Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Well the cat is out of the bag. I am really excited to have been invited to move this blog over to the CodeBetter site. I met up with some of the CodeBetter team last year, and discovered that we … Continue reading →

Forms and Leaky Abstractions   The model on Windows for rich-client programming is event-driven. Your window waits for a message, which is dispatched to a handler method it has registered with the OS (the Window Procedure). Frameworks hide this complexity … Continue reading →

Monorail and ASP.NET MVC Now, if you are sold on the principle of clean separation of your model, view and controller, and you want to start using application controllers and separated views then you could roll your own implementation. A … Continue reading →

Scott Gu has a post describing the ASP.NET MVC framework that he presented on an altnetconf and you can see the video of that presentation on Scott Hanselman’s site. A lot of the noise has assumed that you comprehend what … Continue reading →

I’m always amazed at the number of people that believe that if you are doing agile you do not do analysis or design. What changes with agile is not whether you do them, but when you do them or to … Continue reading →

Thanks to everyone at NextGenUG for letting me come up to talk about Monorail last night.

The line up is out. I’ll confirm venue details soon. Feel free to sign up. Time 18:30 – 21:30 Office as a development platform with Visual Studio 2008 – Daniel Moth The 2007 Microsoft Office System is extensible like never … Continue reading →

Just to let you know that registration for DDD6 is now live. Usually it fills up fast, so you may want to register now. There is a little bit of lag getting the agenda up… soon.

As I am sure many of you know, the community sets the agenda for DDD6. The proposed sessions are now in and submission is closed. So now it is time to vote on what you want to see on the … Continue reading →

Location: TonyBee Hall Time: 18:30 – 21:30   The Importance of Application SecurityChris Seary ‘Why is application security so important now? Chris will discuss why the onus is on developers to produce secure systems.We’ll look at what hackers can do … Continue reading →