In part 1 of this series, I talked about the pains that I and my colleagues have experienced when working in code bases that used N-tier data-centric architectures. In this post, I will detail one approach which has allowed me to escape that madness.
You've seen it before. You have been tasked to make a seemingly simple change on a web page. Add a couple of fields, perhaps. Or add new functionality, but still CRUD-like in nature. "Piece of cake," you say.
In this post we are going to see how to deploy a web application on your development machine. The end goal is to have a web application running on the development machine outside of the context of Visual Studio and which is accessible to other devices on a local network.
03 September 2017
This is the second post of my two-part series about designing applications using vertical slices and how the open-source library MediatR can facilitate this design. In the first post we talked about the vertical slices design and how it addresses some of the problems in traditional database table-centric designs. In this post we will see how we can implement a vertical slices design using the open source library MediatR. Put on your programmer hat as we'll dive into some code!
27 August 2017
This is the first of my two-part series about designing applications using vertical slices and how the open-source library MediatR can facilitate this design. In this post we will talk about the concept of vertical slices and in the next post we will look at some sample code that implements this design.
10 June 2017
If you write code on a regular basis, then no doubt you have come across code that is difficult to understand and, consequently, difficult to change. If you're like me, then you will most probably have written bad code yourself! The good news is that writing good code doesn't have to be a complicated exercise. Today I'm going to share some principles and practices that you can use to write maintainable software.
Today I'm giving a tip on how we can remember to follow the Single Responsibility Principle. I'm sure many of you will be able to relate to this tip (at least I surely can!) which is be very, very lazy!
10 December 2016
The good thing about writing software is that you can do anything you like. The bad thing about writing software is that you can do anything you like.
02 June 2016
The Adapter Pattern's intent is "convert the interface of a class into another interface clients expect. Adapter lets classes work together that couldn't otherwise because of incompatible interfaces" (taken from the Design Patterns book). That statement seems intimidating at first, but the core concept is really simple. In fact, I won't be surprised if you are already using this pattern in your application. Let's talk more about it below.
23 May 2016
One of the signposts pointing to clean code is well-organized code files. Contrary to popular belief, aesthetics and organization are important when it comes to writing code, because having organized and structured code improves readability. A piece of code written once will get read multiple times, so it's worth the time to put a little more effort into improving the code's readability. In this post I will be sharing some tips on how to make more organized and readable.
