Contents tagged with General Software Development
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Writing cache based repositories for web application prototyping
When I started building in-house demo application I thought about how to solve temporary data layer so I don’t have to use real database and object mappings for it. Playing with new object model and new components I move way faster if I don’t have any additional ballast that I can avoid. So I wrote simple cache based repository mechanism I can use to imitate real repositories that I will write in the future.
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Windows 7: Links for developers
As Windows 7 is now available to MSDN and TechNet users it is time to give some references for developers who are interested in Windows 7 software development.
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Creating vCard with image in .Net
vCard is popular format for exchanging contacts. Besides e-mail clients also modern mobile phones are able to read and send contacts as vCard. This posting introduces same ideas how to implement vCard support in your applications and how to add images to vCards.
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Documenting source code
Source code documenting is very important task. Code documentation servers as persisted communication between developers who are using same code. Undocumented or poorly documented code may be hard to understand to other developers who have then waste their valuable time to struggling through the code they don’t understand well. In this posting I introduce you some code documenting tips.
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Fighting against GhostDoc abusing
GhostDoc by SubMain is great tool for documenting source code. It is able to generate documentation from methods and properties names. It analyzes names and then offers appropriate description. GhostDoc is also able to use description of interface member that current property or method implements. And it takes only one simple key press.
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Modeling people and organizations: Class Party
Classes for people and organizations are often modeled incorrectly in object models. These faults cause heavy implementation problems. In this posting I will analyze some legacy models, introduce class Party as generalization of people and organizations and provide some implementation details. Information here is based on my own experience, like always.
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Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# – book review
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin describes how to write software using C#. Book covers also most important design patterns and object-oriented development principles. There are very good, close to reality examples for every topic and that makes this book pretty easy to read and understand.
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NHibernate Linq 1.0 is here!
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Packaging my gallery code
In this posting I describe how I prepare my gallery application for automated testing. As a first thing I plan to write some unit tests because some of my classes have now logic to be tested. The other thing is database that is living outside my Visual Studio solution. Let’s make now first steps in my gallery code packaging.
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Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models is another create patterns book by Martin Fowler. The audience of this book are analysts whose work is analysis of information systems and modeling data structures. This book is also recommended reading for programmers and software designers.
