Dave Zych

Building the Castle Windsor Dependency Injection Populator for ASP.NET vNext

As I blogged about previously [http://davidzych.com/2014/07/28/asp-net-vnext-dependency-injection-with-castle-windsor/] , I built a Castle Windsor populator for ASP.NET vNext. For this post, I’ll walk through some of the more interesting pieces of it. Installer In Castle Windsor, an installer is a class that implements IWindsorInstaller [http:

Discourse V1 has been released

As promised by the team [http://blog.discourse.org/2014/06/discourse-v1-0-next-month/], Discourse has just hit V1.0 [http://blog.discourse.org/2014/08/introducing-discourse-1-0/]. As Jeff Atwood says the version number is mostly arbitrary, but it shows that the software is ready for rapid adoption in communities everywhere. > Version

Progress Indicators are Always a Good Idea

Progress bars. You know them. You love them. They tell you when the computer is going to be done with a task, or when you are going to be done with a task. Sometimes they’re accurate, sometimes not so much [http://xkcd.com/612/]. Regardless of accuracy, studies have

Don't be a Tweek Tweak Programmer

My previous post, Please learn to ask questions [http://davidzych.com/2014/08/20/learn-to-ask-more-questions/], asks developers to start asking more questions and try to understand the code behind many framework tools they use. A sibling of this topic is programming by coincidence. PbC (as it will henceforth be referenced

Learn to ask more questions

I recently installed sod in my backyard along with an automatic sprinkler system. I performed all the work myself (with the help of some friends and family when necessary, of course) and that included laying the sprinkler pipe and hooking it up to the copper mainline. I didn’t know

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