Category Archives: Design patterns

Differences between POCO and DTO

Posted on August 2, 2009 by paul.lorena

by Paul Lorena Introduction POCO is the acronym for the Plain Old CLR Object, and its goal is describe a typical class or object in .NET, was coined at the beginning by Martin Fowler to describe the same concept in … Continue reading →

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TDD techniques : Mocking "If you can’t beat them, mock them"*

Posted on March 28, 2009 by paul.lorena

By Paul Lorena *Title taken from  ISerializable – Roy Osherove’s Blog : Geeky T-Shirt ideas  Introduction In Test Driven Development (TDD) you need to isolate one function or method to test is, it’s good so far. Usually a method has … Continue reading →

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What I’ve saw at Techdays 2009 – Belgium : ASP.NET MVC for smart people

Posted on March 15, 2009 by paul.lorena

By Paul Lorena Introduction I’ve been always interested about the MVC’s implementation for the ASP.NET. The typical MVC architectural pattern was proposed by Trygve Reenskaug. So I’ve attended the exposition of Scott Galloway at  the Techdays  2009 at Antwerp. Was … Continue reading →

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Scalable design in Agile?

Posted on November 19, 2008 by paul.lorena

  by Paul Lorena Introduction I’m working for 2 years with an Agile Methodology : the XP (Extreme Programming) technique. One recurrent issue is the scalable design, how to deal with the "simple solution" stand for the Agile methodology and … Continue reading →

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