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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Evolutionary Architecture
A popular cause the Agile folks like to rally against is the idea of a Big Design Up Front (BDUF). But much like Waterfall, the people doing BDUF will hardly admit that it’s BDUF that they’re doing. Instead, you’re much … Continue reading
Posted in Design
7 Comments
Context and Best Practices
Last night, I had a Skype/SharedView session with a buddy in Arkansas trying to apply DDD and “best practices” to an application he was building. He wanted to use all the ALT.NET tools he’s heard so much about, such as … Continue reading
Posted in Domain-Driven Design
20 Comments
Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems
So you’ve set up StructureMap, got all your registries in a row, go to run the application, and you’re greeted by a rather unfortunate message: StructureMap.StructureMapException : StructureMap Exception Code: 202 No Default Instance defined for PluginFamily That’s just one … Continue reading
Posted in StructureMap
2 Comments
My picture of an MVC-WebForms marriage
Like it or not, WebForms is not going away. Fortune 50 companies use it for their public facing, mission critical websites, and I can’t really see many of these folks tossing away years of work simply because MVC is the … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC
5 Comments
Starting fresh
While prepping for the Headspring MVC Boot Camp last week, I had a couple of choices for getting the examples project up and going. I wanted the examples to use an actual domain model, a real IoC tool, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Design
3 Comments
Poor use of DI versus need for DI
Surprise surprise, but Uncle Bob got the twitterverse all riled up with another opinionated post, “Dependency Injection Inversion”. His basic advice from the post on DI tools is: I think these frameworks are great tools. But I also think you … Continue reading
Posted in Design
13 Comments
Advanced StructureMap: custom registration conventions for partially closed types
A while back, I highlighted an issue we ran into where I had basically partially closed generic types. A common pattern in message- and command-based architectures is the concept of a handler for a message: public interface IHandler<TEvent> { void … Continue reading
Posted in StructureMap
2 Comments
MVC Bootcamp next week
Next week, I’ll be teaching a 3-day course on ASP.NET MVC, as part of Headspring’s ASP.NET MVC Boot Camp. The material touches on a lot of the ASP.NET MVC features we use day-to-day, as well as looking at how we use … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.NET MVC
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UI Automation tools snake oil?
Michael Feathers posted a thoughtful piece describing the general problems of UI testing tools and the industry in general. In general, I’d agree here. Automation tool vendors, as with almost every tool vendor out there, are eager to solve perceived … Continue reading
Posted in Testing
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About Me
I'm a technical architect with Headspring in Austin, TX. I focus on DDD, distributed systems, and any other acronym-centric design/architecture/methodology. I created AutoMapper and am a co-author of the ASP.NET MVC in Action books.