Speaking at San Diego DNUG tonight

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

If you’re in the San Diego area tonight, I’ll be giving my talk on domain modeling. Details below: http://www.sandiegodotnet.com/ I’ve been told that there is free pizza. If not, I might be able score some stale bagels from my hotel’s … Continue reading →

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CodeMash 2012 wrap up

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

This year was my first to attend the bacon debauchery that is CodeMash. I had been suggested to go by pretty much everyone that I’ve met that has gone, and this year I was fortunate enough to be selected as … Continue reading →

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The grand No Flash experiment (update)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

My dislike of Flash has been well documented, so last month I thought I would try to see what the internet was like without Flash installed, whatsoever. I removed Flash completely from my system, including any Chrome plugin (Chrome has … Continue reading →

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Formula for project success

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

In light of recent conversations around ActiveRecord and Rails, I thought it might be important to recognize the factors in a project success, in terms of the code produced: In order for a software project to be successful, two things … Continue reading →

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Duke Nukem, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

One of my favorite recent books I’ve read is the tome on human societies, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”. In it, there is a section examining domesticable aminals. The author walks through the observation that although … Continue reading →

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Is ThreadStatic a leaky abstraction?

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Reading Ayende’s post on integrating Rhino Service Bus and RavenDB, one thing that caught my eye was the use of the ThreadStatic attribute to control the lifecycle of a private field: One of the things that really bothers me about … Continue reading →

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A grand experiment

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Flash has crashed for the (hopefully) last time. I’m going to run a little experiment. I’m uninstalling Flash and see how much it affects browsing experience for say, one month. I suspect that most experiences will be fine on Chrome, … Continue reading →

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The value of certifications

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Reading Davy Brion’s post on Does Certification Have Any Value?, he provides a common answer: Someone asked which certificate would be the better choice on Twitter today: Microsoft Certified Professional or Certified Scrum Master. My answer was very simple: neither … Continue reading →

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Dealing with transactions

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

In the last post on NServiceBus, I got quite a few comments that one way to fix the problem of dealing with non-transactional operations that must happen if some transaction succeeds is to simply move the non-transactional operation after the … Continue reading →

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Stop premature email sending with NServiceBus

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

We use NServiceBus quite a lot to manage integration points where the other side isn’t transactional and we need to “shore up the process” of communicating with external services. One integration point we often don’t think about in terms of … Continue reading →

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