Architecture Tutorials & Articles from Developer Fusion

Continuous Integration Using NuGet And TeamCity

Xavier Decoster — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:26:00 GMT

Xavier Decoster demonstrates how to incorporate the creation and reuse of NuGet Packages into your Continuous Integration build setup using TeamCity

Evaluating REST Frameworks Part 1: A Maturity Model

William Martinez Pomares — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:10:00 GMT

In the first of this series, William Martinez provides a brief overview of REST and proposes a five level maturity model for use in comparing current frameworks that support the development of systems that should be REST-compliant

Testing In An Agile World: The Heart Of A Developer

Malcolm Anderson — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:50:00 GMT

In this article, Malcolm Anderson looks at the roles of developer and tester in a classic team scenario and how a tester’s role and mindset, as well as a developer’s and manager’s to the tester, must evolve to fit effectively within an agile development team.

Pattern Matching in F# Part 2 : Active Patterns

Jessica Kerr — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:00:00 GMT

In part two of this series, Jessica Kerr looks at creating active patterns. These are functions to transform, recognize, and categorize custom types for use with the F# pattern matcher.

Pattern Matching in F# Part 1 : Out of the Box

Jessica Kerr — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:08:00 GMT

In the first of a two part series, Jessica Kerr examines and demonstrates the powerful built-in pattern matching functionality in F# and reveals there's a lot more to it than a C# switch statement or a regular expression

The Universal Application and You – Pipe Dream to Reality

Paulo Rosado — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:23:00 GMT

Paulo Rosado discusses the concepts of a universal application : one set of application functionality that supports EVERY platform

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express

Yann Trevin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:40:00 GMT

One important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer class to start either server from within a running test suite.

Planning for Parallel Optimization

Diana Byrne — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:44:00 GMT

Parallel optimization can result in big performance improvements, but you will need a plan of action that is well suited to your application. Here are some tips to help you get started.

How power–friendly is your software?

Dave Valdovinos — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:52:00 GMT

Rising consumer demand for power-efficient products has driven computer manufacturers to develop and build ever-sophisticated power-management technologies into their devices. In the case of PCs, several hardware and software components must function in harmony if significant power savings are to be realised. This article examines the often overlooked and significant role played by application software in reducing PC power usage.

Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues

Maarten Balliauw — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:22:00 GMT

Queues can be an incredibly scalable component in any application architecture - we take a look at state machines and back-off polling

Design for testing

Kevin Jones — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:42:00 GMT

Testing should be an integral part of your design, and Kevin Jones explains just how to make it so.

Lessons learned writing AJAX applications

Dino Esposito — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:35:00 GMT

We’re all familiar these days with the Ajax buzz word – but while it’s relatively simple to use these browser technologies to implement a specific feature in an individual page, it is much more complex to build an entire application according to the Ajax paradigm. This article offers a brief overview of a few aspects you might want to take into account for building successful applications.

SLOBbing about with .NET

Dave Wheeler — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:26:00 GMT

Persisting objects is all about SLOB (serialized large objects), or so says Dave Wheeler who explains how it's now all so much easier.

Rails: an introduction

Kevin Jones — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:11:00 GMT

Ever wondered what “Rails” is all about? Kevin Jones explains what it is and why it's important.

Unit testing in Ruby

Kevin Jones — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:48:00 GMT

Kevin Jones explores unit testing in Ruby, and shows how Rails offers extra features.

Automate web application UI testing with Selenium

Sing Li — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:38:00 GMT

Testing web applications is a problem, but Sing Li thinks the solution might be easier than you think with Selenium.

Patterns as design vocabulary

Kevlin Henney — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:16:00 GMT

While patterns are intended to give you the bigger picture, they often fail and become bogged down in minutiae. Kevlin Henney considers the wider use of patterns as a common vocabulary.

ActiveRecord for Ruby and Rails

Kevin Jones — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:07:00 GMT

Kevin Jones explains how ActiveRecord works in Rails, and in a standalone Ruby application.

Top 5 Visual Studio 2010 Features

Scott Mitchell — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 offers a variety of new features and functionality. Discover are five new Visual Studio 2010 features that will help make you a more productive developer.

Flush and Clear: O/R Mapping Anti-Patterns

Mirko Novakovic Alois Reitbauer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Five Hibernate and JPA anti-patterns, plus tips on how to prevent problems with O/R mappers.