I've written about the template method pattern before. For my money it's still a very useful pattern for building super lightweight frameworks and enabling the open-closed principle which states: Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for...

In Domain-Driven Design we turn to the specification pattern when we want to check whether an object matches some criteria. I think specification is the oft-forgotten bastard child pattern of the domain model pattern language. I know I frequently turn to queries -- sometimes query objects -- when I want...

I finally set up a googlecode project to host source code for the various things I have been doing over the last year. The first major significant contribution is of course the code drop that I promised a week ago now!! The application is the start of what I hope will evolve to be a great learning resource...

That’s right folks. Nothin But .Net is coming to New York. The course is going to be held at TCCIT Solutions . The course runs for the week of October 22nd – 26 th , 2007. Overview Nothin But .Net is a five day boot camp that will focus on pragmatically applying .Net within the context of...

Bil Simser had a post up the other day about Refactoring Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest away. I had some small suggestions that I offered up and Bil implemented some of the changes that I had mentioned. Here is the code as it stands right now : public class SegmentConfigurationFactory { /// <summary>...