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Strategy Pattern & Dependency Injection abuse.

I thought I would share in this post my thoughts on a design pattern that has changed the way I write code. The beauty is in the simplicity of this pattern. It's easy to implement and doesn't unnecessarily complicate the problem domain, in fact it simplifies it and leads you gently towards the...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 09-01-2010
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 5

1. John De Vos, David Hill & Ajoy Krishnamoorthy - P&P Looking ahead : These guys are the P&P architects and they wanted to know how we felt about the current set of Enterprise Library tools. They also did a bit of horn blowing by providing us with the general usage statistics for the Enterprise...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 11-07-2008
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 4

1. Keynote - David Treadwell: This talk focused on cloud computing and David gave a demonsration of the how a "mesh" application would work. 2. David Hill & Kyle Huntley - Composition and presentation patterns : What a brilliant talk! David and Kyle took us through a WPF/Silverlight applicaton...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 11-07-2008
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 3

1. Keynote - Pat Helland : Pat gave a brilliant speech on the energy consumption of data centers. He gave us insight into the setup of Microsofts data centers and the strategies Microsoft use to conserve energy and keep costs low. This was an unexpected subject, but Pat is somebody definitely worth keeping...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 11-06-2008
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 2

1. Keynote - Kent Beck : - This guy is the father of XP programming. The talk he gave was about the philosopy behind problem solving, and a few key techniques we can use to tackle problems. They were. a) Have the guts to make the LEAP sometimes. b) Somtimes its critical to SIMPLIFY c) Sometimes it's...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 11-05-2008
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 1

1. Keynot Jeff Teper - This guy did an overview of sharepoint and the future of the product. 2. Functional programming - Erik Meijer : I've been looking forward to this talk for a while. Erik M. is one of the architects that works with Anders H. Erik gave some brilliant insight into the evolution...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 11-03-2008
Patterns & Practices Summit 2008

I will be attending the Patterns and Practices summit 2008, which starts next week. A list of speakers http://www.pnpsummit.com/west2008/west2008.aspx General topics http://www.pnpsummit.com/West2008/west2008sessions.aspx I attended the 2005 patterns and practices summit(the year before I joined m35...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 10-31-2008
Defining the service layer dependency tree using UML Sequence diagrams and the Dependency Injection pattern

UML sequence diagrams can be used to identify interfaces for an application's Service layers which in turn can be used to generate a service layer dependency tree. When designing an OO application there are three different object types to consider, in accordance with UML standards and robustness...

Posted to Jean Hibbert's Blog (Weblog) by jean on 12-18-2007

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