Rinat Abdullin on Efficient Development

Immutable classes (models in MVC) simplify complex development in a number of situations (concurrency, testing, functional code flow).

Result{T} and Result{TValue,TError} monads extend the idea of Maybe{T} monad and allow to have strongly-typed and efficient failure handling, which does not have the drawbacks of conventional exceptions.

Legacy code usually faces two fundamental problems: it needs to be rewritten and it is already bringing business value to the company.

In such situations project managers and developers have to find a balance between rewriting the entire codebase from scratch and painfully evolving existing application.

Distributed version control systems (like Git or Mercurial) get more and more popularity these days.

Although, there are some learning and adoption barriers, this popularity is well-deserved.

There was an article about some theoretical aspects of implementing monitoring and maintenance systems for the distributed apps. It definitely misses implementation details for the .NET environment.

http://abdullin.com/journal/2009/5/18/maintenance-and-monitoring-infrastructure-for-the-enterprise.html

Composite UI application is an application created from loosely coupled components and UI blocks (components, too).

Even handling and dispatching is one of the tricky parts of such an application. Let's cover the scenario, when the application is really simple and does not need complex framework for that