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Using Tika in .NET for extracting text out of documents

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:45:51 GMT

Tika is an open source Java-based tool for extracting information out of various different document formats. It can be used with Lucene for indexing and searching documents, among other things. In this post, Kevin Miller talks about how use Tika in .NET via the IKVM.net utility.

S#harp Architecture on VAN

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:46:02 GMT

A Kick-Butt evening of S#harp Architecture with the one and only Billy McCafferty at the Helm

Intro to Virtual ALT.NET

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:46:03 GMT

Introduction to Virtual ALT.NET

VAN meeting for 1/14/09

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:28:27 GMT

AN Meeting for 1-14-08

StructureMap 2.5.2 is Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:31:09 GMT

A fresh release of popular DI framework for .NET.

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

Why you should not use the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:01:12 GMT

Reasons to why the ADO.NET Entity Framework is not mature enough for real business application.

A Challenge to the VB.Net Community at Large on OSS

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:46:03 GMT

Title pretty much says it...

ALT.NET Online Open Meeting 10-DEC (featuring Jeremy Miller) - Chad My

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:21:33 GMT

Tomorrow night Jeremy Miller will be speaking on his new StoryTeller testing framework project.

Introduction to NHibernate: Collection Relationships (Part 5)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:12 GMT

Another screencast on how to use NHibernate: Collection Relationships (Part 5)

Rapid UI Mockups with Balsamiq

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:35:57 GMT

Aaron Jensen investigates a cool new tool for rapid UI prototyping

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Does the Fluent NHibernate create static XML mapping files?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:40:57 GMT

This was one of the first questions I had when I started learning about the Fluent Nhibernate API. In this article, I want to explain why the API does not need to create static XML files. This API can create static XML files, but it is not necessary.

StructureMap users mailing list setup

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:19:01 GMT

Support and user discussion of StructureMap is being moved from the SourceForge forums to the new Google Groups mailing list. Please subscribe here instead of using the SF forums from now own. Thanks!

Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with Reflectio

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:31:08 GMT

Some beautiful code.

I'm not a real world developer

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:59:47 GMT

An assessment of the responses to the Entity Framework "Vote of No Confidence".

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 3: Adopting Agile

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:46:09 GMT

The latest episode of the ALT.NET Podcast is a discussion with Owen Rogers focused on adopting agile practices.

Feedback on Danny Simmons' Why use Entity Framework

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:46:07 GMT

Useful feedback on Danny Simmons' "Why use Entity Framework"

Video of David Laribee on Domain-driven Design at DevTeach

Sat, 17 May 2008 03:38:37 GMT

David Laribee gave a talk on Domain-driven Design at DevTeach this week and Greg Young took a video of it and put it up on his blog for your viewing pleasure. Dave always gives a great presentation and has great slides and presentation style. It's definitely worth watching if you're interested in DDD and/or alternatives to more traditional forms of .NET application data access.

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

Playing with Mass Transit

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:00:33 GMT

Colin Jack takes a first look at 'Mass Transit', an open source messaging service bus framework. He even has a sample application to go along with it! Definitely worth a look.

The Problem Preventer

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:15:35 GMT

Something to think about when you solve your next problem.

.NET Developers: Recommend Your Favorite Open-Source Projects

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

VSLive speaker Jeffrey McManus is asking .NET developers for help with recommendations on their favorite open source tools.

DDDD 1 [When to Message]

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:23:16 GMT

Greg Young begins a series of posts on using Domain Driven Design in the context of a distributed architecture.

Minimal requirements for 'Good' Software

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Good software isn't just the code, it's the care and feeding of the code. It's important that the code can be found, built, and deployed repeatably by someone other than the original developer.