Demystifying The Code

The SOLID Principles Video Series

RobBagby — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:47:56 +0000

I have just released the final video in my 5-part series on the SOLID Principles of software development. These videos are free to watch at www.DevEducate.com/series. You simply have to create an account with your email address and a password. That is all. SOLID is an acronym coined by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob). SOLID Stands [...]

My Experience with EventDay

RobBagby — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:28:20 +0000

As many of you know, I am hosting a developer event in March. After I agreed to host the event came the scramble. I needed to find a venue and build a website to promote it and handle registration. After a few disappointments, I was able to secure the Pointe Hilton at Squaw Peak as [...]

DDD Arizona – Event on March 21st in Phoenix

RobBagby — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:39:33 +0000

Mark your calendars! On March 21 from 12:00 – 5:00, I will be hosting a developer / architect event at The Pointe Squaw Peak. Click here to Register. (DDD stands for Developer! Developer! Developer!) For those of you that don’t know, I have recently returned to Phoenix, after a 4 year stint in London. There, I [...]

Acceptance Tests Don’t Replace Unit Tests

RobBagby — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:30:49 +0000

I read a post last week that was celebrating (among other things) one developers epiphany that unit tests were a waste of time. He focused on acceptance tests and that was all that mattered. His case was that his boss and customers only care about the end result and not the unit test suite. He [...]

Helper Classes Are A Code Smell

RobBagby — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:45:37 +0000

I recently made one of those sweeping statements to some of my colleagues that almost always come back to bite you on the …: It was something to the effect of: "Having the word ‘Helper’ in a class name is a code smell." A pretty big debate ensued and I challenged them (and you) to [...]

Books Every Programmer Should Read

RobBagby — Thu, 31 May 2012 06:14:49 +0000

I love reading technical books and I have read alot of them! A handful of these books have had a profound impact on the way in which I write code. I thought I would share these rare gems with you. I highly recommend each of the following books! Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship [...]

OpenDBDiff – OS tool for SQL Server Schema Comparisons

RobBagby — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:00:07 +0000

I can’t think of the last project I was involved in where I didn’t have to do schema comparisons between differing databases to generate diff scripts. Sometimes I have a local copy of the DB on my laptop that I need to synch with a dev database. Other times I have to create the scripts [...]

Do You NCrunch Yet?

RobBagby — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:58:46 +0000

If you haven’t heard of NCrunch, you are in for a great surprise. Over the past few years, a friend and colleague of mine, Remco Mulder, has been slaving away on NCrunch. What is NCrunch? In my opinion, it is the most powerful Visual Studio plugin available. It is designed to help developers with TDD [...]

Using the Builder Pattern in tests

RobBagby — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:48:02 +0000

One of the most painful parts of writing tests is creating test data. Whether you use mocking frameworks or write your own fakes, one thing is constant… you will find yourself creating object instances over and over. You have to create inputs to the methods you are testing, return values for stubs or mocks, data [...]

Twas the Release Before Christmas

RobBagby — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:03:11 +0000

A geekier rendition of Twas the Night Before Christmas was just posted on the devEducate blog.

Entity Framework Modeling: Table Splitting

RobBagby — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:31:22 +0000

I have released a new post in the Entity Framework series at deveducate.com. The post illustrates how to take advantage of Table Splitting in Entity Framework 4.

I’m Baaaaaack

RobBagby — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:35:05 +0000

You may be wondering where I have been lately and why I haven’t been posting. Well, I have great news. I’m back blogging, but at a new location: www.deveducate.com/blog.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 – Available Today

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:31:38 +0000

Today is a big day for developers. We released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 to MSDN Subscribers (it will be available generally on Microsoft.com later in the week). Please visit the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 landing page here to download. Happy coding…

Patterns-Based Silverlight Development Blog / Screencast Series Index

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:16:00 +0000

I am in the midst of putting together a blog / screencast series illustrating developing Silverlight 3 application, taking advantage of various design patterns. Some of the patterns we will cover are the Repository, the Pipeline, the Service Agent and Model View ViewModel. I will be building a Sample HelpDesk Application along the way (see below).

Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part III – Pipeline Pattern

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:48:51 +0000

In yesterday’s post, I build our Repository interface and the implementation, as well as added some server-side validation, following a simple pattern. I also added a test project and wrote some tests to test the our validation logic. In this post I will implement the Pipeline pattern. I will then implement a fake repository and use it to test our Pipeline.