C# 6 Feature Review: Expression-Bodied Function Members 17 December, 2015. It was a Thursday. In the last post, I looked at auto-property enhancements, with several comments pointing out some nicer ...

24 May, 2011. It was a Tuesday. I’ve built a few dozen security mechanisms in my career. Unfortunately, I kept getting it wrong, hence the need to keep building them. Over the years, though, I learned ...

Enumeration classes 12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the ...

23 January, 2009. It was a Friday. In Domain-Driven Design, creating a rich domain model in code is essential for capturing the richness and complexity of the real-world domain. These domain models, ...

IDisposable, Done Right 29 November, 2012. It was a Thursday. IDisposable is a standard interface in the .NET framework that facilitates the deterministic release of unmanaged resources. Since the ...

3 September, 2010. It was a Friday. Moving from subversion to git can be a struggle, trying to understand what terms like checkout, commit, branch, remote, rebase all mean in the git world. I learned ...

18 September, 2009. It was a Friday. I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me ...

Saga implementation patterns – Controller 14 March, 2013. It was a Thursday. In the previous post on saga implementation patterns, we looked at the Observer pattern.In that pattern, the saga was a ...

FluentMigrator getting started 2 April, 2011. It was a Saturday. I realized on the fluent migrator mailing list today that even though it’s been around for nearly two years, I’ve never written any ...

It isn’t hard to imagine how this approach was conceived given it closely mirrors the typical implementation of the DbContext instance you find in Entity Framework guidance where public instances of ...

JavaScript File & Folder Structures: Just Pick One 2 February, 2012. It was a Thursday. Rails wants you to put specific files in specific folder structures, based on the object type that will be in ...

11 February, 2009. It was a Wednesday. I found the Motivator this morning. It lets you create your own motivational pictures. So, here’s my first run at creating the SOLID software development ...