DotNetKicks.com : Stories kicked by danielmolina

No, inheritance is not the way to achieve code reuse!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:01:03 GMT

I am not sure how so many people go through so many years of school, which is supposed to make us better at thinking, and they fail to differentiate the "why" and the "how". During interviews, when I ask their opinion about the purpose of inheritance in OOP, invariably I get this precooked answer (not so nicely expressed): inheritance is the way to achieve code reuse. No it is not!

Skinning the Cat with Fluent NHibernate

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:01:02 GMT

As you may have noticed, I have become interested in the concept of Object Relational Mapping and the NHibernate framework. One of the more painful/tedious aspects of using NHibernate is hand writing the xml mapping files. That is why I got excited when I heard that Jeremy Miller was open sourcing his mapping generation libraries.

IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:16:12 GMT

For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and host it on github.

Why I'm Unimpressed With Rawness Of Skillz

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants.

How To Access A WPF Control Which Is Located In A DataTemplate

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:16:04 GMT

Ever tryed to programatically change something in a WPF control that is in a DataTemplate? not so easy, here is how to do it

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

Learning how to resolve conflicts within Subversion (SVN) using Tortoi

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:31:14 GMT

Learning how to resolve conflicts within Subversion (SVN) using TortoiseSVN

Multilingual OCR

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:46:06 GMT

The challenges of accommodating multilingual OCR engines - and what does "multilingual" really mean anyway when it comes to technical implementation?

Managed C++ and IDisposable

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01:10 GMT

Quick fix for IDisposable compiler error

Log4PostSharp - logging with AOP

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:31:03 GMT

How to inject log4net logging code using PostSharp and Log4PostSharp. Shows you how to add logging to an application with a minimum of effort!

A Practical Review of ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:31:02 GMT

My big project for the summer has been the creation of a content management system for my job. Due to deployment restrictions, I was forced to use the .NET platform for development. After hearing rumors of .NET running Rails via IronRuby, I jumped at the chance to write a Rails application that could be deployed to IIS on Windows. However, after getting a prototype running, I discovered that this would be infeasible for the time table I was looking at. IronRuby simply would not be ready on time. My second choice, then, was the new ASP.NET MVC framework.

C# Search: The .NET Developer's Search Engine

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:31:14 GMT

C# Search is a new .NET search site, powered by Google, which allows developers to further refine their search on anything related to .NET.

Visual Studio .NET Platform Target Explained

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:46:13 GMT

This article discusses the meaning of the Platform Target setting for Visual Studio projects and gives some tips and links that will be helpful when migrating to 64-bit processing.

The Dark Side of LINQ

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:46:03 GMT

I've been having mixed feeling for quite some time now regarding LINQ. Sure it can make working with data sources a lot easier and it can definately save a lot of code but it also has the potential of creating cryptic complex code...

LINQ to SQL - Am I Hitting The Database?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:16:09 GMT

Like most other developers who have been using LINQ for a while (and in this particular case, LINQ to SQL) - I've unknowingly made a few 'bad queries' that performed great at first, but eventually made some pages crawl. This post isn't necessarily about performance, but if you don't know how to answer that question ("am I hitting the database"), then you'll likely find yourself in a world of problems down the road when you're using LINQ to SQL.

How to Send Trackbacks and Pingbacks in ASP.NET

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:31:02 GMT

This is an excellent article from Keyvan Nayyeri showing how to create trackbacks and pingbacks in ASP.NET.