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[ControllerAction] and sane defaults

[Ed: For anyone who's living under a bush Microsoft have released a CTP of the new ASP.NET MVC framework. ]
I’m reluctant to get involved in this - but I feel like there’s another side to this story which is worth considering.
Since it was first presented at altnetconf - the decision to require users1 to have [...]


Enterprise plaforms - teaching new dogs old tricks

Oren is talking about building a substrate for an enterprise platform. This has been something I’ve wanted to do since I first got my hands on c# and the rest of the .net framework in 2001. I’ve never done it because it always seemed that a one size fits all solution would be unworkable.
At the [...]


Eric Evans on over-design and intrinsic complexity

Just watched a great presentation by Eric Evans (of Domain Driven Design fame) called: Strategic Domain-Driven Design - Effective Modelling for Larger Projects. I highly recommend it.
Here’s a couple of great quotes (It’s worth noting that he’s talking about large projects):
Not everything is going to be well designed.
You may have a part [of a system] [...]