Mapped properties are accessed via properties as nature intended, and querying is a lot easier to read and write. Not quite as neat as Linq-to-NHibernate will be, but so much better than native NHibernate querying that I wonder why it wasn’t included in the trunk.

A few hours ago I completed a code review of an application using NHibernate. This is not the first time I am doing such a thing, of course, and I noticed that there are quite a few areas where I tend to have comments in such code reviews. The following is based on several such code bases that I ...

This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.

The Guthrie/Hanselman Conspiracy

As we all know, Ayende has done a lot for the .NET community. Blog subscription not optional. We heard lots of different people asking if he ever sleeps. How is this possible? I say; follow the link. http://kyle.baley.org/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricMonorailsWhileTheyreHibernating.aspx http://blo...

"The main part that we have here is the security model, but notice that the application domain model is off to the side, and have very little to do with the security model. In fact, there is only a single requirement from the application domain model, the User entity needs to implement an inter...

Ayende's Binsor project. Cool new way of managing Windsor configuration with no more xml.

"Jeff Atwood is talking about languages in languages, and suggest that you would avoid using fluent interfaces to hide a language semantics. I completely disagree."

Great approach for business validation.

MSDN article on how to use Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, generic specialization, the decorator pattern, chains of responsibilities, and extensible software to build robust, extensible software

Ayende offers us another great post - this time he tackles simplicity and quality.

I run into the issue of having to alert the user of some error, and it brought home the fact that English & Hebrew are not easy to mix...

How to extend Rhino Mock to work with NHibernate Expression.

How to use Rhino Mock to mock a Repository based on NHibernate