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Lunchage: Wrapping the Domain with NHibernate 3.2
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Lunchage: Wrapping the Domain with NHibernate 3.2

Unless you live under a rock or really really really enjoy hand-writing every SQL query you make, chances are you've come across an ORM that maps your domain model to a data storage mechanism.  For Lunchage we're opting to use NHibernate mostly out of familiarity, but also to try out the new "auto-mapping" functionality that eliminates the need for .hbm files or a third-party utility like Fluent NHibernate.
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Naming and Organizing can be so Satisfying
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Naming and Organizing can be so Satisfying

To this day it puzzles me that the most important organizational decision that you can make is so often overlooked. Whenever I bring up the importance of naming and proper organizing of projects and namespaces, I get scuffed at. And who out there really knows what the RIGHT way is? I say I don't but I have a vague idea of what the right way will be for Lunchage, at least till "new shit comes to light".
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Standards! Why and How!
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Standards! Why and How!

Standards are important!  Developers read more code than they write. Code style standards define how your code looks, they create polarized debates with shouts and battle axes being brandished. Whatever your process is, come up with standards. In my years of development, I found that if it's simple to keep the code standard then the standard will be followed, opposite applies double and triple.
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Application Planning, Mock-Ups
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Application Planning, Mock-Ups

Mock-ups are an important part of any application creation. When creating a mock up you want to stay as simple as possible and get the idea across without an influence on the implementation. There a number of excellent tools available for creating complex UI mockups and some that are really simple.
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Lunchage: Preserving Domain Model Sanity
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Lunchage: Preserving Domain Model Sanity

Part of my enthusiasm in creating the Lunchage application is the prospect of new beginnings.  Every new project requires significant amounts of thought into my favorite activity, modeling out a domain.  I believe the single most important aspect of a software engineer's tool belt is the ability to translate real-world requirements into a set of classes.
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Keyboard Ninja: Creating New Items

Keyboard Ninja: Creating New Items

The age old right click on folder in the solution explorer  "Add-> New Item..." is not for the Keyboard Ninja! Same for the "File -> New -> File". It takes far too long and way too much clicking and scrolling with the mouse.
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Lunchage: Creating a Full Featured Web App
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Lunchage: Creating a Full Featured Web App

When I first began using ASP.NET MVC as a web development framework, I found the Nerd Dinner application from Microsoft helped to learn the ropes.  The app though never really went far enough into an application's development cycle to answer a lot of questions I had when starting a new project (to it's credit though, that really wasn't the point of the sample application at all).  Trying to find decent help on how to make design decisions can be found in the classic books (Patterns and DDD) but real-world examples are often made into smaller chunks without the big picture on display.
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Becoming a Keyboard Ninja, Visual Studio Edition
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Becoming a Keyboard Ninja, Visual Studio Edition

In these upcoming posts we will explore how to become the keyboard ninja(definition 2). And you will feel slightly more superior to the mouse using population.
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Welcome to the Refresh

Welcome to the Refresh Buffalo blog.  The goal of this site is to keep on enhancing the web development IQ of Western, NY.  If you haven’t traipsed through the rest of the site by now, you should know simply that we are looking to make our local developers better through constant improvement and research of new development techniques.

The developers of this site deal primarily in .NET technologies but are always looking for new framework stacks to further our programming acumen.  We are going to use this blog as a vehicle to put forth all knowledge we’ve gained from working in the web design industry for the past few years.

In the coming weeks we have planned a variety of blogs on topics ranging from proper javascript concepts utilizing Backbone as a scaffolding tool all the way to optimizing every keystroke using unknown functionality from Resharper.  Aside from basic clean coding tutorials, we’re looking to provide insight into the methods great developers have used before us, such as large scale Refactoring examples and use (and misuse) of DDD.

The main contributors to this site have worked in web design and development exclusively for the last six years, working for clients in the Western, NY area such as M & T Bank, New Era Cap,

 

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