On the DDD user group, there has been endless discussions about whether a service or repository can be directly called by classes that are part of the domain model. There is a group of people that believe that this is just fine and then there are a group of people who believe that this violates [...]

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This picture is from Friday night’s wedding. Congratulations to Jarod and Katy Ferguson. May you have a long and happy life.

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Here’s hoping that this will help someone else.  I’ve been working on a project for the past few months using LINQ to SQL vs. a Legacy database (and I do mean “vs.”). Today I ran into updates on a particular table throwing IndexOutOfRangeExceptions.
All you’re trying to do is update some instance generated from  a LTS [...]

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… I wrote my very first blog post (in Dutch). I’ve learned a lot of stuff since then. Time really flies, I must say.
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Yesterday I got back from a refreshing holiday in Italy. First thing I noticed after opening my RSS reader was that NHibernate 2.0 got released. Aah, life couldn’t get any better. Kudos to Fabio Maulo and the gang for all the hard work.
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I’ve been helping here and there with a C++ developer get attuned to C# and web development lately.   I’ve talked with C++ developers a number of times through the years and I tend to get the same sentiments over and over
1. that C++ is the most efficient language out there and nothing else can compete.
2. [...]

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I first need to mention, this post is intended to be and interactive one as I will be posting a question to all the readers at the end, looking for some good feedback to help me with my training plan at work.
I am always amazed at the lack of personal responsibility many (the large majority) [...]

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I recently watched a video on InfoQ from Agile 2008.  It was Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson entitled “Natural Laws of Software Development - Deriving Agile Practices“.  Concerning Agile practices, the cast was somewhat elementary.  However, If you are new to Agile, I would highly recommend it.  Personally, I found a few nuggets.
Mr. Jeffries said [...]

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I finally got my new desktop up-and-running and fully installed. Last weekend, me and my dear colleague Sven Erkens (kudos!) assembled the different parts to what became a lean, mean development machine. Here are the specs:

Case
Antec Midi Tower Sonata III Life Style ATX 500W

Motherboard
MSI P45 Platinum iP45, SATA2 RAID, GLAN, Crossfire

CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 [...]

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Mark Miller, bad boy of .Net, Millinater of Mondays, and Chief Architect for DevExpress, C# MVP, and living legend joined us here on the Elegant Code Cast.
Do I even need to tell you about the show?

Elevator buttons
WPF
Controlling Windows with your eyeballs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle robots

This one has it all. And you know what? Besides being stuffed [...]

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