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Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET
There has been a large push to simplicity in the J2EE world. Justin Gehtland, coauthor of Better, Faster, Lighter Java, knows that these ideas are equally applicable to the .NET world. He gives examples of how you can write Better, Faster, Lighter, .NET code.
Justin's core principles
- Keep it Simple
- Do One Thing, and Do It Well
- Strive for Transparency
- You Are What You Eat
- Allow for Extension
As you can see, there is plenty of needless complexity piling up all over the development landscape, and one of the principal tasks of any programmer is recognizing the bloat for what it is, and avoiding it where possible. .NET is no more immune to this problem than Java is. For that matter, as my good friend Ted Neward points out in his blog, ".NET is Microsoft's solution to the bloat build-up in COM." If we know anything about the technology industry, it's that history repeats itself. Programmers need to take it upon themselves to limit the bloat, and prune the complexity that is keeping their applications from living the good life. I hope these five principles give you a starting point for examining the choices and assumptions you have made about your projects, and give you some ideas of ways to make your programming life more simple and fun again. Read Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET and Java
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Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET
Excelent article! I specially enjoyed the Strive for transparency part and the NHibernate example (I just love that thing, highly recomended).
However I think the article is intended for people that are trying to do .NET not a la Microsoft, why? Here's my case.
I am currently taking certification curses to obtain an MCSD in .NET and I am almost done. For what I've read in the MOC Kits we're given, most of the examples are merely informative and the code of the example applications are severely bloated with wizard generated code and there's almost no reuse at all.
My advice here is that if you consider taking a .NET certification, go read a good book about Object Design first, then form an opinion yourself.
Right now I am banging my head against a wall studying the COM+ Enterprise Services Kit, you just can't believe the amount of nonsense atributes you are suposed to put in every class of the business logic, compared with the configuration of an Enterprise Service in Spring.NET for example.
It IS posible to create robust enterprise services without using what is provided in the platform as a default, and without Visual Studio.NET of course.
I am glad Justin Gehtland is active in the .NET world, we need more people like him.
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