Using Tika in .NET for extracting text out of documents(is.gd)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 1 year, 7 months ago

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. read more...

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Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate(blog.jagregory.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 1 month ago

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. read more...

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Rapid UI Mockups with Balsamiq(codebetter.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 3 months ago

Aaron Jensen investigates a cool new tool for rapid UI prototyping read more...

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StructureMap users mailing list setup(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 6 months ago

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! read more...

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Video of David Laribee on Domain-driven Design at DevTeach(codebetter.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 8 months ago

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. read more...

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Playing with Mass Transit(colinjack.blogspot.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 9 months ago

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. read more...

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Minimal requirements for 'Good' Software(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 10 months ago

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. read more...

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SQL is the assembly language of the modern world(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 11 months ago

I really would like to challenge the conventional wisdom that stored procedures are the best and/or that hand-crafted SQL is the only way to achieve good performance. I once heard someone say that "SQL is the assembly language of the business application world" and I totally agree with this (I linked to Jett Attwood's post above, but I heard it somewhere else first and my Google-fu is failing me tonight). read more...

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Waterfall Doesn't Work(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 1 month ago

Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile. The traditional life cycle approach effectively ignores these issues and developers have been forced to consider other methods to overcome these problems. read more...

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Microsoft and framework designers: Stop using static, internal, sealed(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 1 month ago

A public call for Microsoft and other framework designers to stop burying useful functionality in their APIs and preventing consumers from using or overriding critical parts of the API. read more...

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TDD CodingDojo session in Austin, TX(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 1 month ago

Announcing a CodingDojo/Randori-style TDD workshop in Austin, TX in early February read more...

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Do you know where that code has been?(codebetter.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 2 months ago

Jeremy Miller talks about build hygiene and ensuring that clean builds come from clean sources (i.e. not a developer box). read more...

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ASP.NET WebForms and MVC.NET in the Same Project(chadmyers.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 2 months ago

How do class ASP.NET WebForms work with the ASP.NET MVC bits in the same VS2008 project? Very well! read more...

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Foundations of Programming Part 2: Domain Domain Domain(codebetter.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 2 months ago

Karl explores foundation design techniques and strategies in the 2nd installment of his Foundation Series read more...

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Testing ScottGu: Alternate View Engines with ASP.NET MVC (NVelocity)(chadmyers.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 2 months ago

Exploring the use of non-WebForms view engines with the new ASP.NET MVC framework (example: NVelocity) read more...

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TDD with ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions(chadmyers.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 2 months ago

Doing TDD using the new ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions read more...

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