Is Pizza Brain Food?

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My family and I recently moved into our new home after a two month stay in temporary housing. One of the perks of moving is when your stuff is delivered from storage, it feels like Christmas again. “Oooh! Look at all the boxes I get to unwrap. Hey! I have a Stereo just like this one!”.

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A Few Notes About The MVC CodePlex Source Code Release

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Whew! I’ve held off writing about MVC until I could write a non-MVC post in response to some constructive criticism (It’s not just Sean, Jeff mentioned something to me as well). Now that I’ve posted that, perhaps I’ve bought myself a few MVC related posts in a row before the goodwill runs dry and I have to write something decidedly not MVC related again. ;)

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ASP.NET Routing Debugger

UPDATE: I’ve added a NuGet package named “routedebugger” to the NuGet feed, which will make it much easier to install.

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Using Routing With WebForms

UPDATE: I updated the sample to work with the final version of ASP.NET Routing included with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. This sample is now being hosted on CodePlex.

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Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Beyond

At this year’s Mix conference, we announced the availability of the second preview for ASP.NET MVC which you can download from here. Videos highlighting MVC are also available.

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Back From Mix Back To Reality

You don’t so much return from Las Vegas as you recover from Las Vegas.

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The Cost Of Breaking Changes

broken-glass One interesting response to my series on versioning of interfaces and abstract base classes is the one in which someone suggested that we should go ahead and break their code from version to version. They’re fine in requiring a recompile when upgrading.

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Versioning Issues With Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces

Eilon Lipton recently wrote a bit about context objects in ASP.NET MVC and in an “Oh by the way” moment, tossed out the fact that we changed the IHttpContext interface to the HttpContextBase abstract base class (ABC for short).

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Abstract Base Classes Have Versioning Problems Too

This is part 2 in an ongoing series in which I talk about various design and versioning issues as they relate to Abstract Base Classes (ABC), Interfaces, and Framework design. In part 1 I discussed some ways in which ABCs are more resilient to versioning than interfaces. I haven’t covered the full story yet and will address some great points raised in the comments.

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ASP.NET MVC Update

By the way my blogging frequency has declined, you can guess I’ve been quite busy here at Microsoft preparing for the next release of ASP.NET MVC.

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Blocking Direct Access To Views in ASP.NET MVC

UPDATE: I improved this based on some feedback in my comments.

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Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains

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If you know me, you know I go through great pains to write automated unit tests for my code. Some might even call me anal about it. Those people know me too well.

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So A Model, A View, and a Controller Walk Into a Bar

At the risk of embarrassing myself and eliciting more groans, I am going to share a joke I made up for my Code Camp talk. I was inspired to come up with some humor based on Jeff’s Sesame Street Presentation Rule post. I fully understand his post was addressing something deeper than simply telling a gratuitous joke in the presentation.

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Come Work With Me And Other Great People

The ASP.NET and Silverlight team are hiring! Brad Abrams (who happens to be my “grand-boss” as in my boss’s boss) posted a developers wanted ad on his blog:

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Seattle Code Camp Wrapup

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camping The Seattle Code Camp (which despite the misleading photo, isn’t a camping trip) is now over and I have nothing but good things to say about it. I didn’t get a chance to see a lot of talks but did enjoy the xUnit.net talk by Jim Newkirk and Brad Wilson. I’m a fan of their approach to providing extensibility and this session provided all the impetus I needed to really give xUnit.net a try rather than simply talking about trying it. :)

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Birthday Clusters and Code Camps

Well today I turn old. 33 years old to be exact. A day after Hanselman turns really old. It seems I’m always following in that guy’s footsteps doesn’t it?

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Research Supports The Effectiveness of TDD

In a recent post, Frans Bouma laments the lack of computer science or reference to research papers by agile pundits in various mailing lists (I bet this really applies to nearly all mailing lists, not just the ones he mentions).

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TDD Is Also An Organizational Process

After joining Microsoft and drinking from the firehose a bit, I’m happy to report that I am still alive and well and now residing in the Seattle area along with my family. In meeting with various groups, I’ve been very excited by how much various teams here are embracing Test Driven Development (and its close cousin, TAD aka Test After Development). We’ve had great discussions in which we really looked at a design from a TDD perspective and discussed ways to make it more testable. Teams are also starting to really apply TDD in their development process as a team effort, and not just sporadic individuals.

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Collection Initializers

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File this in my learn something new every day bucket. I received an email from Steve Maine after he read a blog post in which I discuss the anonymous object as dictionary trick that Eilon came up with.

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So Long L.A. And Thanks For All The Fish

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