My good friend and fellow plumber, John Bristowe, is on the road again, this time with the third installment of Microsoft Canada’s DNIC Tour. He’ll be in Calgary talking about how to incorporate the .NET Framework into your existing applications. Date: Thursday, September 27, 2007 from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Location: Nexen Conference Centre […]
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I was recently asked, “What is the real story behind the name of C#?” Let’s take a quick stroll down memory lane and on the way we’ll answer that question… In the beginning – around 1997 – there was Project Lightning. I was also known as Project 42 because DevDiv (Microsoft’s Developer Division) lived (and still […]
Thanks to everyone who came out for the session to listen to tales of the NHibernate Mafia and how persistence ignorance can improve your domain model. Here is a list of recommended resources: NHibernate NHibernate Plugin Castle Active Record Active Writer Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson You can download […]
The website is now live and accepting registrations. We’re accepting 100 lucky participants to take part in this unique event. Sign up now at http://www.altnetconf.com. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back and read this. Hope to see you there!!!
Coming to an Edmonton library near you… One night only… How does NHibernate enable a persistence ignorant domain model? Why would you want a persistence ignorant domain model? Why does the NHibernate Mafia feel so strongly about persistence ignorant domain models? And who are the NHibernate Mafia anyway? This session will answer all these questions and […]
Coming to Austin, TX… October 5-7, 2007… Brought to you by the NHibernate Mafia themselves… 3 days of ALT.NET mayhem… See behaviours twisted, tests tortured, dependencies injected, object-relations mapped, and DSLs like you’ve never seen them before… More seriously, what exactly is ALT.NET? David Laribee coined the term to describe developers who look outside the “official […]
Thanks to everyone for attending Simple Patterns for Simple Problems last week. Source code – before and after – can be found here.* The “after” source is where we left off. The additional Utility methods are left as an exercise for you, dear reader. If you have any suggestions on how to improve this presentation in […]
After my presentation yesterday on Simple Patterns for Simple Problems, John Bristowe, a fellow plumber (and closet agilist), interviewed me about agile development on the .NET platform. We talked about why developers should be interested in learning more about agile development techniques, including unit testing, TDD, code coverage, continuous integration, and more. Check it out: A Chat with […]
I know C# quite well and thought I knew all the language features, both old, new, and forthcoming. Today I was completely surprised when I discovered a feature that has existed since C# 1.0 that I never knew about… String literals in C# can span multiple source lines! My voyage to discovery started when reading […]
My MSDN Magazine article entitled Debug Leaky Apps: Identify and Prevent Memory Leaks in Managed Code has been published in the January 2007 issue. Go check it out! Due to space constraints, the editors at MSDN Magazine left a few acknowledgements on the cutting room floor. I would like to acknowledge Rico Mariani (MS) for coining […]
