I'm giving a talk on TDD at our local UG tonight, and under the influence of some recent posts here on devlicio.us, I just finished reworking my presentation. This post is an outline for the first half of my presentation. The Problems Code has entropy. That is over time it deteriorates. At least...

I've been asked about best practices and good design several times over the last few months. A few questions have been from students, or newcomers to .NET, and I have found their questions very insightful. They ask questions I remember asking myself. One good example was "I know I should separate...

I was looking into using the ObjectMother 'pattern' if it can be called that to deal with the mountains of repetitive code that has been accruing in one of my projects. Unfortunately I saw that it was difficult to deal with changing commonly variant properties for testing purposes and then I...

I've spent the majority of my career as a Web developer, and I've only recently (with the discovery of MonoRail) really felt good about it. I mean to say, that a true MVC framework facilitates simple and elegant Web development, whereas in the past (with classic ASP and WebForms) I always felt that something...

I've been overloaded lately with my infant .NET consulting company, and I have to apologize for the lack of consistent posts. I just read a terse, but very insightful post from Sam Gentile. You'll need to dig into it and read the cross links, but it's a worth the while. Basically, he's covering the techniques...

Transgression One of my crusades of the past year has been to break myself and my team of the habit of embedding domain logic into the code-behinds of our ASP.NET pages. For me, this is a habit that has carried over from the ASP 3.0 days of old. More recently, we have a nice domain layer that is persisted...

If you do any Web development whatsoever then you have most likely heard of Ruby on Rails . Ruby is a dynamic programming language and Rails is a framework for Web development. It's analogous to saying C# on ASP.NET. Well, the Rails framework is impressive to me in its own right. Even after just...