January 2009 Entries
So sometime about now, I tripped on the absolute worst part of this whole process. Heck, it’s so bad that in the years where I haven’t had a scoring app, this has been single-handedly why there was no scoring application. That, of course, is loading the data. Consider, 24 categories results in between 20 and 120 movies nominated (50 this year). If you’re recording information on people involved, it rapidly hits the hundreds. If you don’t want to store a lot of data, it’s not that bad, but it’s still...
I’m always happier in my Agile mentality with having something up and running that I can hit F5 on and see the fruits of my labor and this is no different. So, the next thing we need to do is get a basic Prism application up. The most basic Prism app in the world has three things in its .exe. The Application object, which sets up the bootstrapper object. The Bootstrapper object, which kick-starts the IoC container, loads modules and starts the shell. The Shell window (which I really wish began with...
So I’m a firm believer that once you have business requirements its a good idea to have the data right. You may have to expand on it later, but it’s good to know what you’re dealing with in a problem space. In a larger, green-fields application, I might well do a part at a time to keep in good Agile methodology, but this is neither large nor green fields (I’ve build the application several time so far for different years in different tech stacks, though this hopes to be the prettiest). So, here we...
I’m not a Microsoft employee, but I’ve been on the advisory board for P&P’s Composite Architecture for WPF and Silverlight (hereafter just called Prism) project since v1. It’s a great little piece of software and I’ve been negligent about blogging on it, so I thought I’d take the opportunity of starting up this blog to do so. History For those that are unfamiliar, since 2003, P&P has been generating a series of application blocks, software factories and guidance packages that have promoted...