Angular 2 was a big departure from Angular 1. It is such a radical rewrite that we should be careful not to get the two confused – especially as most of the world is still using the original version. Now I don’t want to be pedantic here, and I realise that “Angular 2” kind of […]
Month: August 2017
Entity Framework “fixing up”
I am relatively new to the EF stable. I don’t know it’s best bits. I haven’t got years of tried and tested experience under my belt. But really, what the hell is this “fixing up” feature? I have turned off change tracking, and it still bloats my carefully crafted eagerly-loaded – yet selective – queries. […]
Walk your own path
Any practice worth following, or avoiding, has a name. And you usually can’t tell from the name whether it is a follow or avoid practice. Names are merely formalisations of a set of rules intended to maintain the integrity of an opinionated approach. And they borrow and steal from each other as necessary to get […]
Lazy loading
ANTI-PATTERN! Lazy loading = lazy thinking. This is a design (noun) in the absence of design (verb). Do you know how your entities will be used? Can you be specific about the properties that will be required? Have you got a design? If so then you don’t need lazy loading – you need each […]
Always learning
I am starting this blog, as a place to host my thoughts and opinions. I have many of both. After coding for 35 years I know that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to software development. Yet. Will I live to see it, or even help to create it? If so then I must be always […]
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