Ryan Cromwell

Strategy Pattern with Castle Windsor

ryan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:37:56 +0000

One of the tangent patterns associated with isolation or Single Responsibility is the Strategy Pattern. I use Castle Windsor as my IoC of choice and I had hoped there was some black magic built in to make the Strategy Pattern dead simple. Turns out there is and there isn’t. What is the Strategy Pattern The strategy pattern [...]

Dog Food II Registration Open

ryan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:55:41 +0000

Registration has opened for the 2nd Annual Dog Food conference in Columbus, OH. SDS is excited to be a sponsor and presenter this year and I hope you have a chance to come by and see some of the topics everyone has planned. I plan to be there as an observer both days and a [...]

A Reminder Of Our Values

ryan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:56:50 +0000

Steve Gentile recently had a thinking out loud moment by posting the Agile Manifest as a reminder to himself of what he values. It’s really important to constantly put these types of reminders in front of ourselves as we work in environments that don’t necessarily breed best practices. The contractual obligations of the business world [...]

Size versus Duration

ryan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Scrum introduces the concept of Story Points which most teams immediately misunderstand or discard. The most elegant wrong explanation I’ve heard for not using story points was: “we never liked story points, because then we had to communicate and teach our customers a whole new currency.” Fortunately, this isn’t true. Unforunately, the reason many find story points [...]

Registering WPF “Views” with Windsor Fluent API

ryan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:06:54 +0000

I’ve had this nagging issue for some time now with WPF views that are registered for an interface. The Views themselves are WPF UserControls: namespace SomeApp.Views { public partial class SearchView : UserControl, ISearchView { public SearchView() [...]

Wake up: Code & Coffee tomorrow morning

ryan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:39:47 +0000

Fellow SDS’er @derekhubbard and his buddy @cschroll have been hosting a weekly Tuesday morning Code & Coffee gathering at Caribou Coffee at The Greene in Kettering, OH. Tomorrow, Sept 22nd at 7:15am, we continue the SOLID principles. It’s a great way to start your day, so come by if you can make it.

Injecting a WCF Channel as Dependency via Windsor

ryan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:45:41 +0000

When working within a closed system which uses WCF and an IoC container you will often find the following pattern: What happens is the SomeAppService is often, but not always, a very thin wrapper over the WCF Service. If you own both ends of this scenario its often nice to remove the WCF layer between. [...]

1 reason to stick with Windows Virtual PC

ryan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:27:28 +0000

For those who aren’t aware, Windows 7 (which I absolutely love) has the ability to mount and run native Virtual PC VHD’s. This is huge, but it isn’t exactly a cake walk. That is until now! DevHawk has provided a PowerShell script to make life beautiful. Never complain about your Virtual machine performance again… get [...]

Property Undo/Redo Support

ryan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:06:03 +0000

Undo/Redo support is one of those golden features that really differentiate a client app from many web apps. There have been a number of methods/techniques to provide this support that I’ve run across from brute force, to the memento pattern, but none that lit any fire for me. Here’s my answer to the problem using Anonymous [...]

Cin-Day Nerd Dinner Reminder

ryan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:50:27 +0000

This is just a quick reminder that tomorrow (April 2nd) we will be having our first Cin-Day Nerd Dinner. If you are planning on coming, but haven’t RSVP’ed please do so here so that I can warn Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester of the raucous crowd to be expected. Can’t wait to see everyone.