rambling

Collection Encapsulation and Business Logic

Yesterday Colin Jack and Jimmy Bogard had a fantastic exchange on Twitter about dealing with collections in your Domain model, and Derick Bailey also blogged about his thoughts on the matter.  While I didn't take part in the conversation, I did have a conversation with him at ALT.NET UK about his solution and blog post. The Twitter conversation lead to a discussion about both proposed solutions with a friend of mine that is starting a Greenfield project and I thought I would join the bigger conversation too.  I'm not going to show any code, as Colin and Derick already have great examples. Custom...

posted @ Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:32 PM | Feedback (1)

ALT.NET Glasgow Drinks - Tonight Waxy O'Conner's 7PM

Tonight was supposed be the ALT.NET Glasgow Python Code Kata, unfortunately this had to be postponed because of problems with the venue.  Instead, we're meeting for drinks at Wax O'Conner's.  I was discussing this with someone who suggested the still having the gathering was a waste of time as we will not be covering any code. I couldn't disagree more with this.  For me, enabling converstations is one of the main tenents of ALT.NET.  Be it blogging, podcasts, tweets or an argument over a pint, as long as we talking then we're doing out part.  I like to think the things...

posted @ Monday, October 13, 2008 1:23 PM | Feedback (0)