Author Archives: Chris Patterson

About Chris Patterson

Chris is a senior architect for RelayHealth, the connectivity business of the nation's leading healthcare services company. There he is responsible for the architecture and development of applications and services that accelerate care delivery by connecting patients, providers, pharmacies, and financial institutions. Previously, he led the development of a new content delivery platform for TV Guide, enabling the launch of a new entertainment network seen on thousands of cable television systems. In his spare time, Chris is an active open-source developer and a primary contributor to MassTransit, a distributed application framework for .NET. In 2009, he was awarded the Most Valuable Professional award by Microsoft for his technical community contributions.

I’m Down With M.V.C., Yeah You Know Me!

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Chris Patterson

Over the past week, I’ve had some time to dig into the new ASP.NET MVC framework. For starters, my background in web development is mostly classic ASP talking to COM objects built in C++. I’ve only used ASP.NET to provide … Continue reading →

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Declarative Workflow with MassTransit

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Chris Patterson

One of the really cool features that is available in the 0.6 release of MassTransit is the ability to declaratively define a saga/workflow using a nested-closure syntax in combination with a fluent builder. While some wonder if fluent interfaces are … Continue reading →

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MassTransit 0.6 Release Candidate

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Chris Patterson

I’m proud to announce that we are getting close to a final 0.6 release of MassTransit. We’ve been working on this release since early December and have added a lot of new functionality. We’re also glad to have integrated a … Continue reading →

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Dr. Dru and PhatBoyG On Elegant Code Cast

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Chris Patterson

Just over a week ago, Dru Sellers and I recorded a podcast with Elegant Coders Jarod Ferguson and David Starr. We spent a couple of hours discussing event driven architecture (EDA), messaging, and MassTransit. Through the magic of editing, they … Continue reading →

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Developing for the iPhone

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Chris Patterson

First, one my the reasons I love using OSX: 16 applications open including 4 Xcode projects, Photoshop, Numbers, Evernote, Mindjet MindManager, and more without a hint of slowdown and still 1.3 GB free (4GB total on my MBP). It’s wide, … Continue reading →

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State Machine for Managing Sagas

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Chris Patterson

MassTransit supports sagas, which are long-lived transactions consisting of multiple events. The saga support makes it easy to orchestrate the events into a process, but it doesn’t do much to help with state management. Since state management is fairly common, … Continue reading →

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MassTransit Turns One Year Old, Celebrations Held Around the World

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Chris Patterson

Today marks the one year anniversary of the first commit to the MassTransit GoogleCode repository. While Dru Sellers and I initially did some proof of concept work, this day marks the decision to go forward with a standalone .NET messaging … Continue reading →

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Simplified MassTransit Configuration

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Chris Patterson

One of the things I’ve missed since we integrated container support is the ability to quickly and easily create an instance of the ServiceBus. After Ayende agreed, I decided it was time to do something about it. Behold the minimum … Continue reading →

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QCon San Francisco, Opening Day

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Chris Patterson

The main conference for QCon started Wednesday, opening with a keynote by Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons from Thoughtworks. The topic was Architects and Agilists – Allies not Adversaries. As you can surmise from the title, this talk focused on … Continue reading →

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QCon in San Francisco Getting Started

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Chris Patterson

This week I’m attending QCon, the international software developers conference, and since the day I arrived it has been great. The depth of knowledge is truly amazing and I’m enjoying some excellent conversations. The attendee mix is (based on my … Continue reading →

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