Category Archives: Advice

Composition versus Inheritance

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Chad Myers

One score (minus five) years ago, in the age of yore and of our programming forefathers, there was written a little book. A seminal book. A book that would change things. That book was called Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable … Continue reading →

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“Productization”

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Chad Myers

I need some ‘wisdom of the crowd’ here. I’m guessing just about ever single one of you (at least the software developer types) reading this have deployed software to a production environment at least once in your career. One of … Continue reading →

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The usual result of Poor Man’s Dependency Injection

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Chad Myers

Alternate Title: An IoC Container is a Rich Man’s Factory Pattern Implementation I ruffled some feathers with my last post on Poor Man’s Dependency Injection (PDMI), so please allow me to clarify further. The natural progression of using PMDI is … Continue reading →

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Excelling in a job interview

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Chad Myers

My friend and co-worker Gary Sherman recently tweeted this and I thought I would share it with you: How to Nail an Interview: http://www.howtonailaninterview.com/ (for my English-as-a-second-language friends, ‘nail’ here means ‘to achieve great success’ – the text of the … Continue reading →

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How to apply for a professional job

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Chad Myers

Think for a good solid 10 seconds before answering these two questions: “What does the word ‘professional’ mean to you?” and “Do you consider yourself a professional?”   I’ll wait while you think. If you answered “Yes” to the second question, … Continue reading →

Also posted in Hiring | 2 Comments

Need Advice: Teach NHibernate with Fluent NHibernate or Without?

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Chad Myers

I’m in the process of writing an upcoming article for CoDe Magazine about getting started with NHibernate. I’ve spoken with several people about my approach and the majority of them seem to agree that I should use Fluent NHibernate for … Continue reading →

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