Billy McCafferty

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• Integrating Castle MonoRail into Legacy Code

  After deciding to migrate our current project to Castle Project's MonoRail , next came the task of going through the available documentation, forums and sample code to determine how best to integrate the MonoRail Project into our legacy application. What... Posted Jun 26 2007, 04:18 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Refactoring, Castle Project

• Refactoring from Ayende's NHibernate.Generics to NHibernate 1.2

  [Updated 4/3/07 - Added recommendation to move add/remove methods to a custom collection.] While using NHibernate 1.0x, developers who wanted support for generics often turned to Ayende's Hibernate.Generics . Since the use of generics is now natively... Posted Mar 27 2007, 12:46 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Refactoring, NHibernate

• Refactor It! Challenge 3 Results (finally)

  Congratulations to Thomas Eyde who is the winner of Challenge 3 ! Thomas has won a copy of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides along with a 3-user license pack for... Posted Feb 08 2007, 12:04 AM by Billy McCafferty with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! Challenge 3 - Eeegats...Entries Lost!

  To my chagrin, my email server was trashing email sent to challenge3@emccafferty.com . (I was getting suspicious when I hadn't received any entries yet.) After a few configuration changes, the channels are again open for this email address. Please resubmit... Posted Jan 04 2007, 11:25 AM by Billy McCafferty with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! Challenge 3 - The State of Things

  If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is quite a bit overdue.) Now on to challenge 3... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! This challenge will pit your skills against the very useful... Posted Dec 18 2006, 11:23 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! Challenge 2 Results

  Congratulations to Michaël Willemot who is the winner of Challenge 2 ! Michaël has won a copy of Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET by Jimmy Nilsson along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . ... Posted Nov 30 2006, 06:07 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! Challenge 2

  If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is a little late in being published...but it's worth it!) Now on to challenge 2... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! I'm excited about this week... Posted Nov 23 2006, 01:46 AM by Billy McCafferty with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! Challenge 1 Results

  Congratulations to Rune Rystad who is the winner of Challenge 1 ! Rune has won a copy of Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . (The winner was randomly selected... Posted Nov 20 2006, 04:13 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! Challenge 1

  For an overview of this contest, read this opening introduction . Now, onto this week's refactoring challenge... As Fowler's subtitle describes, refactoring is about "improving the design of existing code"; an introduction to the subject can be found... Posted Nov 14 2006, 02:24 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

• Refactor It! The Weekly Book Giveaway

  Each week, refactor my smelly project and win a free book along with a CodeIt.Once Refactoring tool 3-User license pack! Here's how it'll work ... Each week, beginning tomorrow, Nov. 13, a VS 2005 project will be provided which contains one or more specified... Posted Nov 13 2006, 09:55 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests