About Me
Hi, I'm Simon Whittemore, a developer living in London. I've been a Developer for about 14 years, and have been working with .NET and C# since version 1.0. I have extensive experience developing maintainable, well architected Web and Desktop Applications in the Financial and IT Services industries, and have successfully integrated Open Source .NET applications and frameworks into processes and software.
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Unit testing code that uses a BackgroundWorker
The BackgroundWorker class is a fantastically simple way of firing off long-running tasks without the complexities associated with threading. However, tests that exercise code that uses a BackgroundWorker may not behave as desired. Unit tests run synchronously, and will not … Continue reading
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Don’t Swallow Exceptions – Ever
Is there any good reason to do this? I say no. It makes your code run slower, and with tricky to debug errors. Throw exceptions early – then they will be dealt with during development, rather than in production. We … Continue reading
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Windows Forms Presentation Model Implementation
As mentioned last time, the Presentation Model pattern allows us to decouple our UI Model from our domain model. Briefly restated, this is a good thing, as we do not want UI concerns to leak into our domain model, and … Continue reading
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Logging is good, mmmmkay
Actually, it’s more than good, logging is essential in any application. We wasted a whole load of time today because we weren’t using our standard logging framework (log4net), and the basic logging that was implemented was throwing an error that … Continue reading
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Formatting code in WordPress
OK, so it is my second post, and things are going downhill already. Meta-Blogging. The first rule of blogging is no meta-blogging. Someone might find this useful though. I just figured out how to get nice code formatting with little … Continue reading
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Presentation Model in Windows Forms
So, certain UI patterns are getting a fair bit of coverage in the .net community currently. Jeremy Miller and Glenn Block for instance, have been posting about this pattern in the past week or so. My current project has Windows … Continue reading
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