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 [...]
After a brief hiatus to catch my breath following the conclusion of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series, I am pleased to announce that the initial installment of my next screencast series is now available for immediate download from a brand new (but just as butt-ugly ) dedicated site: www.AutumnOfAgile.net.
Iteration -1 ????
This first installment is [...]
The next ALT.NET NYC user group meeting is Wednesday October 22, 2008 and the discussion topic will be Agile Project Management. Our group is off to a great start with a tremendous turn-out for the first meeting in late-September at Microsoft’s offices in Midtown Manhattan where we had a solid 30-40 attendees.
I want to give [...]
Summer of NHibernate Feedback: this isn’t real!
During my production of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series, I have routinely received questions from viewers that tend to want me to dig into more real-world issues that come into play in the development of a non-demo/non-sample application. Since the focus of the code samples in the NHibernate [...]
Question:
How do you know nowadays that something in developer technology has been perverted completely beyond its initial intent into something horribly disfigured and unrecognizable to its original authors?
Answer:
When people start to feel the need to put the phrase "Plain-Old-" in front of it.
Whether POJO (Plain-Old-Java-Objects), POCO (Plain-Old-C#-Objects or Plain-Old-CLR-Objects for the VB-heads out [...]
I had the opportunity early last week to attend the VSLive! New York .NET Developer conference from 9/8 thru 9/10 and I learned quite a bit from my attendance. For context, the following is the list of talks that I chose to attend…
Monday
Best Practices in ASP.NET 2.0/3.5: defending yourself from worst practices by Richard Hale [...]
Come and be there at the start of something special! The inaugural meeting of the New York City ALT.NET User Group will be held Thursday, September 25th, 2008 @ 6:30pm.
Are you passionate about the profession of Software Engineering, always looking for new learning experiences, stimulated by engaging in conversation with peers who challenge your [...]
In this recent post of mine I made reference to the fact that I routinely consume a number of tech/dev-related podcasts each week while walking my dog every day. A reader has asked for a list of the podcasts to which I subscribe and I was starting to provide a list when I decided to [...]
Ever since I started the Summer of NHibernate Screencast series I have received periodic e-mail from various viewers wondering just what level of effort goes into producing these videos. In response, I thought I ‘d put together this blog post that outlines my process both for composing the whole series as well as for constructing [...]
The next installment of the Summer of NHibernate Screencast series is now available for general download!
In this session we explore the NHibernate SchemaExport class and start to exercise its ability to generate our database schema directly from our hbm.xml mapping files. In addition, we touch briefly on some of the relative advantages of DDD (Domain [...]
