Category Archives: Patterns

Fluent Silverlight – Part 1

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction We (that is Ray Houston and myself) want to introduce a new framework we developed in the past few months. This framework provides a fluent interface to Microsoft Silverlight. As we have been able to leverage a lot of … Continue reading →

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PTOM – Brownfield development – Making your dependencies explicit

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introducing DI and “poor man’s DI” Introduction Greenfield Development happens when you start a brand new project, as in, clean slate development. No legacy code lying around, no old development to maintain. You’re starting afresh, from scratch, from a blank … Continue reading →

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The open closed principle

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

In the previous two posts I discussed the S of S.O.L.I.D. which is the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and the D of S.O.L.I.D. which corresponds to the Dependency Inversion Principle (DI). This time I want to continue this series with … Continue reading →

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Real Swiss don’t need SRP, do they?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction You may ask yourself why I publish another article about the single responsibility principle (SRP). We already had some very good post about this principle at Los Techies, e.g. here, here and here to mention just a few. Well, … Continue reading →

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Domain Models in presentation frameworks

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

One common question when applying DDD is how to interpret other architecture’s concepts of a “model”.  For example, two common presentation architectures are MVC and MVP.  In each of those acronyms, the “M” is short for “Model”.  So what exactly … Continue reading →

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PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Ray Houston

The Composite Design Pattern This post talks about the Composite Design Pattern and is part of Pablo’s Topic of the Month – November: Design Patterns. A Composite is a tree structure where each node can be represented as a common … Continue reading →

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Pablo’s Topic of the Month – November: Design Patterns

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Ray Houston

Pablo’s Topic of the Month – November: Design Patterns Back in April, we announced we would be doing a PTOM on Design Patterns. It turned out that April was a busy month for all of us and we didn’t live … Continue reading →

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Strategies and discriminators in NHibernate

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

I recently posted about enumeration classes, and how I like to use them as a sort of “Enumerations with behavior”.  Not every enumeration should be replaced with a class, but that pattern helps quite a bit when I find a … Continue reading →

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Separation of Concerns by example: Part 3

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

We made quite a bit of progress separating out the concerns in Part 2, but there are still some issues with our current design.  Other parts in this series include: Separation of Concerns – how not to do it Separation … Continue reading →

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Pablo’s Topic of the Month – April: Design Patterns

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Chad Myers

Pablo’s Topic of the Month – April: Design Patterns Over the next few days and weeks, the Los Techies crew will be writing a number of blog posts focused a particular subject in addition to their regular blogging.  Pablo’s Topic … Continue reading →

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