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On .NET Rocks! Talking about Sharp Architecture, Templify and StyleCop
Long time listener, first time guest. I was invited to speak on the .NET Rocks! Podcast, to talk about Sharp Architecture and various other Open Source projects I've been involved with.
Quiet day on Monday
Volunteering as a chef for the Kai We Care pop-up restaurant for the Red Cross earthquake fund for Christchurch, New Zealand.
StyleCop and StyleCop for ReSharper have merged
We've decided to combine the StyleCop and StyleCop for ReSharper code bases to make long term maintenance easier.
On Apprenticeships
You don't have to have a Computer Science Degree in order to be a software engineer or work in the tech industry. In this post I talk about my career journey, from Psychology Grad, to Software Engineer, to Business Owner.
Where do my Visual States come from in Blend?
How does Expression Blend managed to find the Visual States exposed by the standard controls? How could you do the same with your own code?
Endjin–Looking back on 2010
Work Smarter with Convention Over Configuration and the Endjin Composition Framework
We've added convention over configuration features to our Dependency Injection library - the endjin composition framework, to help improve your productivity.
Component Discovery and Composition II - Abstracting the container implementation
A Step by Step Guide to MongoDB for .NET Developers
MongoDB has been taken a large amount of mindshare in the NoSQL space. In this blog post we share a simple step-by-step guide on how to get started as a .NET developer.
A Step by Step Guide to Hosting YouTrack in IIS 7
Step-by-step guide on setting up YouTrack and using IIS as a reverse proxy for custom domain access.
A Step by Step Guide to Hosting TeamCity in IIS 7
Step-by-step guide on setting up TeamCity and using IIS as a reverse proxy for custom domain access.
Layering your API
Layering your APIs can increase readability and discoverability
RX and INotifyPropertyChanged
In this post we evolve an implementation of Rx over INotifyPropertyChanged.
Silverlight CommandManager
A deep dive into command binding in Silverlight.
Component discovery and composition Part 1f: Fundamentals – Generalizing Registration
A follow up to "A Short Tale of a Deceptively Slow LINQ Expression"
My last post caused a number of responses from the community. I discuss them here and provide a little bit more context.
A Short Tale of a Deceptively Slow LINQ Expression
In this post I delve into some performance analysis of an expensive loop that was taking over 200 seconds to run.
Component discovery and composition Part 1e: Fundamentals – Componentizing Registration
Component discovery and composition Part 1d: Fundamentals – Introducing Conventions
Component discovery and composition Part 1c: Fundamentals – Castle.Windsor
Introducing Templify
Templify is a simple tool for tokenising and packaging entire code based solutions. It's designed to unfurl demos / quickstarts / solution templates.
Component discovery and composition Part 1b: Fundamentals - MEF
Component discovery and composition Part 1: Fundamentals
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Feedback loops are an incredibly powerful force. In order adopt a continuous improvement mindset, you need to set up positive feedback loops. Here's how I've internalised the 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' mantra.