Published on May 24, 2013 by Jamie Munro
This is a question I recently had to ask myself. It’s not an easy decision. As a father of three and the sole provider, it places a lot pressure on me. Changing jobs is never an easy decision and this makes it even harder.
At the end of the day, to answer this question I had to ask myself one question in turn:
Will I or will my current employer be able to fix the issues I’m currently facing on a daily basis?
If the answer is no, then the choice becomes much simpler. When the answer is yes, then you need to place the focus on the new company you are thinking about.
It’s important to not fool yourself thinking that the grass is greener on the other side. Every company will probably have “some issues”. It’s all about whether you can deal with those issues on a daily basis.
Also, while the grass may not be greener, fresh sod is always greener for a short while unlike dead grass!
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Tags: stress | Theory | Rants
Published on May 20, 2013 by Jamie Munro
After the incredible reaction to a recent blog post,
Entity Framework Beginner’s Guide Done Right, I feel like before writing some more code to further the basic example, I’ll take a step back and explain
my beliefs in the repository pattern.
I was really overwhelmed with the reaction; what started with a simple 30 minute blogging effort has turned into something absolutely incredible. The original post was really a starting point about not placing direct querying and saving to the database mingled with the core code.
Please note, these are my thoughts on the pattern based on current and previous pain points that I’ve/am experiencing and I’d love to hear others input in making things better.
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Tags: ASP.NET | Theory | c# | entity framework | repository
Published on May 15, 2013 by Jamie Munro
Curse you full calendar! I find it impossible to get anything accomplished when most of my day is spent in meetings. More importantly, meetings with the “big wigs” always seem to be the worse. Really, we need to spend 30 minutes to review a three page Word document that we could have read before the meeting!
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Tags: Rants | meetings | rants
Published on May 14, 2013 by Jamie Munro
I often go to a drive-thru, whether it’s to order food or my favorite coffee, whenever I finish ordering I always say “Thank you”. I think this is an important thing to do. What makes me really happy is the 1 out of 5 (maybe 10) times the person says “You’re welcome”.
This simple statement makes me happy; it’s a really great way to start my day.
There are of course many other examples of simple things that make me happy, as a parent for example, I watch my kids on an almost daily (even hourly) basis learn new things. This is turn makes me really happy and it’s always the simplest things that they learn.
I feel like this is an important trait that also applies to the world I live in: web application or web game development. Simple things make me happy.
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Tags: Theory | simple | less is more
Published on May 13, 2013 by Jamie Munro
Entity framework is a great ORM provided by Microsoft. There are a ton of examples of how to get up and running with it really quickly. The only problem with all of them, is the get you off on the wrong foot.
In all of the EF example guides, the DbContext class is typically deeply embedded into the core of your code. This of course is great for Entity framework because the effort to change will be next to impossible – speaking from experience of course here.
Instead, by making some subtle changes we can integrate Entity framework in a separate layer in case at some later date you wish to replace it. Of course, you might never need to replace it, but following these simple techniques will allow better segregation of code and even provide simpler unit testing.
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Tags: ASP.NET | Theory | c# | entity framework
