Tag Archives: Patterns
Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns
Talking with John Papa, Senior Technical Evangelist, about MVVM and Patterns 5 Simple Steps for MVVM Keeping up with the community Top blogs MVVM Light Ward Bell’s photos Grok. Verb: To fully understand. See Stranger In A Strange Land by … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Data, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged BestPractices, Patterns, YapCast
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Programmer Superstitions
There are a number of practices that we engage in –– no, that we cling to, and defend, and teach to others, – that amount to magical thinking, or at best, rational failure. This is often just fine, no harm … Continue reading
Coding Without A Net
I recently imposed on myself the constraint of coding without comments. Why?
* Comments rust faster than code, even when you’re careful
* Well written code can be read, and comments are annoying footnotes
* Comments make for lazy coding
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Silverlight As A Transmedia Platform
The advent of Windows Phone 7 is particularly exciting to current Silverlight programmers, because Silverlight (along with .xna) is the development platform for the new phone. I recently recorded two Silverlight TV episodes, and in one I created a typical … Continue reading
Posted in HyperVideo Player, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Patterns, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid*
[ Revised with C# and VB.NET code] Okay, first, understand that I’m in the position of running through the streets yelling at folks “c’mere! ya’ gotta see this!” and what I’m pointing to is the incredible new invention of… a … Continue reading
MEF, Silverlight and the HVP
This article is part of the Mini-Tutorial Series Executive Summary This article continues the design and exploration phase of the Silverlight HVP project by beginning to examine the role the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) will play in solving a number … Continue reading
Silverlight HVP on Silverlight TV
The Silverlight HyperVideo Project has made two guest appearances on Silverlight TV. In the first, I talk with John Papa about the project itself and how it has evolved. Then, during Mix, Tim Heuer and I sat down with … Continue reading
When Is It OK To Hack?
This mini-tutorial is part of the SLHVP documentation One of the goals of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project is to demonstrate best practices. So when is it okay to throw in a quick hack to get things working?
Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers
This posting is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform documentation and a Silverlight Mini-tutorial. The information in this posting, however, should be of interest to anyone writing meaningful Line of Business applications with Silverlight. The premise of the classic 1956 … Continue reading
Rapidly Evolving Design
The problem with using a blog to track a rapidly evolving design, is that blogs don’t make for very fluid documents; the unwritten rule is that once posted, you ought not go back and substantially alter a post. Matching Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractices, Patterns
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Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II
At the end of Test Driven Body Snatchers I promised to follow up with a walkthrough of real-world Test Driven Development. What gets into me? Well, a promise is a promise. Walking Through Test Driven Development … Continue reading
