Archive for July, 2009

BASIC AMQP illustrated

Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Koiti Takahashi

After a little more than one year of heavy code production and few innovations, although I could explore some interesting stuff like WCF and RESTful, our team finally got a time to “invent” something new. This time, we have to rewrite a legacy system (mainly a single stored procedure *arghh*) that verifies the clients with [...]

TDD - Beyond The Buzzwords

Posted on July 26th, 2009 by macskeptic

The "Beyond The Buzzwords" series is focused on giving those who are starting to write automated tests a practical overview, so that they begin to get a grasp on the mechanics of doing it. Also, to encourage those who don’t do it yet to begin doing so. That said, the idea is to not be [...]

BDD - Beyond the Buzzwords

Posted on July 24th, 2009 by macskeptic

This post is going to be the first of a series "Beyond The Buzzwords" of two (maybe three). This being a subject that has been getting some hype everywhere now doesn’t seem to be the kind of thing you would normally see here. We generally like to talk about the state of the art, and [...]

The Repository Pattern

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by macskeptic

Today’s post is about more than a simple punctual matter that I’ve come across at some moment in my day to day activities or on my restless nights of endless hacking.
Despise my overall remarkable programmer geekiness, I am first and foremost a philosopher. As a consequence to that, I love to I/O - big essays [...]