I’m happy to announce that as of now the code samples for both PART A and PART B of the Iteration 01 installments for the Autumn of Agile screencasts have now been posted to the main site for download.
As the first several installments contained no code, I got out of [...]
I am pleased to announce that after a slightly unexpected delay, the next installment in the Autumn Of Agile screencast series is now available for immediate download from the main site. I had a bit of trouble trying to determine the best way to compose this installment given that there is both a) a lot [...]
As promised, here are the preparation materials for the upcoming next installment in the Autumn of Agile screencast series.
In this installment, we will be looking at completing our first User Story (User can associate self with one or more skills) by creating our first ASP.NET MVC page, wiring up ASP.NET MVC to take advantage of [...]
I am pleased to announce that the next installment in the Autumn Of Agile screencast series is now available for immediate download from the main web site.
Good news, Bad news
The good news is that this is the installment where we finally start to write some code! The bad news is that this installment clocks [...]
Like clockwork, the leaves fall from the trees and the next installment of the Autumn of Agile screencast must come as well. Next week’s installment will bring us our first actual coding (at last ) and introduce us to the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD), one of the core practices that goes to the [...]
