Monthly Archives: November 2008

Who do you wanna Jott? Twitter

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Mo Khan

So I recently started twittering… or tweeting. I’m not sure what the correct lingo is, so hook me up if you know. It all started a while back when James announced that he was the newest Twit. He mentioned a … Continue reading →

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Container Configuration

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Mo Khan

In my last post I briefly mentioned how we were wiring some components in to our container.  The syntax looked like the following: container.AddProxyOf( new ReportPresenterTaskConfiguration(), new ReportPresenterTask( Lazy.Load<IReportDocumentBuilder>(), Lazy.Load<IApplicationSettings>()) ); We’re using Castle Windsor under the hood, but we … Continue reading →

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Lazy Loaded Interceptors

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Mo Khan

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture defines Lazy Load as: An object that doesn’t contain all of the data you need but knows how to get it.   A while back I was trying to figure out how to lazy load … Continue reading →

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Opening Doors

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Mo Khan

joshka left a comment on my previous post that reads… "… Can you talk about the Application Context and IKey stuff a little in a future post?" The IKey<T> interface defines a contract for different keys that are put into … Continue reading →

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Mocking Queryables

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Mo Khan

Recently, we’ve been mocking out IQueryable’s as return values, which had led to setups that look like the following… programs.setup_result_for(x => x.All()).Return(new List<IProgram> {active_program,inactive_program}.AsQueryable()); I just switched over to the following syntax… by creating an extension method. programs.setup_result_for(x => x.All()).will_return(active_program,inactive_program); … Continue reading →

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Intercepting Business Transactions

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Mo Khan

In Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, the Unit of Work design pattern is defined as: Maintains a list of objects affected by a business transaction and coordinates the writing out of changes and the resolution of concurrency problems. NHibernate seems … Continue reading →

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