Raymond Lewallen

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• Alt.Net does NOT equal Anti-Microsoft

  I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't... Posted Sep 24 2007, 08:08 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Agile, Alt.Net, Featured, OOP, Patterns and Practices, TDD

• Common Design Patterns Solution File from my presentations

  Sorry, I thought I had put this up. This is the solution file that contains the quick presentation and simple examples on some common and basic design patterns. This is quite the popular presentation, and I'll be doing it again April 2nd at the Oklahoma... Posted Mar 29 2007, 02:19 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development, User Groups

• Another big splash in Redmond - NStatic

  NStatic is a tool I have followed for quite some time now, eagerly awaiting for it to become available for use. I spoke with Wesner Moise , the creator of NStatic, and he mentioned the date will be very soon. For those of you who don't know, NStatic is... Posted Mar 18 2007, 07:24 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• NDepend makes a huge splash in Redmond

  I couldn't be happier for my friend Patrick Smacchia - the creator of NDepend . Anybody who knows me knows that I am NDepend's biggest fan, other than Patrick himself, and really, really want to see the product hit mainstream use and make Patrick rich... Posted Mar 17 2007, 10:29 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Patterns are not buzzwords

  buzz·word A word or phrase connected with a specialized field or group that usually sounds important or technical and is used primarily to impress laypersons: "'Sensitivity' is the buzzword in the beauty industry this fall" (ADWEEK... Posted Feb 27 2007, 07:31 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Speaking at Tulsa Code Camp on March 10th

  For those of you in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, North Texas, North Arkansas areas, the 1st annual Tulsa Code Camp will be Saturday, March 10th, 2007. The central theme is .Net 3.0/3.5. There are already several great speakers setup. I'm going to be... Posted Feb 21 2007, 08:48 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with no comments Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Controller != code-behind

  This always drives me nuts. I'm working on a brand spankin new project that has zero code, so a co-worker and I are working on how we want to address the MVP implementation. So lately I'm reading up on new ideas that people have come with since... Posted Feb 20 2007, 09:05 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, TDD, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Presenting to North Dallas User's Group on Wednesday, Feb. 7th.

  Yes, if you are in the Dallas area, I will be presenting to NDDUG tomorrow evening. Title: Designing Frameworks - The Do's and Do Not's Abstract: Designing frameworks can be very tricky. There are so many things to consider when designing an API that... Posted Feb 06 2007, 07:35 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development, User Groups

• New version and new refactorings from Refactor Pro

  Yep, the guys at Developer Express have released version 2.1 of their popular tools CodeRush, Refactor Pro and of course DxCore . I'm especially excited about the Refactor Pro because of the new refactorings available, some of them specific for Asp... Posted Jan 16 2007, 09:26 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Don't Miss TechFest 2006 coming in October!

  Ok, its time that you start making plans to attend TechFest 2006 , in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 14th. I will be presenting 2 sessions of my own: setting up a continuous integration server with CruiseControl.Net in the Extras track 1, and also... Posted Sep 19 2006, 11:07 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Patterns and Practices, .Net Development, OOP, Sql Development, TDD

• Avoid breaking your API - pay attention to your constructors.

  I was playing with a document coverter API a few months ago to do some PDF to Word conversions. I had some code already built into a console app to use that version and it was working fine. Last night I went and downloaded their latest version, and wouldn... Posted May 11 2006, 07:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, OOP

• NDepend 2.0 has been released.

  Many of you have heard me talk about NDepend on numerous blog posts and speaking engagements. I hope to be able to do full presentations during the summer to various user groups on NDepend. Good news is here: NDepend 2.0 has been released with some major... Posted Apr 05 2006, 12:10 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, OOP, Patterns and Practices