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Waterfall development just work as great

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:41:10 GMT

Waterfall development is still a valid way to develop software. Setting up the requirements, making proper analysis, coding and then testing works just as fine. However. not for ever changing software like a website. If I were to build an e-Commerce website, I would never choose to go Waterfall.

Anti-Pattern: Anemic Domain Model

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:53:40 GMT

Here is an anti-pattern Martin Fowler will agree with. In fact, it's Martin Fowler that first described this anti-pattern in November 2003. Like Fowler said, it looks like a model, it smells like a model but there is no behaviour inside. The basic symptom of an Anemic Domain Model is that at first blush it looks like the real thing.

Stop using those stupid Model example

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:29:44 GMT

Stop using Circle/Square/Rectangle, People/Employee, Car/Model examples for models or example on how to use Object-Oriented Principles or any example at all. There is plenty of "Open" model that you can use. Here's a simple list for those who needs inspiration.

Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder attribute

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC action methods can be developed using regular method parameters. In earlier versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework, these parameters were all simple types like integers, strings, booleans, . When required, a method parameter can be a complex type like a Contact with Name, Email and Message properties. This blog post shows you how to use the ModelBinder attribute which allows ASP.NET MVC action methods to accept complex types.

The Oncoming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC with Some LINQ Tossed In - Part 2

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:05:31 GMT

In the <a href="http://adronbhall.com/blogs/technology__software_development/archive/2007/12/25/6062.aspx" target="_blank">first part of this series</a> I went over how to create a basic skeleton of controllers and models so that we could create a mock test and get it green lighted along with some other tests for getting the basic navigation methods tested and green lighted.  In this part of the series I'm going to go over the model from a LINQ point of view.  After that in subsequent parts of this series I'll start building out the views, utilizing of course a test driven development process.  So no more blabbering, let's code.

How to Write a Provider Model

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:46:02 GMT

In this article Keyvan teaches you how to write your own data provider for .NET applications using the provider model.

Concurrent Affairs: Async additions to C#

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:42:04 GMT

My man-crush, Jeffrey Richter (of CLR Via C# fame) writes in the November issue of MSDN magazine about some of the recent additions to C# that makes the async programming model easier, plus other stuff.