Rebuilding Compiled Experience: Introduction

It’s been a long time since my last post and for that I apologise, my work and personal lives got the better of me. I find I’m a more regular post when I have a series of posts in mind and a clear direction for my writing so I’ll be trying to do more of that.

Over the last few months there’s been a huge amount of technology released from Microsoft, new versions of Silverlight and the .NET Framework, Windows Phone. I’d like to start to work with some of this and document my experiences. As Rob Conery says “Be a Good Jedi: Build Your Own Blog”, technically already done, but a rebuild with new technology is a great way to learn better (or possibly worse) ways of doing things.

So Compiled Experience will be rebuilt initially with ASP.NET MVC 2 and Entity Framework (the current version is NHibernate), I’ll hopefully be able to integrate some Silverlight into it somewhere as well. I want to try out ELMAH and also have been using the .LESS CSS recently so I’ll be using that. This is just the initial technology list I’m sure it may change as things progress and I don’t want to limit myself too much yet.

Beyond technologies I really want to push myself to some TDD, without some discipline I find myself in a “Test Later” mindset so trying to get those tests written first will be a challenge. The other challenge will be to ensure any bugs I come across are first verified with a failing test rather than just jumping into the code and trying to fix the issue.

If you’ve got any questions, comments or suggestions then please let me know.