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NHibernate 2.0 Supa' Layer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Essentially I wanted a way to make queries work better within the context of a Domain Driven Design approach. I'm a big believer in Persistence Ignorance, so this means that I had to find a way to represent queries in a provider independent way. LINQ does this for me, mostly, but I still need a 'syntactically pleasing' way to get the LINQ provider to the query at runtime. Well, it turns out that doing this is pretty easy.

.NET Event Techniques

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

Imploding Rails, Jesus DHH, and The Uncle Ben Principle

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:01:02 GMT

I love Rails - let me just get that out of the way right now. As many who've read my blog know, I think it's the Dog's Bollucks in terms of a developer's framework. But that seems to be a problem with Rails - the focus is on rapid development only. What happens after that is up to you.

Orson Scott Card on "How Software Companies Die"

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:10:20 GMT

The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa...

Writing a full JSON Serializer in 100 lines of C# code

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:16:02 GMT

After looking at the specs for JSON, I figured it couldn't be too hard to write a JSON serializer in C#. Not only was it not that hard, it was very short too: about 100 lines of code.

How to sort a generic List<T>

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Sorting a generic List<T> using anonymous methods and the Comparison<T> delegate.

Ayende @ Rahien - Hibernating Rhinos

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:12:28 GMT

Talks about the differences between Web Forms and MonoRail approaches.

There are only four software licenses

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:31:01 GMT

A brief summary of the most common open source licenses. Also discusses licensing code snippets within your blog.

Custom Configuration Sections in 3 Easy Steps

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:46:01 GMT

Create Custom Configuration Sections easily with the new features of the .NET 2.0 Configuration API.

List of Programming quotations at List Posts

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:01:01 GMT

Copy and paste is a design error (c)David Parnas If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation. (c) Gerald Weinberg Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. (c) Stewart Brand

Rapid DNN 4 Module Development With New CodeSmith Templates and VS2005

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:01:01 GMT

A new set of master & subtemplates for CodeSmith v2.6 (freeware) for DotNetNuke 4.x that generate a fully-functioning module (including GridView and FormView with View, Add, Edit and Delete functionality out of the box). Cuts development time down from several hours to a couple of minutes.

Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:16:01 GMT

This poster contains the default keybindings for Visual C# 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.

Ajax Scaffolding with Castle MonoRail and C#

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:16:02 GMT

"Let's say we need to write an application very fast, that can do the basic CRUD operations for a Product. Ruby on rails (www.rubyonrails.org) came up with the excellent idea of scaffolding, and the idea was ported into the Castle Monorail project (www.castleproject.org). However, the default generator both in ROR and in MR, do not generate ajax based code. For ROR the solution is at: www.ajaxscaffold.com but nothing so far for MR. So I decided to take matters in my own hands..."

Find the Right Connection String with ConnectionStrings.com

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:01:05 GMT

ConnectionStrings.com is a handy, web reference for all manner of connections strings, from the quotidian (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL) to the exotic (Excel, Paradox, Lightbase, AS/400).

Intellisense for SQL Server with Red-Gate's Free SQL Prompt

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Red-Gate Software's free SQL Prompt tool provides Intellisense capabilities in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, Visual Studio 2003 & 2005 and even UltraEdit.

ASP.NET Supervising Controller (Model View Presenter) From Schematic T

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:01:02 GMT

End-to-end walk-through of the process of implementing the Supervising Controller pattern in ASP.NET. Includes sample unit tests.

Now you can create you're own hammer factory factories...

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:31:02 GMT

Apparently MS will be providing a factory for creating your own application blocks for v3.0 of the Enterprise Library , should you desire to do so. Reading Ayende's latest post on this and his link to this flashback post from Joel Spolsky, had me rolling on the floor laughing.

Implicit and Explicit Interface Implementations

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:01:02 GMT

A discussion of the subtleties of implicit and explicit interface implementations in C#.

Using WebServer.WebDev For Unit Tests

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:01 GMT

This post provides an easy to use class you can use with NUnit or MbUnit in order to setup a webserver for a unit test. It makes use of WebServer.WebDev, formerly known as Cassini.

How To Generate Help Files Using Sandcastle Help File Builder

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:31:02 GMT

Step by step description of how to generate a *.CHM Help File and Help File website using the free, open source Sandcastle Help File builder. A GUI interface for the Sandcastle executable.

Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:31:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers.

Managing collections with functors

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:31:02 GMT

An easy way of working with collections using the new features of C# 2.0.

Applied Test Driven Development For Web Applications - Part 1

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:09:01 GMT

In this series of articles you will learn about how to go about practically applying Test Driven Development to the creation of a moderately complex web application. During the process you will learn all sorts of new and interesting techniques that you can take with you and apply to the development of your own web applications.

Handling Drop Down Lists in Web Pages With Model View Presenter

Thu, 25 May 2006 15:13:01 GMT

Take a look at the way that drop down lists in web pages can be manipulated and controlled from outside of the code behind files, using the model view presenter pattern. Source code included.