posted on 03/31/08 at 11:09:10 pm by Joel Ross
If you've noticed a slowing of posts here, there's a reason for that: Twitter. Instead of posting short posts here about something I find interesting, I usually throw that on Twitter. Questions I need an answer to? Twitter is real time and so far, has br…
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posted on 03/29/08 at 09:56:54 pm by Joel Ross
In a recent post, I laid out how I went about adding Dependency Injection to a particular class to give it flexibility and make it easier to maintain over time. At the end, I mentioned I'd never used a DI framework, mainly because I hadn't felt the need…
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posted on 03/28/08 at 08:00:57 pm by Joel Ross
In my last post about Dependency Injection, I sort of just threw in a comment about using the Adapter Pattern to address a mismatch between existing classes and interfaces that those classes need to support. I didn't provide a link or any real explanatio…
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posted on 03/28/08 at 12:31:15 am by Joel Ross
Tonight, I was thinking about a side project I've been working on, and I realized that I had used Dependency Injection (DI). I'm pretty sure that DI is my favorite pattern, so I decided to share on twitter. Steve Wright responded: I wonder what all…
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posted on 03/25/08 at 10:18:35 pm by Joel Ross
Back in November, Jeff Atwood put together a post about the two types of developers: The 80% and the 20%. The 80% are the 9-5 type developers - they may be great at what they do, but they don't have an overwhelming passion for it - it's a job, and nothin…
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Categories: Consulting, Personal, Development
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posted on 03/16/08 at 11:17:19 pm by Joel Ross
For the first time, I'm actually going to step back and enjoy myself during the March Madness tournament this year, and host my own pool. I'm inviting readers of my blog (that's you!) and the people I know on Twitter. And anyone else I can think to invit…
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posted on 03/10/08 at 10:07:04 pm by Joel Ross
As part of our recent transition from Tourney Logic to Develomatic, LLC, we've learned a few things about how to set up businesses. Some of them are worth sharing! To start with, let me state that I'm not a lawyer, so if you're in this situation and wo…
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posted on 03/06/08 at 09:17:19 pm by Joel Ross
For a long time now, there's been talk inside of NuSoft Solutions (where I work) about bringing designers onboard. We use design services from a few local design firms on a good share of the public facing web applications we've developed, and we always t…
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posted on 03/05/08 at 09:00:01 pm by Joel Ross
Attention equals time. It's really that simple. To give someone your attention, it takes time. If it doesn't take time, then you're not really giving them your full attention. And if you're not giving them your full attention, you're wasting everyone's t…
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Categories: Blogging, Personal
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posted on 03/04/08 at 08:37:50 pm by Joel Ross
Over the past few months, I've talked about the NuSoft Framework quite a bit, but after a twittersation (here, here, here, here, here, and here - Twitter needs threaded conversations!) with Matt Blodgett, I realized I've never really talked about what th…
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