Dustin Brown
I'm a software developer who works primarily with .NET and C# - but I love exploring new languages and technologies. I'm passionate about creating software and learning how to do it better.
Command/Query Objects with Dapper
Recently I've been looking to move away from the repository pattern. I always seem to end up with a bunch of classes that end with the word "Repository" but are far from the original intent of the pattern. The classes are large and unwieldy, clearly violating the Single Responsibility Principle.
A recent blog post by Rob Conery . . .
On Comments
When I was first learning to program I was taught that you must comment your code. All good programmers provide nice descriptive comments for everything they write. If you don't comment your code, you're a horrible person.
I took this to heart and heavily commented my code. However, as time went by I noticed some problems with this . . .
My Git Cheat Sheet
Here’s a nice little cheat sheet of the most common commands I’ve been using in Git, to push my changes out to Github:
#change directory to c:\dev\projects cd /c/dev/projects #get the status of current directory git status #stage all pending addes/updates git add . #stage all pending updates/deletes git add -u #commit the changes with a . . .MSDN Gripe
As a .NET developer, I often find myself on the MSDN website. This is a great site with a ton of resources, not least of which is the documentation for the .NET framework.
However I notice that when I Google for something I often find myself trying to avoid links to MSDN, instead looking further down the list hoping for a Stack Overflow . . .
Testing Validation Attributes in ASP.NET MVC
One of the really cool features of MVC 2 is the integration of Data Annotation validation attributes with the model binder. You can add pre-defined validation attributes to your view models (or roll your own) and the validation is automatically performed by the magic that is MVC.
Of course you’ll want to do this using TDD, so I thought I’d . . .
PDC 09 : Days 2 & 3
The past couple days have been pretty crazy. I didn’t have a chance to blog last night because I was too beat after Geekfest!
Here is some random stuff from the past 2 days:
Keynote day 2:
- The Gu gave a great keynote and talked about Silverlight pretty much the entire time. I’m really getting the feeling that this is a big piece the future . . .
PDC 09 : Day 1
Wow, I’m beat. Just got back to the hotel after a full day at the convention. Here are some highlights:
It’s All About the Cloud
This morning’s keynote focused almost entirely on the Windows Azure stack. It seems clear that Microsoft is very serious about Azure and it sounds like it will be a big part of their technology in . . .