http://wagnerblog.com Development Ideas and Ramblings Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:11:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This month marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having grown up in East Germany and defected in 1979, I have  a special connection with this symbol of oppression. To most of us living behind this wall it really seemed insurmountable. For starters, unlike the West ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/11/tearing-down-walls/ Under the best of circumstances, Agile Methodologies - especially SCRUM - puts the development team smack dab in the center of the process and has the entire life cycle revolve around it. That’s why so many programmers love Agile. But even organizations that, for whatever reason, are not able to ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/11/you-dont-have-to-be-100-percent-agile-to-be-productive/ Recently I was asked “ What technology do you recommend Linq or NHibernate” ?  My knee jerk reaction was “ It depends – potentially neither”. But that’s not good enough as an answer. The feeling that I owed a better explanation led me to this post. Let’s start with some basics. ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/10/llblgen-linq-nhibernate-an-embarrassment-of-riches/ Sometimes I wonder if Scott Adams is wiser than he is given credit for. http://wagnerblog.com/2009/08/agile-extreme-programming/ This morning I stumbled across some discussion of using C# to build IPhone apps. You may know already that ordinarily IPhone apps are built using Apple's Objective-C , which is pretty ancient and lacks some useful features like automatic memory management for example. Objective C came out as part of ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/06/c-on-the-iphone/ I like it, but boy it requires a shift in thinking and has a learning curve since you need to practically relearn how to do everything on the web page. No more controls. It suffers a little bit from RoR envy. It will probably take some time before the best ways to ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/06/aspnet-mvc-impressions-after-1-week/ Maybe this is not supposed to work out of the box in the manner I thought..... In order to render something similar to a user control in ASP.NET MVC one creates a partial view - which ends up with the extension of ascx.  This partial view can be embedded into and ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/06/no-renderpartial-from-a-different-folder/ Many years ago I lived in a Communist country. I grew up there.  All children growing up in this Communist country had to learn about various Revolutions in history. Most dominantly the October Revolution in Russia that overthrew the Czar and established a Communist government. So it can be said ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/06/the-problem-with-the-aspnet-mvc-revolution/ This is so correct and true to life it is scary. http://wagnerblog.com/2009/06/vendor-client-relations/ I have been slogging my way through the MS MVC architecture. There are some good parts and some really hard to get used to parts. Some stuff just has me completely puzzled. For example when your used to setting an autopostback property on a drop down control, the need to ... http://wagnerblog.com/2009/05/more-aspnet-mvc-puzzlement/