Category Archives: Patterns

Unit testing MonoRail controllers – Redirects

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

When developing with MonoRail, one of the common operations is to redirect to other controllers and actions.  Originally, I looked at the BaseControllerTester to help test, but it required a little too much knowledge of the inner workings of MonoRail … Continue reading →

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Intention-concealing interfaces: blob parameters

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

When someone is using your code, you want your code to be as explicit and easy to understand as possible.  This is achieved through Intention-Revealing Interfaces.  Evans describes the problems of opaque and misleading interfaces in Domain-Driven Design: If a developer … Continue reading →

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Principles and Patterns over Tools and Frameworks

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

It’s interesting to see what other developers value and/or what topics they are interested in regarding the development of software.  I’m going to start doing some internal presentations and live coding sessions at my company for my fellow consultants.  I’ve … Continue reading →

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Specifications versus validators

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

Joe posed a great question on my recent entity validation post: I question the term Validator in relation to DDD.  Since the operation of the Validator seems to be a simple predicate based on business rule shouldn’t the term Specification … Continue reading →

Also posted in Domain-Driven Design | 5 Comments

Entity validation with visitors and extension methods

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Jimmy Bogard

On the Yahoo ALT.NET group, an interesting conversation sprung up around the topic of validation.  Entity validation can be a tricky beast, as validation rules typically depend on the context of the operation (persistence, business rules, etc.). In complex scenarios, … Continue reading →

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RE: Technology Brainstorm

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

(Because I often get tired of writing my verbose comments in a 300×300 text box…) Colin seems to find himself in a pretty good spot.  The wonderful world of Greenfield development.  But of course with this comes…decisions.  MVC or Web … Continue reading →

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RE: Presentation Model Question

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

I’ve been working on an end to end example using MonoRail (I know, just get it posted Joey!) that can demonstrate one way this can be implemented and JP has given me the green light to get it posted even though he’s … Continue reading →

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My First Interview (that I have given)

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

Today I was asked to give a technical interview to a candidate which is kind of a new thing for me.  He had already been screened on the “what’s an abstract class and how do you do <insert something here /> … Continue reading →

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NBehave Experiment: MonoRail Controllers & Rhino Mocks

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

…whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. — 1 John 2:5 Well I decided it was finally time I took a look at NBehave as … Continue reading →

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Building the often needed anti-corruption layer

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.  — Proverbs 1:7 “Agile Joe” and I were chatting about the challenges of building on top of existing application platforms, specifically ones like Microsoft … Continue reading →

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