Category Archives: AppController

Don’t Limit Your Backbone Apps To Backbone Constructs

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I’ve noticed a pattern in Backbone sample apps, requests for help via StackOverflow and the Google group, etc, where people realize that they have a need for an object that coordinates various parts of the application. This is a great … Continue reading →

Also posted in AntiPatterns, Backbone, Javascript | 7 Comments

How do you handle simple pub-sub, evented architecture in rails apps?

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I’ve been asking this question in various forms, via twitter, for a few days now. I’ve received a number of answers from people and have spent some time talking with Jak Charlton about the patterns that I would have used … Continue reading →

Also posted in Analysis and Design, Messaging, Principles and Patterns, Ruby | 14 Comments

Rhino Mocks: Recursion And Multiple Return Values From Stubs

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A coworker and I were recently working on some recursive code in a WinForms app that followed these basic steps: Show a form If the return status was a certain value, show another form If the return status from the … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, Behavior Driven Development, C#, Tools and Vendors, Unit Testing | 3 Comments

Form Management: Tight Or Incorrect Coupling Can Cause Hard To Find Bugs

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A coworker and I ran into this code in some of our WinForms in our Compact Framework (.net 3.5) application: 1: public class LaunchForm: Form 2: { 3: //a bunch of other form/view related stuff 4:  5: private void Login() … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, AntiPatterns, C#, Compact Framework, Principles and Patterns | 1 Comment

Adding Request / Reply To The Application Controller

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Back in December of 2009 I had a post on using various messaging patterns within an application controller as part of an application’s architecture. One of the patterns that I distinctly left out was request/reply. At the time I had … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, C#, Compact Framework, CQRS, Design Patterns, Messaging, Pragmatism, Principles and Patterns | 4 Comments

Coupling Is Your Friend

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Derick Bailey

My SOLID article in Code Magazine talks about the concept of coupling as one of the object oriented principles that we are striving to get right. “Coupling is not inherently evil. If you don’t have some amount of coupling, your … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, AntiPatterns, C#, Principles and Patterns, Workflow | 2 Comments

Application Events: Modeling Selection vs De-Selection as Separate Events?

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’m using my Event Aggregator in my current project to manage communication between a custom control and it’s parent form. This is the same control I talked about in my CQRS Performance Engineering post. It has several drop down lists … Continue reading →

Also posted in Analysis and Design, Craftsmanship, Messaging, Model-View-Presenter | 10 Comments

Understanding The Application Controller Through Object Messaging Patterns

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Earlier in the year, I posted a few times on the Application Controller pattern that I was implementing, including some workflow service related posts, all leading up to the presentation on decoupling workflow from forms that I gave at Austin … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, Messaging, Model-View-Presenter, Principles and Patterns, Workflow | 5 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 →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Presentations, Principles and Patterns, Workflow | 3 Comments

Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Derick Bailey

One of the big problems I’ve been trying to solve recently, is in my current WinForms application that using a Model-View-Presenter setup. I have my workflow between forms coupled to the forms directly. That is, in order to get from … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Design Patterns, Git, Model-View-Presenter, Principles and Patterns | 9 Comments