Category Archives: Programming

OO Do I Know Thee?

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Gregory Long

I was first introduced to the OO Programming Paradigm through JAVA in 1998.  Before that I did most of my work in C or shell scripts.  I liked it well enough but for business applications the paradigm felt wrong.  JAVA … Continue reading →

Also posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Gregory Long

Have you ever read a blog post about TDD, Dependency Injection, or some other concept and thought, “Sounds great . . . if you work in an ivory tower, but I have to work with [insert your code-base here].”?  Or … Continue reading →

Also posted in Rails, Ruby | 4 Comments

PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Ray Houston

The Composite Design Pattern This post talks about the Composite Design Pattern and is part of Pablo’s Topic of the Month – November: Design Patterns. A Composite is a tree structure where each node can be represented as a common … Continue reading →

Also posted in Patterns, Principles, PTOM | 2 Comments

Pablo’s Topic of the Month – November: Design Patterns

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Ray Houston

Pablo’s Topic of the Month – November: Design Patterns Back in April, we announced we would be doing a PTOM on Design Patterns. It turned out that April was a busy month for all of us and we didn’t live … Continue reading →

Also posted in 1998, Humor | 8 Comments

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Chad Myers

This morning I happened to see the article “.NET Coding Standard & Code Review Points” linked from the good folks over at DotNetKicks.com.  I was horrified to see some of the very bad guidance being offered here. While I appreciate … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Design, Guidance | 31 Comments

Seeking Closures

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Joshua Lockwood

So, what’s a closure and why should I care? As Bob Dylan said, “…the times they are a changin’.”   The strange world of functional programming, once restricted to more esoteric languages such as LISP, Erlang and Haskell, is now invading … Continue reading →

Also posted in Principles | 1 Comment

The FUN-duh-MENTALs

Posted on August 16, 2008 by Mo Khan

So tonight I got to help demo what a fishbowl was at the ALT.NET Canada (thanks Doc!) conference and the topic of discussion was on the Fundamentals of Software development. During the session I started to realize that what I … Continue reading →

Also posted in CodingDojo, TDD | 7 Comments

How did I get started in software development?

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Chad Myers

Jason Meridth tagged me with this meme, so I’ll play along if anyone cares. How old were you when you started programming? I remember being 6 or 7 years old helping my brother open the box for our new Commodore … Continue reading →

Also posted in TDD | 1 Comment

How did I get started in software development?

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Jason Meridth

Thanks for tagging me Joey. How old were you when you started programming? I was 11 years old (6th grade) when I started using QBasic to make easy games.  I actually knew about the easter egg that showed the developer … Continue reading →

Also posted in leadership | 3 Comments

Engaging Microsoft

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Chad Myers

Many Microsoft employees were at the ALT.NET conf in Seattle — including many of the ones that have been criticized publicly by the greater ALT.NET community. Not only was Microsoft there, but they were a sponsor and a few employees … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, altdotnet | 9 Comments