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José F. Romaniello: Caliburn.ModelFramework with only one interceptor

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:54 GMT

Implementation of Caliburn.ModelFramework with a castle dynamicproxy interceptor.

Zen is Live!

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:02 GMT

Zen, the lean project management tool, is now open to the public!

José F. Romaniello: INotifyPropertyChanged as AOP

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:19:31 GMT

The purpose of this post is to demonstrate several ways that to use INotifyPropertyChanged as an AOP aspect in your business entities. I will use DynamicProxy for AOP and NHibernate as orm mapper. Althought all methods can be plugged into nhibernate using tuplizer, I will skip this part until the final solution.

Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:31:02 GMT

CodeBetter - in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us - is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com - a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs of the server farm and providing a TeamCity Enterprise license. Volunteers from CodeBetter, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us are administering the servers and setting up OSS projects on the build grid.

Understand closures with JavaScript

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:46:04 GMT

Closures are a programming concept that can be a bit intimidating but it shouldn't be this way. Hopefully this short article can clarify how that works and how to avoid problems when using it.

UX patterns vs UI patterns

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:50:36 GMT

Distinction between UX and UI

An Essential Tip for Working With XAML

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:56:08 GMT

This is actually a couple of great tips for XAML editing in Visual Studio.

On Oxite

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:58:32 GMT

Excellent comments from Glen Block on Oxite, great quote: "...if you want to develop something that will be useful to the community as guidance, don't built it behind closed doors, build it WITH the community. Don't tell them it's good guidance, let THEM tell you."

When Should I Write Tests?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:46:03 GMT

The definitive answer to a question that comes up all the time...

Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:07 GMT

Well, it is about time we (Tim, Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC book with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is framework going to be smashing success.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

Unit Testing Change Notification

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:33:50 GMT

Simplifying the way I assert change notification for properties in unit tests.

NHibernate Profiler: A guided tour

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:01:31 GMT

Ayende provides an introduction to his upcoming tools for analyzing NHibernate usage.

Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:01:12 GMT

Let's get this out of the way: I know you're going to think I'm nuts as you read this. You may "pfft" to what you're about to read - know that I know you're "pfft"-ing me. All I ask is that you consider what I'm about to suggest...

Ian talks about L2S Being killed

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:16:13 GMT

great post from Ian on the choice of EF over L2S decision from Microsoft.

Boy Scout Check-ins

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:16:02 GMT

How to leave your code campground cleaner than you found it.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

Frame-based Bitmap Animations in Silverlight

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:47:32 GMT

A quick tip for those who are animation with raster graphics in Silverlight.

Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:16:06 GMT

Unfortunately, the [OutputCache] filter that ships with ASP.NET MVC is merely a thin wrapper around ASP.NET output caching. The MVC team have explained that they're aware of the issues, but it's very difficult to make ASP.NET output caching fit into MVC's design, and they are focusing on other things first. We can quite easily create a new caching filter that captures actions' output and uses ASP.NET's data caching facility to store it for next time. This filter will fit properly into the MVC pipeline, not strangely bypassing authorization or other earlier filters (it will run at the right time in whatever ordered set of filters you've using).

Combining independent widgets on ASP.NET MVC pages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:46:02 GMT

As great as ASP.NET MVC is, it doesn't have such an easy way to set up reusable controls or "widgets". Steven Sanderson explains a technique similar to MVC Contrib's "subcontrollers", but much simpler.

Caliburn Alpha for WPF and Silverlight is here!

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:58:54 GMT

Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios.

ScottGu: Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:46:05 GMT

"This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2."

Shared Hosting and the Bleeding Edge

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:43:30 GMT

This is a good article on how to setup your site in a share hosting environment and talks about dealing with doing frindge things with your site. There are things you need to understand if you plan on setting up your ASP.NET site in a shared environment and this article goes into some very important points.

Shared Hosting & The Bleeding Edge

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:02:47 GMT

A summary of my experience getting a site up and running in a shared hosting environment using a number of bleeding-edge, open source technologies.