Introducing Chewie for nuget

So anyone following my friends and co-workers Jeff Schumacher (@codereflection), Adron Hall (@adronbh) and Bobby Johnson (@NotMyself) is aware that today we [ok really just them, I was busy on a diff less awesome project] started giving nuget a serious trial run to manage our extensive list of dependencies. A lot of which are not available on nuget at the moment.

This prompted a few blog posts from the guys here and here.

We kinda came up with the idea that we really needed something along the lines of bundler for ruby gems. So I started with the most simple version possible and Chewie was born. (All credit for the name goes to @NotMyself). At the moment its a basic file and a single line of powershell goodness.

check it out and contribute @ github

ExpandoObject and Views

This sample was spawned by a comment made by my friend and co-worker Bobby Johnson (@NotMyself) . I can’t remember exactly what he said but it had something to do with dynamic and views. (maybe he will tell us in the comments )

Let me first say that many of the projects at work on built on MonoRail which is often considered to be the predecessor to ASP.Net MVC and as such we don’t get a huge amount of exposure to the new toys in ASP.Net MVC immediately.

With that out of the way I was getting prepared to write this post and I just happened to notice that ASP.Net MVC views in .Net 4.0 projects seem to all be of type System.Data.ViewPage<dynamic> , which got me super excited! This makes things even easier!

Refactoring MVP to MVC the slow way : pt1 Extracting Services

In this series I would like to examine the process my team and I have been undertaking on our current project. One of the aspects of working on legacy applications is that when you dive in you often see patterns that are not easily testable. The current application my team is working on was built many years ago and implements MVP (model view presenter) ,which at the time was a useful pattern for developing testable ASP.Net webforms applications. In the years since then many new patterns and frameworks have emerged and it is our desire to move the application from MVP to MVC (model view controller).

This series assumes that you are familiar with a few patterns and concepts namely the following:

• Dependancy Injection
• Inversion of Control
• SOLID principals
• MVP
• MVC
• TDD
• Mocks/Stubs