What are the benefits of the "Convention over Configuration" paradigm in web development? And are there cases where sticking with it don't make sense? Thanks

Is there a convention in Rails to put Sweeper classes in a particular directory location? UPDATE: Since observers are put into app/models, I'm assuming sweepers are no different, as long as the na...

So Im using autofac in a MVC so my controllers can have there dependencies injected on there constructor, I have in my Global.asax I have the following snippet of code, which works. // Register yo...

Apart from auto mapping CLR Classes to EDM models, what are the advantages or use-cases for the ODataConventionModelBuilder ? What specific set of pains does it make go away? With sample code if p...

I have a service which takes an IMyDependency in its constructor. IMyDependency, MyDependency and the service all live in the same assembly. MyDependency has a single, public, parameterless constru...

I have a lot of endpoints annotated with @WebService(targetNamespace = "mynamespace"). Every @WebResult and @WebParam has the same definition of targetNamespace = "mynamespace". Is there a way to ...

Just curious about the best practices for Rails in where I put a custom constraints class that's used as a constraint in config/routes.rb. Seems like Rails.root/lib is where all user classes go. Is...

I'm playing around with Sharp Architecture Lite, which emphasizes convention over configuration, and trying to understand how the NHibernate ConventionModelMapper works. Specifically, I can't tell ...

Is there a product/project that would allow you to define conventions for say an MVC Project to statically check for naming conventions like Controller being appended on the end of classes that inh...

If there's something that everybody hates about Magento it's endlessly configuring your modules before being able to write some code. I'm trying to collect a list of common Magento configurat...

I know some DI frameworks support this (e.g. Ninject), but I specifically want to know if it's possible with Autofac. I want to be able to ask an Autofac container for a concrete class, and get ba...

I am relatively new to ASP.NET MVC, and am very impressed with the clarity of the platform so far. However, there is one aspect that I find uncomfortable. At first, I accepted the fact that when I...