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We attended the two day Dev4Good hackathon in Hammersmith; and worked on digitalizing the paper based application process for the The Goldsmith Craft and Design Council awards.

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.

Volunteering as a chef for the Kai We Care pop-up restaurant for the Red Cross earthquake fund for Christchurch, New Zealand.

We've decided to combine the StyleCop and StyleCop for ReSharper code bases to make long term maintenance easier.

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.

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?

This retrospective post shares the author's top developer tools, technology trends, apps, and gadgets from 2010, including JetBrains, Rx, NoSQL, and the Kindle.

We've added convention over configuration features to our Dependency Injection library - the endjin composition framework, to help improve your productivity.

This post demonstrates how to build an abstraction layer over IoC containers like Castle Windsor and MEF, enabling developers to switch container implementations while maintaining a consistent API for resolving dependencies and bootstrapping.

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.

Step-by-step guide on setting up YouTrack and using IIS as a reverse proxy for custom domain access.

Step-by-step guide on setting up TeamCity and using IIS as a reverse proxy for custom domain access.

Incrementally adding behaviour should be only incrementally more complex. Layer your APIs so simple tasks stay simple, while still offering a discoverable path to advanced features.

Cleaner Reactive Extensions over INotifyPropertyChanged in C#: helper methods that simplify Expression-based subscriptions for property changes in MVVM apps.

Silverlight has no equivalent to WPF's CommandManager and its RequerySuggested event. This post explores why, and a pattern for porting the behaviour across.

This post demonstrates how to generalize component registration using C# generics and base classes, reducing boilerplate code while maintaining the convention-based approach to container bootstrapping with MEF and Castle Windsor.

My last post caused a number of responses from the community. I discuss them here and provide a little bit more context.

A simple-looking foreach loop was taking over 200 seconds. The culprit: LINQ's deferred execution re-evaluating a query on every iteration.

This post demonstrates how to componentize registration by combining MEF's discovery capabilities with Castle Windsor's conventional registration, enabling automatic bootstrapping of self-describing components.

This post explores Castle.Windsor's fluent API for convention-based component registration, enabling low-ceremony dependency injection through namespace matching and interface implementation patterns.

This post explores Castle.Windsor's registration and resolution model for dependency injection, contrasting its convention-based approach with MEF's explicit import/export attributes.

Templify is a simple tool for tokenising and packaging entire code based solutions. It's designed to unfurl demos / quickstarts / solution templates.

This post explores MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) for component discovery and composition in .NET, demonstrating its export/import attributes and explaining its limitations compared to full IoC containers.

This post introduces the fundamentals of component discovery and composition in .NET, exploring how MEF and Castle.Windsor can be combined to create loosely-coupled, modular application architectures.

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.