Starting with TOGAF
I have recently participated to the 4 days course about TOGAF and if you are like me, in search for more information about it in order to complete the certification, I hope you will...
Category: Software Architecture
Key design principles in Software Development
Software Development is so many things; to have a good start creativity, passion and methodology have to be a perfect match. While the creativity and the passion are subjective and personal, the methodology is...
Microsoft.NET O/R mapper: choose your own!
Only few years ago I was not such a big fan of Object-Relational mapping tools (ORM), but now I have to admit that when starting a new project I’m always thinking whether it makes...
Logic in the database, to be or not to be?
Recently I have participated to a couple of discussions about whether the triggers or stored procedures should be used or not in a “real” project, so I decided to write this post to express...
Agile software development tools and techniques – introduction
I’ve started adopting what I could call “agile” way of developing software only in 2007-2008. Since then I’ve become a Certified Scrum Master and trying to adopt as much techniques and methodologies to make...
AOP – Method interception in PostSharp with OnMethodBoundaryAspect
For general information about the Aspect Oriented Programming please refer to the earlier post: Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) basics In general, PostSharp offers a great deal of different types of predefined aspects that can...
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) basics
What is Aspect Oriented Programming? In very simple terms AOP is a software programming technique that helps managing cross cutting concerns in software applications. Before describing what “Cross cutting concern” is, we should mention...
What technology for building Web Services in Microsoft.NET?
Just wondering how many different ways are there for creating Web Services (of any kind) in the Microsoft.NET stack. ASP.NET Web Services Introduced from the beginning of the Microsoft.NET. ASP.NET Web Services technology has...
Direct SQL Access vs. Web Service
In this post I would like to analyze the two ways of how applications can exchange data (especially when it comes to the database access). I am mainly a big advocate of SOA (Service...
An introduction to NoSQL
In my working career I had to deal with databases since my first day at work and it is a bit a hate-and-love relationship. Usually well working application is always backed up by a...
Top 10 books every microsoft software developer should have
The following is a list of books that I would recommend to every experienced (or not) software developer. Very often I take inspiration by reading again and again some chapters as very often the...
Cohesion vs Coupling – Separate Concerns
We mention Cohesion and Coupling when we are talking about Software Design Principles. Those two principles were first introduced in the book Structured Design: Fundamentals of a discipline of computer program and system design...
