Monthly Archives: May 2009

Announcing Pablo’s E-Books! Book #1: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Hello World! I’m happy to announce the first Los Techies compiled, Pablo endorsed, E-Book: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development “S.O.L.I.D. is a collection of best-practice object-oriented design principles that you can apply to your design to accomplish various desirable goals like … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, E-Books, Principles and Patterns | 2 Comments

Result<T>: Directing Workflow With A Return Status And Value

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Derick Bailey

I often code user interfaces that have some sort of cancel button on them. For example, in my upcoming ‘Decoupling Workflow’ presentation, I have the following screen: Notice the nice cancel button on the form. The trick to this situation … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, AppController, C#, Presentations, Principles and Patterns, Workflow | 3 Comments

A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Derick Bailey

As a recent convert to the awesomeness that is git (my current flavor is msysgit), I find myself continuously needing to update the .gitignore file that I copy and paste between my repositories. Here’s what my ignore file currently contains: … Continue reading →

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I’m Presenting At Austin Code Camp 2009

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Derick Bailey

As Chad so eloquently stated, this year’s AustinCodeCamp really is going to be better than bacon! And I feel honored to be one of the better than bacon speakers at this year’s event. I’m delivering two presentations: The SOLID presentation … Continue reading →

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Balsamiq And A Sneak Preview Of My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Derick Bailey

I know I’m late jumping on this bandwagon, but it’s better late than never, right? :) I decided to try out the Balsamiq Mockups tool while working on my sample application for the ‘Decoupling Workflow from Forms’ presentation that I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Product Reviews, User Experience | 4 Comments

FluentNHibernate Contrib (FNH.Contrib) Is Alive!

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Derick Bailey

A few months ago, a coworker created a set of extension methods to turn NHibernate’s Criteria API into a more fluenty, strongly typed API. We’ve been using it in a production app for a few months, and I wanted to … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Community, Fluent NHibernate, FNH.Contrib, Git, NHibernate | 14 Comments