I went to a local MS launch event for Visual Studio today, mainly to see what was new with Team Foundation Server, but what really impressed me was some of the new architecture tools they've added. I admittedly haven't read too much about this before today (my needs have been well-served by NDepend) but I'm happy to see some improved architecture tools find their way into Visual Studio. Looking at the version comparison chart, it appears this is only available in ...

A while ago (asked Sep 18 at 14:34) I asked a question on StackOverflow. I'm pretty sure I could have found the answer via Google myself but it is so much eaasier to ask someone else to do the work for me and perhaps come up with the better answer.

The question was.

Why can’t string be mutable in java and .net

Why is it that they decided ...

I was not really convinced in the past that I should use the Structuremap Automocker for any of my tests. I don't like using the container in my tests it makes them way to dependent on something not really needed to run the test. Of course I test to see if the container is well configured and if the objects are created by the container when it is well configured (this has saved me several times before). I really only have myself to blame because I didn't really try it and only suspected what it was doing.

Well apparently I was wrong, and lucky for me I read the right blogs.

I thought it was time to use fluent nhibernate just to keep up. Up untill now I still use the old atributes and nhibernate 1.2.1 because I see no reason to upgrade. It all just works and does what it is supposed to do.

But I don't want to stand in the way of progress and I want to help the VB.Net community ahead. So that Jeremy can feel a bit better about the VB.Net community ;-).

First thing I did was checkout the trunk versions of

Today, Jimmy Bogard made a post over at LosTechies.com about DDD and it not being about patterns but all about the Domain and how you model it.

Since his words are better then mine, I would like to quote him.

One question Rob Conery asked me during a conversation on DDD was, “How do I recognize an application built with DDD?” We...