A few days ago Dylan Beattie wrote a nice post about value objects.  He explains the idea in a more palatable way than my attempt: If it’s not clear how to model a particular element in your model, try asking “which one?” If the question makes sense within your own scenario then you’re probably dealing [...]

Last night I presented a talk titled Practical Inversion Of Control to a packed house at the Austin .NET User Group.  It was a blast.  I’d guess there were 80 developers there, maybe more.  Interestingly, when I asked the room “Who uses an IOC tool at work,” about 10 hands went up, at the most. [...]

I’m presenting a talk titled Practical Inversion of Control at the Austin .Net User Group on Monday.  This will be a beginner to intermediate level session in which we’ll answer the “what”, “why” and “how” questions about IOC and explore both basic and more interesting usage scenarios …