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Patterns…
10. Nov
Daniel postet in his blog news about MSDN solve. This time it’s a list of 11 clips from Dariusz Parys about patterns. I hope he doesn’t mind if I copy the list from his blog entry. Credits are given anyways 
- Aggregates (DDD) Pattern
- Singleton Pattern
- Singleton Pattern Thread-safe
- Monostate Pattern
- Command Pattern
- Template Method Pattern
- Model-View-Presenter Pattern
- Strategy Pattern
- Factory (DDD) Pattern
- State Pattern
- Registry Pattern
- Registry Pattern Thread-based
Have fun!
sgingter (at) live.de – yes, it’s mine!
07. Nov
Max Zuckerman (sweet name, literally, btw), posted it on Channel 10: You can create new Windows Live Id’s – with an own yourname@live.com eMail Address.
By now, you can additionally reach me at sgingter (at) live.de besides that name at gmail, gingter.org or any other domain like wrdlbrmpft.de I own.
Creativity ‘reloaded’
06. Nov
via copyblogger
Simply a note to myself: Brian Clark did write a blog post about what hinders you on being creative. Especially citing ‘the Matrix’ and using the phrase ‘there is no spoon’ for making clear that ‘there is no box’ – in ways of thinking outside the box’ is a great deal. I like it. Need to read that carefully and think about it.
Hrm.. but Daniel will invent a better (in means: really existing) box anyway…
VS 2008 ‘Orcas’ release in this Month
06. Nov
It’s official: Visual Studio 2008, Codename ‘Orcas’, will be released together with .NET Framework 3.5 this November.
I just hope, Chrome is working really well with VS 2008 with the next official update after release. I can’t stand buggy software in production 
Shit happens
29. Okt
via Blogsprache
A friend of mine (Carina, poorly she’s got no own blog by now) has a big poster of that crashed train in her room, SHIT written in big letters on it at the top left corner.
Just by accident I stumbled upon that blog entry on Blogsprache, giving some background information about that picture.
In 1895, October the 22nd (exactly 112 Years and a week ago), that spectacular train accident happened. Coming from Granville to Paris in france, this train didn’t stop in the station. It ran into the buffer, crashed through the train platform of the dead-end station and finally fell out of the glass-window of the station.
The locomotive crashed on the Place de Rennes behind the station and kept standing there like a ladder. It just missed a tram. The waggons still stood in the train station, still in the rails.
Freimaurerische Frauen in Second Life?
27. Okt
via wired.com
Anscheinend ein neuer Trend in Second Life: der virtuelle maurerische Fez. Getragen wird er von süßen Mädels in der virtuellen Welt – und er scheint inzwischen ein gewisses Fetisch-Objekt zu sein. Auf wired.com wird in dem Artikel daraufhingewiesen, dass es wohl daran läge, dass es wohl was mit der Staatengründung der USA zu tun hätte, dass Frauen keine Freimaurer sein können und dass sie eben nicht an der Staatengründung beteiligt waren. Meiner Meinung nach Schwachfug, aber der Patriotismus der Staaten scheint eh den gesunden Menschenverstand zu ignorieren.
Ich persönlich halte nicht viel von Second Life. Ich finde es zu langweilig. Die Interaktion lässt zu wünschen übrig und die Grafik ist ehrlich gesagt unter aller Kanone.
Warum ein freimaurerisches Objekt in der virtuellen Welt so hyped? Ich habe da eine eigene Erklärung für. Nun, im Gegensatz zu den Briten gibt es in den vereinigten Staaten und auch im Rest der Welt relativ wenig Freimaurer. Es ist eine geheimnisumwobene und eingeschworene Gemeinschaft, und weil diese Gemeinschaft nunmal historisch bedingt ein paar Geheimnisse hat, und diese auch hegt und pflegt, weckt das natürlich die Neugier. In second life kann man fast alles tun was einem beliebt. Es ist eine vollkommen freie virtuelle Welt. Hier kann man einfach so tun als ob. So tun, als ob man – auch als Frau – Mitglied einer ‘Geheimgesellschaft’ wäre. Und man trägt den Fez um anderen zu imponieren. Um sich selber einen Status als was besonderes zu geben. Und dann, logischerweise, um mit dem Verkauf von dem virtuellen Ding ein paar echte Euros aus der Spielwelt zu ziehen. Ich schätze, der Designer des Fez hat in second life sicher schon einige tausend Dollar damit verdient.
MVC in ASP.NET?
16. Okt
Frank Fischer (some Microsoft guy- the only person I would sign a working contract for if he would like to have me as an evangelist *g*) just posted a blogpost about a MVC (Model View Controller – Pattern) Framework for ASP.NET. A thing where ASP.NET is going to follow the Rails framework in Ruby.
Well, is MVC the right way? Especially in ASP.NET applications?
I’d say: No. MVC is nice in client applications, but on the platform ‘Web’, where all is about really dividing between UI and logic, where you even should be able to exchange the UI of an application without changing a line of code, the MVC is not the best thing – in my eyes. That is, because in the MVC pattern the controller has knowledge about the model and the view. If you alter either the model or the view, you need to modify the controller. Exchanging the view forces you to hold a seperate controller for each view and altering all controllers if you need change the model later.
But what then? Well, here it is: The “Model – ViewModel – View” Pattern.
See here for a very good german article about that pattern.
Using that pattern, the ViewModel knows about the model and gives an interface to the controllable elements on the view. The view itself is coded against that interface. So exchanging a view is creating a new view databinding against the viewmodel, and that’s it. Changing the model possibly results in changing the modelview part, but usually without the need to change the interface to the view(s).
So sorry Frank, but like MVVM is the better approach than MVC in the WPF world, it is also the better one in ASP.NET.
A Dark room for my content…
13. Okt
Some time ago Marc Hoffman introduced a Mac *brrr* Software called WriteRoom. The concept is nice: It just presents a black screen, covering your complete working area, and displaying your text in a way that remembers one of the old monochrome green monitors of the first personal computer days.
The point is: Everything else distracting you from you and your text is hidden.
Another Microsoft Student Partner postet a link to a great acrticle about developer tools, and there ‘Darkroom‘ was presented. It’s nearly the same as writeroom, but written for the .NET platform.
Have a look at it.
Noch eine: ASP.NET ViewState enträselt
08. Aug
… aber sowas von! Via Daniel Walzenbach‘s Blog.
Nach schon die Daily ASP.NET Feeds so genial waren hat er hier wieder was ausgegraben, was von Tiefe nur so schäumt. Wow! Das muss man sich mal in einer ruhigen Minute zu gemüte führen…