DECOUPLING CODE

SERVICES, INTERFACES & SEPARATING ASSEMBLIES. One thing you realise the more you write code is that the less “moving parts” you have the better or to put it another way the more you put your moving parts into one contained place the better. Pushing items which change or where there will be change in the […]

LINQ TRINKETS

LINQ EXAMPLES. LINQ is probably one of the main reasons why I’ve stuck with C#. It’s such a powerful in memory data manipulation namespace in dotNet and the main reason why you can abbreviate tens of lines of code into one. I’ve accumulated a few queries which I use regularly which I hope you may […]

FROG IN A WELL & EVENT HANDLERS

Being a doctor who codes is not as romantic as you would think. You try hard to keep consistent with development but you end up in peaks and troughs of coding rather than a preferred consistent flow. The Surgery work is phenomenal and I’m frantically trying to clear the work load to spend time coding. You have your […]

RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB

SIMPLE CSV MAPPER. I had an evening yesterday to do some coding for another GP Surgery and it made me understand it’s not a matter doing the best possible application which is loosely coupled, well designed and future proof but using the right tools for the job. I was asked by Tom Brownhill in a […]

ONION ARCHITECTURE WITH CSVMAPPER

LAYERING CODE. I’ve been reading up on the Onion Architecture and think it’s a nice way of organising your code leading on to Domain Driven Design. This is my first project for this way of developing and it’s on the back end of a request from a good friend of mine to address a specific […]

INTEGRATING WITH COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS

TARGETED MUR CHECKS. I’m just going to go out and say it. Community pharmacists are a very under utilised useful resource we have for commissioning care in the local area. I actually see them fit a similar position to Information Technology (IT), medication is ubiquitous and infiltrates into all aspects of services which we provide […]

DELEGATES AND LAMBDAS

I’m getting into really understanding about delegates and thought I’d share my thoughts around this. I’m just touching the surface, but event driven development is something I’ve wanted to do for sometime. In this basic tutorial I’m trying to address the following simple problem. “I would like to work out if one value is greater […]