Category Archives: Patterns

Refactoring towards a DRY, fluent interface

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

But I (Jesus) say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you — Matthew 5:44 Problem In my current project, I … Continue reading →

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Template Delegate Pattern

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

This post was originally published here. I’ve had to use this pattern a few times, most recently in Behave#.  It’s similar to the Template Method pattern, but doesn’t resort to using subclassing for using a template method.  Instead, a delegate … Continue reading →

Also posted in ALT.NET, Misc, Self-examination | 6 Comments

What does maintainability mean to you?

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

Sometimes in my discussions with other developers, we have to agree to disagree on certain things.  One recent topic was that of maintainability, in regards to the size of classes/methods and project structures.  I find it curious that some developers believe a … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing NHibernate DALs – What Are You *Really* Testing?

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

Someone new to NHibernate recently asked me how to unit test their data access layer which uses NHibernate.  I’ve already sent him my thoughts on it, but figured it may make for a good blog post to get some of the … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET | 12 Comments

Creating Composite View Components In MonoRail / Refactoring Exercise

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

In a previous post, I showed some examples of how to create custom view components in MonoRail and touched on the ability to create composite view components.  Since then I’ve refactored towards the use of interfaces which I think is a cleaner approach, … Continue reading →

Also posted in Rails, Ruby | 4 Comments