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.
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- DDD Validation | C#Net on Entity validation with visitors and extension methods
- Scott Banwart's Blog › Distributed Weekly 207 on Saga patterns: wrap up
- Scott Banwart's Blog › Distributed Weekly 207 on Eventual consistency in REST APIs
- AquaBirdConsult on Eventual consistency in REST APIs
- Jalpesh Vadgama on Building forms for deep View Model graphs in ASP.NET MVC
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Category Archives: Rails
A question for Rubyists
I was checking out this post from Derick Bailey today, and something struck me rather odd. Not the “DI only enables testability” argument, but the ruby code: class Foo def bar baz = Baz.new baz.do_something end end I’ve been very … Continue reading
Also posted in C#
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RVM, Bash Scripting and Rails 3 Edge
I’ve only begun to tap into the power of bash scripting, but I had a need to automate setting up a Rails 3 app on edge, using RVM like I want. So I decided to whip up a very simple … Continue reading
Also posted in Misc, Tools
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OSX Terminal Automation
My OSX Terminal Environment (as of today) Some of this might be old hat for a lot of you, but maybe this will help at least a few people. I’m a pretty big automation addict. During my Ruby on Rails … Continue reading
Also posted in NBehave
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From ALT.NET to NOT.NET
For a long time now I’ve been known as “joeyDotNet”. Of course I’ll never make the mistake tying my name to a particular technology like that again. Especially given some of the recent changes I’ve made in my career. For … Continue reading
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The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 2
Rails Deployment & Testing There are some really nice tools available for deployment and testing rails. Below is a brief description of some of the ones I’ve been using with success. Capistrano I remember in the early days of my … Continue reading
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The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1
As some of you might know, About a month ago I left my almost 10 year career as a Microsoft developer to become an independent Ruby/Rails developer (a term I’m deeming “pulling a Gunderloy”). It was long overdue for me … Continue reading
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Git post-merge hook to auto-fire rails migrations
I saw Scott Bellware recently write on twitter: for christmas, i really want a git hook to detect if an update has changes in the db/migrations folder Cory Foy, Aaron Jensen, and myself all responded in turn. I think Cory … Continue reading
Setting up Ubuntu Jaunty for Ruby and Rails development
Getting Ruby setup on Ubuntu – Jaunty UPDATED: Added RSpec for Rails as well Here are some quick steps to get you up and running with Ruby on Ubuntu, Take about 15 minutes depending on your internet connection. Step 1: … Continue reading
Current Status
UPDATE: I’m very eager to see where IronRuby and RSpec go for the .NET world. Testing my C# Applications with RSpec would be awesome. Check out the MSDN magazine article about this stuff if you haven’t already. I’m working with … Continue reading
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Personal CI history and Hudson CI as service on Ubuntu/Debian
UPDATE: CruiseControl.rb does have Git support from git://github.com/benburkert/cruisecontrolrb.git. Thank you Jeremy for the heads’ up (comment below) CI == Continous Integration I personally enjoy watching a team hear the Mortal Kombat voice yell “Fatality” when a build fails and see … Continue reading
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