Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Posted on October 30, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

A while back, Eric Lippert talked about arrays being somewhat harmful.  The reason being, if you’re looking to create logical immutability, arrays aren’t it.  Array length is immutable, but its contents aren’t.  If you need to return an array, make … Continue reading →

Posted in C# | 6 Comments

Testing fun with ASP.NET MVC

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

So I assumed that much like MonoRail, ASP.NET MVC would have created, at the very least, abstractions on top of HttpContext.  Although HttpContext is an absolute beast of a god class, creating an abstraction is possible.  Let’s look at MonoRail’s … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET MVC, MonoRail | 4 Comments

Hail to the king, baby!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Looks like StructureMap 2.5 dropped this weekend.  Which is nice, as we’ve been running off of the trunk for around six months. On a side note, I never really *openly* mocked the release as the Duke Nukem Forever release, just … Continue reading →

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Where are the DDD sample applications?

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

It’s a question I see quite a bit, on the ALT.NET mailing list, the DDD mailing list, and any other medium where DDD comes up.  For those trying DDD, this is a rather difficult question to answer.  Many have tried … Continue reading →

Posted in Domain-Driven Design | 20 Comments

Encapsulation and thinking behaviorally

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about setters and encapsulation, but for whatever reason, it never really “clicked” for me.  I thought I was developing behaviorally, as I’ve been using the Context/Specification style of BDD specifications for a while.  … Continue reading →

Posted in BDD, Behavior-Driven Development | 4 Comments

Fluent hierarchical construction

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Building a hierarchy of objects doesn’t happen that often in code, but when it does, it can get pretty ugly.  Most of the time, the hierarchy will come out of the database.  Recently, we had a hierarchy that needed to … Continue reading →

Posted in C# | 14 Comments

Acceptable test failures

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

As Derick Bailey pointed out in my last post, one of the annoyances with ReSharper is the NotImplementedException it puts in when you generate a method.  Going from the TDD side, this is exactly what we don’t want when we’re … Continue reading →

Posted in TDD | 5 Comments

NotImplementedException and the Interface Segregation Principle

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

This week, Derrick Bailey will be in town (Austin) to talk about the SOLID principles.  One of the hardest ones to talk about, and find examples for, is the Interface Segregation Principle.  The ISP states: CLIENTS SHOULD NOT BE FORCED … Continue reading →

Posted in Code smells, Design | 7 Comments

Three simple Rhino Mocks rules

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

In previous versions of Rhino Mocks, the Record/Replay model was the only way to create and verify mocks.  You would have an area that set up expectations in a record mode, then the replay mode would verify your expectations.  What … Continue reading →

Posted in Rhino Mocks, TDD | 13 Comments

Transitioning between consulting projects

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Starting at Headspring gave me the first opportunity in my career to do consulting work.  I had previously worked in a startup, a product team and a large IT department.  In each of those cases, I didn’t leave a job … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc | 2 Comments