Code rant

This Thursday, 1st October, I’m going to be giving a talk about MassTransit , a lean, open source, service bus for building loosely-coup...

Building software is hard. I’ve been involved in building business systems for 13 years and it’s probably fair to say that I’ve been involve...

Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s talk on NHibernate, and especially Sam Morrison of VBug for inviting me along and for Anteo Gro...

I never realised you could do this; use Rhino Mocks to mock a delegate: using System; using Rhino.Mocks; using NUnit.Framework; nam...

Back when I was a VB developer, we used to wrap every single function with an exception handler. We would catch it and write it to a log. Mo...

This is a follow-on from my last post, A First Look at MassTransit . Here’s my take on how publish and subscribe works. It’s based on a ve...

Get the code for this post here: http://static.mikehadlow.com/MassTransit.Play.zip I’ve recently been trying out MassTransit as a possi...

Writing a book about IronPython presents a dilemma, do you write a book introducing Python to .NET developers, or do you write a book intro...

We’re using TFS on my current project. Yes, yes, I know. It’s generally good practice to collect all the code under your team’s control i...

I recently put this bullet point list together for the team I’m currently working with. Naming Conventions Naming conventions. We w...