One of the tangent patterns associated with isolation or Single Responsibility is the Strategy Pattern. I use Castle Windsor as my IoC of choice and I had hoped there was some black magic built in to make the Strategy Pattern dead simple. Turns out there is and there isn’t. What is the Strategy Pattern The [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Registration has opened for the 2nd Annual Dog Food conference in Columbus, OH. SDS is excited to be a sponsor and presenter this year and I hope you have a chance to come by and see some of the topics everyone has planned. I plan to be there as an observer both days and a [...]
A Reminder Of Our Values
Oct 28
Steve Gentile recently had a thinking out loud moment by posting the Agile Manifest as a reminder to himself of what he values. It’s really important to constantly put these types of reminders in front of ourselves as we work in environments that don’t necessarily breed best practices. The contractual obligations of the business world [...]
Size versus Duration
Oct 27
Scrum introduces the concept of Story Points which most teams immediately misunderstand or discard. The most elegant wrong explanation I’ve heard for not using story points was: “we never liked story points, because then we had to communicate and teach our customers a whole new currency.” Fortunately, this isn’t true. Unforunately, the reason many find [...]
I’ve had this nagging issue for some time now with WPF views that are registered for an interface. The Views themselves are WPF UserControls: namespace SomeApp.Views { public partial class SearchView : UserControl, ISearchView { public SearchView() { InitializeComponent(); } private void InitializeComponent() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } } I would love to [...]