Let's return to the series on how to architect applications that use LINQ To SQL. First of all, for those you who missed it, a summary of where we have been: Part 1, Introduction Part 2, Layered Architectures Part 3, DAOs and Repositories Part 4, Dynamic Queries Introduction I had a couple of requests...

Now that the title has grabbed your attention no I don't really think that mocks are a code smell as a rule but I do think they are grossly overused and there are other ways of dealing with the same issues which should also be considered when designing systems. While not purely, I guess some may...

One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here . Now I have to confess to being a classicist. I tried being a mockist, but I...

I'm preparing a chunk of code for open source release in January. Among many other things it has a persistence layer wrapper with a "provider" for NHibernate, yet another validation framework, and a few goodies for building smart clients. It's not dissimilar to Ayende's Rhino Commons...

Over on the altnetconf list the question arose as to where you start when implementing agile within an organization. The first thing to bear in mind is that you probably want to avoid implementing all the practices, at the same time. This is likely to cause you to fail, because your attention will be...

I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't have time to read them right now. I'm the...

Previously I discussed some issues with modopt . Well there are more. In total I have logged three issues (could be many more as nearly every language I have looked at has the same problems). I figured I would put up some links and describe each issue here. C# specification does not define modopt varying...