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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dependency Injection Is NOT The Same As The Dependency Inversion Principle 22 September, 2011. It was a Thursday. A long time ago, when I first started blogging with LosTechies, I wrote up a few posts ...

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 ...

In this example, the first view is triggering an event when a DOM element is clicked. The event is triggered through Backbone’s built-in event aggregator – the Backbone object. Of course, it’s trivial ...

Tackling cross-cutting concerns with a mediator pipeline 9 September, 2014. It was a Tuesday. Originally posted on the Skills Matter website. In most of the projects I’ve worked on in the last several ...

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 ...

22 November, 2011. It was a Tuesday. There’s an unfortunate dichotomy of “Backbone vs Knockout” floating around these days. It’s mostly in the .NET space where Knockout tends to get the most attention ...