It’s been a while since I last wrote anything about DDD/BDD. Since MS decided to give some Spanish developers the chance to create a DDD manifesto (of sorts) with the N Layer App, I’ve been meaning to take it up again. First of all – I have not read their e-book cover-to-cover, and I have [...]
This post is inspired by my comment on this article. Basically, his (John Sommez) premise is that if we did not have rules, we’d be dead. Okay, that was the devil reading the bible there for a minute. Don’t get me wrong, I think rules are a good way of learning a craft – memorize [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of performance tuning the last few days using the NH profiler. We use Linq2NHibernate next-to-exclusive – so, I know, we could have solved the problems, I’m about to describe, using all the other query-mechanisms in NHibernate. First off, there are some NotSupportedExceptions still in the Linq-implementation – e.g. you have [...]
The WPF DataGrid is a monster of a control (just like the DataGridView in Windows Forms is), but some things drive me crazy. They baked a lot of functionality into this control – and then they skipped easy functionality because… well, who knows. Below, I’ll present a few of the ones, I’ve dealt with: CellAlignment [...]
As it might shine through in my previous posts – I have a pragmatic view on TDD. I understand why tests are important – I do tests, but I don’t test everything – maybe I approach 15% test-coverage. I chose to make ERP-systems my speciality – and I land at lousy 15% coverage? Many would [...]
I’m currently making a prototype where I have to show how the final application will look. That means, I have to build basically everything, I would normally build for the ‘real’ application (data, styling and command-logic). This is not my preferred way of working – normally I would build it incrementally – one functionality at [...]
I lurk a lot on StackOverflow – it sometimes strikes me how hard people try to make their problems. Instead of using a simple solution, they will over-engineer it until it becomes impossible to do what they’re trying to accomplish. If you are trying to bind to the parent control via templatebinding and do a [...]
These past few days, I’ve held a company-specific course on NHibernate. It went really well, and I believe the participants also got those few golden eggs that makes the course worthwhile for them. They had been using NHibernate for some time and have specialists abroad – so, it was with some trepidation I approached the [...]
I am reading up on usability at the moment and I passed a usability guru’s website – Jacob Jensen. He has strong opinions – and I like strong opinions and tend to agree with him mostly. Well, that’s up until now – I read an article by him entitled “Google makes you dumber” (link). That [...]
Sometimes, I’m wondering whether anyone is actually reading my posts here at GoblinCave. I realize that many will stop by only once or twice when a google search has turned this way – but I have no idea if there is an audience for the posts I’m writing. So, a quick raise of hands (read: [...]