Code Smell Riddle #19

q. Between you and me I tend to be quite the conundrum;
A side effect of complexity way beyond my own good.
Unless you extract me from my overly convoluted mess,
I will forever be thoroughly dazed and misunderstood.

a. Temporary Field

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Code Smell Riddle #18

q. I love to be on the cutting edge of ignorance;
Black boxes are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
But if the smoke and mirrors point to another box,
Then you might as well just send me there instead.

a. Middle Man

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Code Smell Riddle #17

q. When you link method to method,
I can get super long really quick.
You should cut out the middle man;
Breaking the hierarchy is the trick.

a. Message Chains

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Nashville .NET User's Group Presentation

Yesterday I gave my first User's Group (UG) presentation at the Nashville .NET UG entitled... "A Crash Course in ASP.NET MVC".

In the presentation I gave an overview of what MVC is, explained some pros & cons of using it, answered some common questions, presented a demo application that I developed (Pet Shop 5), and then I dived into the demo's code.

You can download the content that I presented at the User’s Group below… <ul><li>A Crash Cource in ASP.NET MVC* (Power Point 2007)</li> <li>A Crash Cource in ASP.NET MVC* (Power Point 2003)</li> <li>Pet Shop 5 Project</li></ul>*Note: There is some additional slides at the end of the slide show that you might find interesting. <p>You also might want to check out a blog post I created a month or so ago intended for ASP.NET Web Form developers to quickly get up to speed on the concepts of ASP.NET MVC. A lot of the material is about pre-Preview 5 releases of ASP.NET MVC, but I still think it would be beneficial for most developers. If you so choose, you can directly link to the document hosted on Google Documents.</p> <p>You might be interested in keeping up with me via:</p> <table border="0"><tr><td>Email</td><td></td><td>elijah.manor@gmail.com</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>Twitter</td><td></td><td>http://twitter.com/elijahmanor</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>.NET Tech blog</td><td></td><td>http://webdevdotnet.blogspot.com</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>Stack Overflow</td><td></td><td>http://stackoverflow.com/…/elijah-manor</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>Tech Riddle blog</td><td></td><td>http://manorisms.blogspot.com</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>Personal blog</td><td></td><td>http://elijahmanor.blogpot.com</td></tr><tr></tr></table><p>Thanks for everyone who came… there was an awesome crowd!</p>

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Code Smell Riddle #16

q. I store lots of information goodies,
But I take no action whatsoever.
You should find whoever uses me,
Plan to move their logic, and sever!

a. Data Class

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