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Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:47:43 GMT

A blog post that should be able to get people motivated to start working for the right reasons again.

The Dark Side Of Declaritive DataBinding

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:25:01 GMT

The first article in a series that will discuss the pitfalls of the traditional declaritive databinding approaches that are touted at many demos/presentations etc. Over the course of the series, techniques and practices will be introduced to allow for more confidence and robustness in your databinding scenarios.

Handling Dynamic Business Rules

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:05:01 GMT

Short intro, that discusses the topic of how to manage business rules that can change in the domain layer.

Validation In The Domain Layer - Take Two

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:57:01 GMT

A continuation on how to perform validation in the domain layer. This article discusses moving validation onto a layer supertype, so that all domain objects have validation at their disposal.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 8 (CruiseControl)

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:17:01 GMT

Ever wondered how to go about setting up a repository and a cruise control installation to automate the building of your project? Check out this commercial-free, 1hr screencast that demonstrates from start to finish, how you place your code under version control and how you can get an automated build process working with Cruise Control .Net.

The IHttpHandler and IHttpModule Interfaces

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:21:01 GMT

Take a look at how you can utlize these powerful, yet highly underused interfaces to solve problems that people often solve by unecessarily building full blown web pages.

Unlock files/folders with ease

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:45:02 GMT

Ever been developing a web app, and you wanted to delete a folder but you couldn't because some process had a lock on it. Instead of hunting down and manually trying to determine what process is maintaining the lock; you can utilize Unlocker to remove the lock for you without any guessing required!!

Applied Test Driven Development For Web Applications - Part 1

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:09:01 GMT

In this series of articles you will learn about how to go about practically applying Test Driven Development to the creation of a moderately complex web application. During the process you will learn all sorts of new and interesting techniques that you can take with you and apply to the development of your own web applications.

Enhancing Images using the Decorator Design Pattern

Sat, 27 May 2006 09:33:01 GMT

Ever looked for a practical, meaningful use for the decorator pattern. This article will show how you apply the Decorator pattern to change the look of images at runtime.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 7

Fri, 26 May 2006 12:57:01 GMT

Learn how to use NAnt to automate the deployment of an ASP.Net web application.

Handling Drop Down Lists in Web Pages With Model View Presenter

Thu, 25 May 2006 15:13:01 GMT

Take a look at the way that drop down lists in web pages can be manipulated and controlled from outside of the code behind files, using the model view presenter pattern. Source code included.

TDD By Example - Money

Thu, 25 May 2006 07:17:01 GMT

Learn how to use TDD to drive out a simple scenario. Creating a custom type to encapsulate money. If you find yourself using decimals a lot to represent money in your application, then get started building a first class type that encapsulates the rules for you. In the process, learn how using TDD can help you drive out the functionality in small testable pieces.

Validation In The Domain Layer - Take One

Thu, 25 May 2006 20:53:01 GMT

Take a look at one strategy for performing rich validation in the domain layer of your application. And learn how effective use of generics and dependency injection can provide you with flexible validation scenarios that can be context based.

NAnt Starter Series

Thu, 25 May 2006 00:17:01 GMT

A series of articles that will walk you through the layout of your project directory, compiling your projects and test projects with NAnt, as well as dealing with multi-developer scenarios (regarding databases).

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 6

Fri, 26 May 2006 14:05:01 GMT

Learn interesting ways to deal with the database in a multi-developer, continuous integration environment. You will learn how to be able to quickly rebuild the database from the command line, as well as deal correctly with managing scripts between mulitple developers with differering machine configurations.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 5

Fri, 26 May 2006 20:53:01 GMT

Learn how to automate the running of unit tests against your application so that you can get quick feedback regarding the health of the codebase.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 4

Fri, 26 May 2006 22:01:01 GMT

In this article you will learn about separating test dll compilation from production dll compilation.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 3

Fri, 26 May 2006 23:09:01 GMT

In this article you will learn how to compile your VS2005 projects using NAnt. This can be a huge time saver vs. waiting for long compile times inside studio when projects get bigger.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 2

Fri, 26 May 2006 15:13:01 GMT

In the last article, the focus was on a proposed structure for the base directory. We move on now to talk about creating a build staging area as well as actually using NAnt and creating our first build targets.

Automating Your Builds With NAnt - Part 1

Thu, 25 May 2006 01:25:01 GMT

Ever wondered how to get started with NAnt? Thinking about a good directory structure that will support and automated build process nicely. Take a look at this article that will get you started thinking about how NAnt can help streamline your build process.