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C# 3.0 Cookbook Published
O’Reilly has published the third edition of the C# 3.0 Cookbook bestseller. The book has been updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform. It contains more than 250 recipes for problems programmers encounter every day.
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Injecting Implementation Dependencies into WCF Services
A very popular concept of implementing WCF services is to use a layered approach that consists of a service, a business logic and a data access layer. The dependencies between these layers might be injected at runtime via dependency injection containers.
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Does lines of code kill?
Steve Yegge touched a nerve in the development community when he argued that keeping the code size to an absolute minimum is the most important thing when developing software. In his view, you may have to sacrifice some design patterns and avoid refactoring at times just to keep the lines of code down. And if your problem is large enough - you may have to switch to another programming language.
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Does Dependency Injection pay off?
There has been an interesting discussion in the blogosphere about the benefits or lack of benefits from using Dependency Injection. The question is — does Dependency Injection really pay off?
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Martin Fowler unveils details of his upcoming DSL book
Martin Fowler unveiled some details about his upcoming book on DSLs through his Work In Progress gateway. In the draft of its introductory part, Fowler gives an example of a Domain Specific Language case and provides some new insights on DSLs, their implementation and use.
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Confusing unit-of-work with threads
Most server-side applications and many desktop applications contains data that is tied to a particular task that’s being executed. A common solution is to keep that kind of data in thread-local storage; to keep the data in variables bound to the executing thread. Convenient, but a practice based on a faulty assumption.
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Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Volumes 4 and 5 released
Volume 4 and 5 in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture book series has been released. Volume 4 is about a pattern language for distributed computing and volume 5 is an in-depth look of what patterns are, what they are not, and how to use them successfully. InfoQ spoke to the authors to find out more.
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The "use" Binding In F# and How It Should Be Applied To C# and VB
Possible enhancements for F# show how VB and C# can also change in the future.
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Gang of Four Design Patterns - Does it stand the test of time?
More than a decade ago by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides known as the Gang of Four (GoF) published their seminal book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software". The GoF book, which is considered the harbinger of the whole software patterns movement, has recently been criticized as no longer relevant.
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Does software design really pay off?
Many developers have encountered a situation where they’ve been asked to cut down on design and "just get the job done". Martin Fowler presented his doubts about this strategy and explained trading design quality for speed is illusory for projects longer than just a few weeks.
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Article: Bridging the gap between BI and SOA
Business intelligence (BI) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have conflicting principles and needs. "Bridging the gap between BI & SOA" demonstrates how to reconcile the differences
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Applying REST Principles to Complex Applications
In a blog post, REST expert Joe Gregorio shows how to apply REST principles to complex applications, using the Apache DayTrader Benchmark, which requires reliable delivery of orders, as an example.
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Guice and JavaConfig: Two Approaches to IoC through Annotations
Now that the dust has settled a bit from the initial release of Guice, the comparisons with Spring IoC and specifically with Spring JavaConfig are available. Guice and JavaConfig offer different approaches on putting IoC configuration into code using Java annotations.
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Guice: Fast and Light Dependency Injection Container
Guice is a new open-source Dependency Injection framework for Java 5 that is closing in on a 1.0 release. Guice is a very annotation-driven, lightweight framework that provides an alternative to Spring, for a certain set of features.
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InfoQ Book: Domain Driven Design Quickly
Despite the importance of Domain Driven Design, not many people are aware of it, which is why InfoQ commissioned the writing of a 100 page mini-book: Domain Driven Design Quickly. Like all InfoQ books is available for free download as well as print-purchase. The book is a short, quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD.