August 2007 Entries

I'm in the process of working on a migration strategy to get the Igloo off of the Community Server platform and onto Subtext.  My search of the internet provided few resources beyond BlogML to help me with the data transfer.  I played around with BlogML, but in the end wasn't able to get it to work quite like I wanted so I started working on my own solution.  After screwing around for a while I was working on writing the script to migrate the comments from one database to the other when I hit upon something that astonished me. One...

There's a lot of discussion going on between Oren and Jacob (here, here and here) about the relative benefits, costs and overall usefulness of Dependency Injection.  Both have done a decent job arguing their beliefs and they certainly triggered some thoughts in my head.  In the not so distant past I did a post that showed the steps that I would take when refactoring from junk code into a full IoC implementation that has some Dependency Injection, SRP and interface based design. I noticed some interesting things when I sat back and analyzed the results.  The first thing that jumped...

Until today I had no idea what Ferragosto was.  According to Wikipedia it is an Italian holiday where “Close to the entire month of August is taken as vacation and leisure time…” The project I’m on is know less for it’s velocity than it is known for the stunningly good looks of its team leads.  As I blogged a couple of moths back, we’re supposed to be in “Crunch Mode” right now so that we can meet the arbitrary hard deadline that management is imposing.  To tell you the truth, I’ve never seen a “Crunch Mode” quite like this. Instead...