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Then tell us what you need! Blaine has blogged a link to a survey that patterns & practices will use to help them understand what challenges that are affecting you the most... so that they can choose the right areas to focus effort in providing guidance.
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Unobtrusive JavaScript is a concept that’s been around for quite a while, but it’s now finally starting to make its way into the mainstream. The basic idea is that you should separate your JavaScript from your HTML – so instead of; < a href ="Default.aspx"
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I don’t know if you’re the same, but when coding away I often find myself wishing for a String.Unformat function – call it the evil twin of String.Format . With String.Format I can build up strings like this; var result = String .Format( "http://{0}:{1}/{2}"
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Is this a question of taste, or something more serious? [ Warning : this post won’t change your life J ] I found myself writing the following extension method yet again the other day; public static void ForEach<T>( this IEnumerable <T> source,
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Auditing almost means something different to everyone I speak to... just a few things people mean when they say “our system has auditing” to me are; Business Operation Auditing . This is recording when a business operation is performed, such as “Hire
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During my day job I come across customers that are struggling to make a system perform to the expectations of their users, and they often see this as a SQL Server problem. This post is designed to demonstrate how much of a difference your approach to
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Have you been using the Web Client Software Factory ? Or have you tried it and not adopted it? Or have you used some of the bundle content but not the whole factory? Michael Puleio has just started a thread on codeplex requesting feedback on who is using
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I’ve been thinking for a while about how people tend to build AJAX applications, as there seems to be something a lot of people have forgotten. This post examines how applying a pattern you probably know very well to AJAX could help – and leaves it to
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“Sufficient Architecture? What does that mean?!”, I hear you say!! Bear with me. Over a beer this week I had a good conversation with a colleague about the principles of architecture and design, and as a result I feel compelled to recount something that
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Maybe I’m biased because he’s on the same team as me (ahem, sorry for the plug J ), but I really liked Stuart Leeks ’ post on improving the “Include” method on ObjectQuery<T>. It’s another example, like the MVC Framework he mentions, of how lamba
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Via Blaine’s post (that gives quite a lot of information on what is included and what their plans are), the patterns & practices Sharepoint Guidance is starting to take shape, with a drop to codeplex having arrived this week . Be sure to check it
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I am constantly surprised when speaking with people how few have heard of or use the “Service Interface” pattern. It is actually a very straightforward pattern, is very little work to use, but brings such practical, quantifiable, visible, benefits I think
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No, I’m not talking about NEANDERTHALS (there’s a joke in there somewhere), but rather a technique that a colleague of mine, Josh Twist , has recently blogged about – “ Avoiding Primitive Obsession to tip developers into the pit of success ”. I’d always
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This article is part of a series; · WCSF Application Architecture 1: Introduction · WCSF Application Architecture 2: Application Controller · WCSF Application Architecture 3: Model View Presenter · WCSF Application Architecture 4: Environment Abstraction
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This article is part of a series; · WCSF Application Architecture 1: Introduction · WCSF Application Architecture 2: Application Controller · WCSF Application Architecture 3: Model View Presenter · WCSF Application Architecture 4: Environment Abstraction
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