Monthly Archives: October 2008

Composing Statements with Expression Trees in .NET 3.0

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Chad Myers

I was preparing some examples for my upcoming ALT.NET Workshop and thought that this might be of some interest to a few people. Expression Trees’ primary raison d’être was to facilitate LINQ-y type stuff in the IQueryable implementations to support … Continue reading →

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Internal DSL Pattern: Nested Function

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Chad Myers

This is a portion of a larger set of posts on the subject of Internal DSLs. Nested Function is a pattern explained by Martin Fowler as part of his DSL book work in progress. Fowler’s take on Nested Functions is … Continue reading →

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Internal DSL Pattern: Method Chaining

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Chad Myers

This is a portion of a larger set of posts on the subject of Internal DSLs. Method Chaining is a pattern explained by Martin Fowler as part of his DSL book work in progress. Fowler’s take on Method Chaining is … Continue reading →

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Internal DSL Pattern: Expression Builder

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Chad Myers

This is a portion of a larger set of posts on the subject of Internal DSLs. – Method chaining – Internal state (model or otherwise) – Progressive interfaces – Rathole problem (Fowler calls it the ‘stopping’ problem) Post Footer automatically … Continue reading →

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ALT.NET Workshops: Internal DSL Draft Outline, Notes

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Chad Myers

I’ve been preparing for the upcoming ALT.NET Workshop (associated with KaizenConf) on Internal Domain Specific Languages (DSL).  The schedule hasn’t been released yet, but I’m pretty sure the Internal DSL workshop will be on Friday 31-OCT (don’t quote me just … Continue reading →

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ReSharper Jedi – FizzBuzz in under 4 minutes

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Chad Myers

Video (FLV/Flash, 3:55,06, CSA 0:00,00 no words/captioning) Video link (please expand/full screen it’s viewed properly at 1024×768): http://www.viddler.com/explore/Lostechies/videos/1/    Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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The 3 Most Dangerous Words in the English Language (as determined by software developers)

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Chad Myers

What are these words? Oh, I can’t possibly mention them because they will apparently unleash all sorts of evil and toil upon the Earth. Why do I believe this? Because people (at least people in my industry – that is, … Continue reading →

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Austin .NET Dojo on WCF

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Chad Myers

J Sawyer, our local MS events guy, and Stephen Fulcher are hosting a .NET coding dojo here in Austin, TX on November 3rd, 2008. The topic is WCF and the format is based off a similar dojo event which was … Continue reading →

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NHibernate Intro Screencast Source

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Chad Myers

A few folks have asked me recently to post the source/binaries for my recent NHibernate Intro screencasts that are currently up on Dimecasts.net.  So, here they are!   ZIP/Binary download: http://code.google.com/p/pablo/downloads/list Source Code Browse: http://code.google.com/p/pablo/source/browse/#svn/trunk/presentations/chadmyers/nhibernate-intro SVN Source Code Checkout: http://pablo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/presentations/chadmyers/nhibernate-intro … Continue reading →

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PDoTDD: It’s a Wrap! Recap Edition (Part 2/2)

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Chad Myers

As predicted, I did forget a few “Thanks” from my previous post on this subject.  I’d like to thank my own employer, Dovetail Software and, personally, the CEO, Stephen Lynn who generously granted me time to attend and help organize … Continue reading →

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