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What is wrong with Cosmopolitan theme

I am HUGHE fan of Metro design paradigm, so I was more then excited to check out Silverlight business application theme pack containing the Metro theme template (“Cosmopolitan”) which was released officially couple of days ago . I am not designer but still wanted to share with community my initial...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 06-15-2010
5 reasons why Silverlight sucks in LOB (compared to WPF)

Recently, Brian Noyes and Rob Relyea have touched the “WPF VS Silverlight” subject and considering the fact I was also recently thinking about it I wanted to share my thoughts on that topic too. As I said in previous post , I’ve started at home blogging about the accounting\LOB applications in...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 06-02-2010
Asking the right questions while interviewing developers

Just another fizzbuzz interview question I really hate interviews regardless on which side of the table I am sitting during them(Ok, it is a bit easier when you interview candidates :) ) One of the main reasons why I hate them is the stupidity of the programming trivia and questions being usually asked...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 01-08-2010
Fluent NHibernate samples – Auto mapping (Part 1/2)

In my previous blog post , I have announced the sample solution with which I try to provide code sample for very comprehensive documentation which can be found on http://fluentnhibernate.org/ .. The project is hosted on CodePlex ( http://fnhsamples.codeplex.com/ ). Right now it contains just a small...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 11-04-2009
Fluent NHibernate Samples on CodePlex

I’ve been using Fluent NHibernate for more then a year now and I am big fan of it. The were only two things bothering me in FNH for all that 1+ year: frequent API changes (which made my fluent mapping and auto mapping blog post pretty quick completely obsolete – not to mention my code :)), but when I...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 11-03-2009
Prism (CAL) unit testing - How to test Prism (CAL) Event Aggregator using Rhino Mocks

I spent some time recently working with Microsoft Composite Application Guidance (A.K.A. "Prism", “CAL”) and I think it is very good platform for building composite UI by either using WPF or Silverlight. One of its greatest advantages is that it was done in open source manner which resulted...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 04-18-2009
Fluent NHibernate – Convention over configuration – AutoPersistenceModel auto map magic

Story about how fluent nhibernate idea was born POST UPDATE: Due to changes in Auto mapping API this blog post is outdated. In order to see auto mapping in action with FNH 1.0 go check out http://blog.vuscode.com/malovicn/archive/2009/11/04/fluent-nhibernate-samples-auto-mapping-part-1-2.aspx ******...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 01-03-2009
Fluent NHibernate – NHibernate without configuration files

NHibernate is great, (no doubt about it) but every time I was supposed to work with it, the fact that I had to manually type in all those xml configuration entries was something I really didn’t like at all. The most important complains I personally have on NHibernate configuration files are: It is error...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 08-31-2008
Model View Presenter (MVP) – Tips from trenches (TFT) – Working with HttpContext (Part 2)

Intro This is part 2 of blog post series where I am presenting solutions I came up with to some common problems developers are facing implementing the MVP pattern in real world applications. Previously on tips from trenches: Model View Presenter tips from trenches (TFT) – Base types(Part 1) Today’s hurdle...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 07-30-2008
Model View Presenter (MVP) – Tips from trenches (TFT) – Base types(Part 1)

Intro RAD tooling style Microsoft is supporting last couple of years usually leads to the code where presentation and bossiness logic are mixed and tightly coupled which makes testability, maintainability and sustainability much more harder then they should be. In case you’ve had to work in the past...

Posted to VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! (Weblog) by malovicn on 07-27-2008

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