Comments on: Oxite: Some Thoughts http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/31/oxite-some-thoughts/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ASP.NET MVC Archived Blog Posts, Page 1 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/31/oxite-some-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2371 ASP.NET MVC Archived Blog Posts, Page 1 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:51:50 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=785#comment-2371 [...] to VoteOxite: Some Thoughts (12/30/2008)Tuesday, December 30, 2008 from www.markhneedham.com... erve as a particularly good example of an [...] [...] to VoteOxite: Some Thoughts (12/30/2008)Tuesday, December 30, 2008 from http://www.markhneedham.com... erve as a particularly good example of an [...]

]]> By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #254 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/31/oxite-some-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2365 Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #254 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:23:54 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=785#comment-2365 [...] Oxite: Some Thoughts - Mark Needham gives his views on Oxcite, the much maligned ASP.NET MVC CMS from the Channel 9 folks at Microsoft. Mark shares his ideas in the form of a technical retrospective, which is a nice clear and constructive way. [...] [...] Oxite: Some Thoughts – Mark Needham gives his views on Oxcite, the much maligned ASP.NET MVC CMS from the Channel 9 folks at Microsoft. Mark shares his ideas in the form of a technical retrospective, which is a nice clear and constructive way. [...]

]]> By: Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for December 30, 2008 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/31/oxite-some-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2353 Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for December 30, 2008 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:15:44 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=785#comment-2353 [...] Oxite: Some Thoughts - Mark Needham ‘ I was intrigued to read the code though - you can always learn something by doing so and reading code is one of the ares that I want to improve in ‘ Oxite is keeping everyone busy these days. On top of my hipster PDA now is reading it’s source code, since it is easy to have an opinion, but more important to have a well funded one. Thanks Mark! [...] [...] Oxite: Some Thoughts – Mark Needham ‘ I was intrigued to read the code though – you can always learn something by doing so and reading code is one of the ares that I want to improve in ‘ Oxite is keeping everyone busy these days. On top of my hipster PDA now is reading it’s source code, since it is easy to have an opinion, but more important to have a well funded one. Thanks Mark! [...]

]]> By: Karl http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/31/oxite-some-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-2350 Karl Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:08:02 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=785#comment-2350 You have 3 valid points about testing, but the obvious fourth is that they only have some 51 tests (don't remember the exact count). A system of this size/complexity should likely be in the thousands. Also, I must disagree re the Repository pattern. The way they've implemented it is extremely heavy. Every domain object has its own specific repository, which results in a lot of code and a lot of code to tests (which I guess isn't a problem if you just don't test...). Should have gone for a more reusable approach, like an object query and an o/r mapper. Finally, I wouldn't call what Rob is doing refactoring. He's completely recoding it. Imma guess Rob is calling it refactoring so that he doesn't hurt any feelings. You have 3 valid points about testing, but the obvious fourth is that they only have some 51 tests (don’t remember the exact count). A system of this size/complexity should likely be in the thousands.

Also, I must disagree re the Repository pattern. The way they’ve implemented it is extremely heavy. Every domain object has its own specific repository, which results in a lot of code and a lot of code to tests (which I guess isn’t a problem if you just don’t test…). Should have gone for a more reusable approach, like an object query and an o/r mapper.

Finally, I wouldn’t call what Rob is doing refactoring. He’s completely recoding it. Imma guess Rob is calling it refactoring so that he doesn’t hurt any feelings.

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