Just wanted to let everyone know that the screencast for Session 02 of the Summer of NHibernate series has now been posted for download (see below). For more details on […]
I am pleased to announce that the first installment of the Summer NHibernate screencast series is finally available for download! This first session covers the basic setup and usage patterns […]
My company makes extensive use of the NHibernate O/R Mapper technology in many of our solutions and we sometimes hire new developers that have good skills and experience but who […]
What I'm Reading Elisabeth Freeman: Head First Design Patterns (Head First) Joshua Kerievsky: Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Gerard Meszaros: xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code (The Addison-Wesley […]
Lately I have been giving some thought to just what exactly the guiding principles are behind the way I both approach and execute my professional software development career. After considering […]
At my current organization, we have been having a number of debates over the past 6-8 months about the relative benefits of writing unit tests for our code. The opponents […]
While reasonable people can choose to disagree about the value of in-line code comments for the sake of describing what the code is actually doing — many take the opinion […]
As a convenience, here is a quick summary of the prior posts that cover the ‘Inside the Sausage Factory’ series to-date. As this covers the initial refinement of features, design of […]
In my last three posts (here, here, and here) I documented the slight detours I took to address some perceived shortcomings in two of my tools-of-choice for the SkillPortal Project: CIFactory […]
In my last post, I talked about the second part of the detour that derailed (albeit only temporarily) my progress on the SkillPortal project. The first part of the detour […]