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WebForms vs MVC (again) - Karl Seguin

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Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections - Jimmy Bogard
One of the common themes throughout the DDD book is that much of the nuts and bolts of structural domain-driven design is just plain good use of object-oriented programming.  This is certainly true, but DDD adds some direction to OOP, along with roles, stereotypes and patterns.  Much of the direction for building entities at the class level can, and should, come from test-driven development.  TDD is a great tool for building OO systems, as we incrementally build our design with only the behavior that is needed to pass the test.  Our big challenge then is to write good tests.

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Benchmarking: 1-TB table population
In the previous post in the series, I examined the effects of separating the data and log files (one file each) to different RAID arrays. It was very obvious that separation gave a performance boost, and that having the portion of the database with the highest I/O write throughput requirements on the faster array (the 8-drive 15k SCSI RAID10) produced the biggest gain.

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Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel
There’s a ton of content out there in the blogosphere that discuss the virtues of separated presentation patterns including MVVM. I am not going to reiterate those here, but I will point you at Josh Smith’s excellent MVVM article here. I’ll also shamelessly plug my own post where I shared my own view on the essence of MVVM (which is based on views of others i respect). In short it’s about decoupling UI logic for better maintainability which includes making it easier for a graphic designer to style the UI.

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10 Most Influential Software Development Books of the Past 10 Years
My article on the 10 most influential software development books of the past 10 years only appeared in the 2/15 print edition of SD Times.

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Using Mongo With LINQ
Lately I’ve been working with Mongo, creating a C# driver with Karl Seguin and Andrew Theken (and James Avery and Jason Alexander) and today I checked in some optimizations that made me really stoked and I thought I would share.

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NServiceBus 2.0 RTM
There were some small tweaks after the RC2 but I’m happy to say that, all in all, this was a very quiet stabilization period. Key customers have reported very high levels of satisfaction with the NServiceBus stability, scalability, and simplicity

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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC « Steve Sanderson
Behaviour Driven Development retains the basic red-green workflow, but dramatically puts the emphasis on specifying behaviours that are understandable to people (often, business domain experts). It addresses questions such as “How much should I specify?” and “How should I organise and name my specifications so they are most useful?”

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Message-Based Systems for Maintainable, Asynchronous Development - Billy McCafferty
In Architectural Paradigms of Robotic Control, a number of architectures were reviewed including deliberative, reactive, and hybrid architectures.  Each of these exhibit a clean separation of concerns with layering and encapsulation of defined behaviors.  When implemented, the various capabilities, such as planners and mobility controllers, are encapsulated into discrete components for better reusability and maintainability.  A pivotal aspect not discussed in the previous article is how the various system layers and components communicate with each other, such as reporting sensor feedback and sending commands to actuator controllers.  Effectively resolving this communication challenge is not only important to robotic systems but to many other industries and domains for the successful integration of disparate applications.

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1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight - Christopher Bennage

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