The war of the var keyword continues

Posted 9 months ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Asp.Net Programming

I don't know how many times I have read articles about the var keyword, and how "dangures" it is to the readability of your code. Yesterday Steve Wellens wrote about how misused the keyword is. I have to say that I couldn't disagree more. First of all his example isn't a real world exampl ...

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Why code blocks in the UI is a good thing

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: ASP.Net MVC Asp.Net Programming Patterns

A very common argument against the asp.net mvc framework is that people don't want to use server side code in the same place as you have the html code. Some say it makes the code unreadable or that it is a step backwards in development and closer to asp 3. In my opinion, this is a very thin argument ...

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What I look for in a ORM

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: NHibernate SQL ORM Programming

In just about every application I build that use a relational database, I also use a orm tool to handle my data access. The reason I do this is to save myself the time it takes to handroll a data access layer in ADO.Net and to eliminate buggs that can come from writing sql queries. I do have a few t ...

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Promise only what you can keep

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Programming

When I write a method I often try using interfaces as return type and parameters, as long as it's not a method that should return a domain object. The reason for this is that I don't wan't to promis to much to the calling code. The parameters to your method should be of the lowest type in the inher ...

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Do not be afraid of adding new files to a project

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Programming

Is it wrong to have a lot of files in a project? Is it hard to maintain a application that has a lot of files? Well, my answer to those two questions is: No, It is not. Its quite the opposit in my opinion. In my opinion a file should only have one public type, and be named after that. This makes it ...

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Fluent twitter search API

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Programming

The other day I was working on a application at work that needed to use the twitter search api. I Figured I might just as well build a small wrapper for the api as I will probably use it in other applications as well. I decided to make a fluent interface, as I think that is the most readable way of ...

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A application isnt stronger then its weakest layer

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Asp.Net Programming

When you want to increse the preformance of one of your web applications, what is the first thing you look at? For many developers, the answer is the data access. How can I write this query in a more sufficiant way, so that I can get preformance gain? In my expreiance, we tend to think that this is ...

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Building a forum application, Part 8

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Programming

This is the eighth part in a series of posts where I build a forum application. The other posts can be found here: Building a forum application, Part 1 Building a forum application, Part 2 Building a forum application, Part 3 Building a forum application, Part 4 Building ...

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All your code is abstractions

Posted 1 years ago by Jakobsson
Filed under: Programming

A few days ago I read this post, in wich Jeff Atwood writes about abstractions, and how they all "leak" in one way or another. This is true, as a abstraction solves the generic problem, not our specific one. One thing we seem to forgett, however, is that all code we write is acctually a ab ...

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