Little Architecture Huddle

" Alexey Karpik reviews JS libraries - Sencha, JQuery, Jo-, frameworks -Rhomobile, M-Project-, and tools -PhoneGap, MoSync, Appcelerator, Antenna-, discussing how they fare with mobile development. "

"C# is a great programming language, but there's still a bevy of features in other programming languages that I often wish were in C#. I'm doing quite a bit of work in F# nowadays, and I thought it would be fun to jot down a few F# features that I really miss when I come back to C#."

"Do you feel that estimating the documentation effort required for a project is nothing short of predicting the future? This view is strengthened when the estimates are inaccurate and the project is plagued with variance in scope and delays in delivery."

"We thank everyone who joined us for Jeff Sutherland's presentation on the Secrets of High Quality Development which is now available on-demand for those who may have missed it. Below, Jeff has answered some of your questions that we did not have time for during the live event. We hope you find it valuable. Please feel free to ask any additional questions in the comments. "

"PetaPoco is a tiny, fast, single-file micro-ORM for .NET and Mono. Like Massive it's a single file that you easily add to any project Unlike Massive it works with strongly typed POCO's Like Massive, it now also supports dynamic Expandos too - read more Like ActiveRecord, it supports a close relationship between object and database table Like SubSonic, it supports generation of poco classes with T4 templates Like Dapper, it's fast because it uses dynamic method generation (MSIL) to assign column values to properties"

"Summary: In this paper we'll look at the new Entity Framework 4 that ships with .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010. I'll discuss how you can approach it's usage from a model-first perspective with the premise that you can drive database design from a model and build both your database as well as your data access layer declaratively from this model. The model contains the description of your data represented as entities and relationships providing a powerful approach to working with ADO.NET, creating a separation of concerns through an abstraction between a model definition and its implementation."

"There are quite of lot of things that I want to put into the framework, but it is functional in its current state. One of the goals for Nancy is to make it run on other environment and platforms, other than ASP.NET / IIS and there are spikes taking place to run it on Mono with FastCGI, making it possible to run on a bunch of other platforms. However, although this is the goal, the current source code does not provide any helpers to make that possible. Right now it only ships with an IHttpHandler that acts as an adaptor between ASP.NET / IIS and the Nancy engine."

"I began writing tests around 8 years ago and I must say this revolutionized my way of developing code. In this blog post, I'd like to group and share several non-trivial feedbacks gained over all these years of practicing real-world testing."

"Fluent Assertions is a set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test. We currently use it in all our internal and client projects, and it is used in many open-source projects."

"This is octalforty Wizardby, a powerful yet easy to use database continuous integration & schema migration framework primarily targeting .NET. The latest release is Alpha 3. "

"Based on DbDeploy, the popular Java version, DbDeploy.Net 2 is written using modern .net technologies and provides support for MsBuild and command line execution."

"I am a believer in the value of testing. However not all tests are equal, and actually not all tests provide value at all. Raise your hand if you've ever seen (unit) tests that tested every corner case of trivial piece of code that's used once in a blue moon in an obscure part of the system. Raise your other hand if that test code was not written by human but generated."

"SisoDb is a document-oriented db-provider for Sql-Server written in C#. It lets you store object graphs of POCOs without having to configure any mappings. Each entity is treated as an aggregate root and will get separate tables created on the fly."

"if(dev) is the vNext.org home page and main blog about whats hot now in the dev world from HTML5 and Android to win8 and Phone7. Want to know what everyone else is into? Trying to stay a breast of the current technologies, then if(dev) is the one blog source for you."

" Jon Skeet loves to hack .NET. He went spelunking into how the new await keyword (part of the new Async CTP) works with the Parallel Task Library in .NET 4.0 and came up with his own implementation of it. This is part one of at least a two-part series. "

"This new toolset and approach will revolutionize the way individuals and organizations: design, build and deploy their repeatable solutions by capturing, incorporating and scaling-out their best practices, knowledge and expertise to increase the consistency, predictability, supportability and maintenance of solutions they deliver. "

"I'll let you in on a secret: I don't care what letter you put in front of "DD." I don't care so much about how code is written or the ins-and-outs of software development. It's not because I don't realize how incredibly important it is - it's because what I care most about is the value delivered. How can what you do save me time, money and/or frustration? I'm smart enough to know that without you - the incredibly talented member of the development team - my life will go into a tailspin. Nothing will work. I realize and appreciate that what you develop creates value for me."

"Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach of how to model the core logic of an application. The term itself was coined by Eric Evans in his book "Domain Driven Design". The basic idea is that the design of your software should directly reflect the Domain and the Domain-Logic of the (business-) problem you want to solve with your application. That helps understanding the problem as well as the implementation and increases maintainability of the software."

" This guide is focused on building highly scalable, highly available, and maintainable applications with the Command & Query Responsibility Segregation and the Event Sourcing architectural patterns. It presents a learning journey, not definitive guidance. It describes the experiences of a development team with no prior CQRS proficiency in building, deploying (to Windows Azure), and maintaining a sample real-world, complex, enterprise system to showcase various CQRS and ES concepts, challenges, and techniques. The development team did not work in isolation; we actively sought input from industry experts and from a wide group of advisors to ensure that the guidance is both detailed and practical. "

"The biggest thing in web apps since "rails can't scale" is this idea that "your rdbms doesn't scale." This has gone so far as to be dubbed the coming of age for "nosql" with lots of blog posts and even a meetup. Indeed, there are many promising key-value stores, distributed key-value stores, document oriented dbs, and column oriented db projects on the radar. This is *definitely* a great thing for the web application scene and this level of variety will definitely open doors for organizations large and small in the near and long term."