Design Patterns

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Piggyback on Derik Whittaker’s Post on Refactoring Project Structure

Technorati Tags: Standards,Design Patterns I agree 110% on my friend Derik Whittaker’s post about maintaining & refactoring project structure not just code structure and I’m sure many will agree but most do not put in to practice weekly on their teams. Breaking your code into physical projects and solutions is a no brainer so I’m not going to ramble on about that. I'm currently working on a new UI layer for our website in MVC and making a structure that is much more logical even down to the Images folder itself...why the heck not?  Example: Images\Site (means it...

posted @ Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:23 PM | Feedback (0)

N-Layered != N-Tiered: Know the Difference!

Technorati Tags: Design Patterns,Architecture I hear a LOT of developers refer to what are essentially N-Layers as “N-Tiers”.  This kind of bugs me a little when I see or hear it from developers.  First of all, they are not even close the same thing, and it’s important as a developer to get this straight so that you are using the terminology properly.  The difference is simple but very important when you’re talking about your applications.  They should not be loose terms and intermingled as about probably 90% of the developers out there that I’ve worked with seem to do....

posted @ Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:04 AM | Feedback (15)

Enterprise Library 3.1 Log Errors

Technorati Tags: Design Patterns Today, I came across a couple of confusing errors while trying to re-setup logging again on a new PC and running my web application.  It was throwing an exception logging error for Enterprise Library in my Data Layer. Error 1: “Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 45” This is a pretty common error that simply pertains to an incorrect DB connection in your config file (web.config, etc.) The problem on my end was that I had setup the DB connection string quite a while...

posted @ Monday, September 29, 2008 2:02 AM | Feedback (1)