3 August, 2012. It was a Friday. I’ve been talking about this for what seems like an eternity in Internet time: earlier this week my 4 part screencast series on Backbone.js was released through ...

1 February, 2013. It was a Friday. I was fortunate enough to be the first guest on the Upfront Podcast this week. It’s a new podcast hosted by Jack Franklin and Ben Howdle, focused on all things front ...

19 July, 2016. It was a Tuesday. To help those building applications using the new Microsoft DI libraries (used in Orleans, ASP.NET Core, etc.), I pushed out a helper package to register all of your ...

19 April, 2010. It was a Monday. If you’re using Double Dispatch in your code, this may be a symptom of an underlying design issue which may impact the maintainability of your application. Due to the ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the conversation took several ...

This is the fifth installment to the series: RabbitMQ for Windows. In the last installment, we took a look at the four exchange types provided by RabbitMQ: Direct, Fanout, Topic, and Headers. In this ...

17 February, 2012. It was a Friday. If you write any code in JavaScript then you’ve probably used closures, but do you actually understand what they are and how they work? Taking the time to ...

This post is intentionally simplistic to help explain tradeoffs that need to be made. If you are looking for some production level nuance go read this afterwords. Batches in Cassandra are often ...

In my opinion Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is one of the most useful architectural patterns when used in the context of a complex line of business application (LOB). Martin Fowler ...

20 July, 2012. It was a Friday. One of the mistakes I see people make (and have made myself) is assuming that you must choose exactly one ORM strategy for an entire database/application/system. It’s ...

30 August, 2012. It was a Thursday. I used to care quite a bit about project structure in applications. Trying to enforce logical layering through physical projects, I would start off a project by ...