December 2009 Entries

The Model View Presenter pattern with .NET.

I had a request from one of my blog’s reader (Bastien) that I can’t skip. Last week he asked me to write a short article on how to implement the Model View Presenter with Windows form. So let’s skip for a while my series of articles about Prism and let’s see what is the MVP and how it should be implemented. The Model View Presenter pattern. The definition of the model view presenter pattern can be found in many web site, let’s use the classic definition provided by MSDN. (This is an interesting article that explains the MVP)....

Books review: Scrum techniques.

Today it seems to be, for me, the day of the books review. The reason is because I am at home, for the Christmas holiday, and my wife is working. This means “I have time to read my tech books and write some posts on my blog”. What is scrum? The scrum is an agile methodology used in software development. This is the description provided on Wikipedia: “Scrum is an iterative incremental framework for managing complex work (such as new product development) commonly used with agile software development. Although the word is not...

Book Review: Architecting application for the enterprise.

Good morning everybody, first of all I want to apologize for my absence in December. I am really sorry but I was ‘trying’ to deliver a component in my office and I was so busy and tired that I didn’t have time for the blog. Let’s start this ‘holiday’ posts with an interesting review of a software architecture book written by two friends of mine: Andrea Salatarello and Dino Esposito. The title is: Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer) (Paperback) available at Amazon.com for 29.69 USD. Chapters and sections. The book...