Community Reality Check: Is INETA a concrete life raft? (lostechies.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 3 years, 9 months ago

As an attempt to continually improve my contributions to the community, I'm trying to determine the value I'm generating through the volunteering of my time. What, dear reader, would you say is INETA's place in today's ever changing world of .NET? read more...

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Screencast: Test-Driven Domain Model(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 7 months ago

This TDD screencast was created after having the same conversation over and over again. It boils down to the topic of whether people can actually write their unit tests before writing their code. With this screencast, I wanted to illustrate that it's not only possible, but that it's also highly productive (once you get the tooling right). read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by ashmind(775) 4 years, 7 months ago

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu. read more...

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Who will champion the health of the business? (evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 9 months ago

Let me tell you a fictitious story. Ok, so it's not fictitious, but I swear I've never seen it happen where *I* work. It's a story of an enterprise losing a whole lot of money.. read more...

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MS Patterns and Practices to Become Test-Infected? (evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 9 months ago

First, it seems that Grigori Melnik is taking over for Tom Hollander, the "father of EntLib", over at Microsoft Patterns and Practices. While that may not catch your attention, you might want to take a look at the current issue of IEEE's Software magazine. It has a broad focus on test-driven development. Look a little closer, and you will find an article written by Ron Jeffries and Grigori Melnik, TDD--The Art of Fearless Programming... read more...

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Inheritance vs Object Composition (evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 10 months ago

If you pick a developer off the street and ask him what inheritance is, he will more than likely give you the correct answer. If you take that same developer and ask him what object composition is, he may give you a puzzled look and shrug his shoulders. read more...

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Google Scalability Conference (weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 10 months ago

Some of the sessions from Google scalability conference are now available on Google Video. read more...

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DevLink 2007: A world-class conference you can afford(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 10 months ago

Seriously, huge name speakers, food, and all the other stuff you get at the big ones, but for only $50. Located in Nashville, it's a short plane flight from almost anywhere. read more...

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Some Groundrules for Interfaces(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 10 months ago

A few groundrules for using interfaces in your code can help maintainability go a long way. read more...

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Unit of Work for Webservices(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 10 months ago

Here is a simple implementation of the Unit of Work pattern for webservices.. read more...

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Frameworks are Hard(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 4 years, 11 months ago

Building a tool is easy. Building a good framework is hard. I've seen the terms used interchangeably in a lot of places, but I think the subtle difference can be seen if you look closely. It's not exactly an earth shattering idea, but it's a cool thought nevertheless. read more...

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SOA, Change, Agility and Reuse(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 5 years ago

On every major paradigm shift, from object-oriented programming, component-oriented programing, service-oriented programming, etc, reusability and composability have been driving factors. Yet, the often touted killer concept of stringing the reusable things (components, objects, services) together in an ad-hoc fashion has never materialized. read more...

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The Consumer Owns the Contract(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 5 years ago

The little architecture secret behind test-driven development, design by contract, packaging, web services, and a host of other techniques and technologies. Learn once, apply everywhere. read more...

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Orthogonal Platform Upgrades(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 5 years ago

A short note on the differences an agile approach can make to platform upgrades. read more...

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Learn C# 4.0(evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 5 years ago

Want to get a head start on the rest of the .NET developers out there? Start learning how to use C# 4.0 today. How, you ask, can I learn to use C# 4.0 when 3.0 isn't even out yet? read more...

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Separating the Query from the Gateway (evanhoff.com)

submitted by ehoff(980) 5 years ago

A simple, but effective way to improve the data access layer in your application. read more...

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