A Serious Challenge for Open Source?
posted by cowgaR(0) 3 years, 9 months ago 0
With all respect to Chris Cyvas, why did you remove my comment to your (tiny) article? I could have understand that if you would at least responded to my e-mail or if I have been rude in commenting there... I've just expressed my short (personal) oppinion about the whole thing on OR/M market in .NET world and I was comparing Lightspeed to NHibernate from 10 000 feet height in about 10 sentences, as I've been doing OR/M research and its usage quite a while for our company... Chris Cyvas has his personal page, and everything (even comments) belong to it, so be it. But "funny" thing is, it happened to me with mindscape product again. Whenever me or my collegues "hit" mindscape lightspeed topic (even commenting on their homesite), their comments are either deleted or not published at all (without any e-mail response even when requested) when any competition is mentioned (and we all know it is there). Probably I should only write how excellent lightpeed is (which, to be honest, I think is true) as that are the comments fully present on their homepage. And now I've done some research here on DNK (neutral ground) with "lightspeed tagged articles" and their comments, and I see...that this is quite "normal"...mindscape crowd "kicking" their own stories and behaving, well, not quite all-right, see for yourself... I like lightspeed OR/M, I really do (and advice anyone to look at it more, as it is not as expensive, you need to pay just per project not per developer and it is very easy to use and show to your co-devels) but this was enough to make me an final oppinion on mindscape company whether they were involved with Chris in some way or not (conspiracy...boooo). I just don't like they can't face the competition that is there...although I am kicking article as I want lightspeed to become more popular (so I can persuade bosses to use it one time). As I have written in my (censored) comment - for our company we were considering either NHibernate 2.0 or Lightspeed (for many reasons Subsonic, LINQ to SQL or LLBLGEN fell out of considaration, Entity Spaces is what we are looking at now) but I better go with the community that I like and is more "open" to critisism (look on ayende defending of NHibernate in his comparison to Subsonic)... btw my 1st (and very long) comment so greetings to the dotnetkicks community. I've been here for a while but never feel like I have to register... cowgaR
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<i>I haven't approved or unapproved any comments yet - they are in a queue for me to read when I get home. :)</i> ok so call me "mindscape piss off" but I am sure it was there for a while (as I _think_ friend read it on nearby computer not devel machine) but maybe I had a bad day and did not notice any comment queue when posting...but I am 90% sure I fired another browser (w/o cookies) and still saw it on your site somehow... I may be wrong of course so forget my 1st comment then. Rob, you better continue with your 100 pushups challenge, don't forget for proper warmup before doing your weekly tasks and a good stretching after that ;P btw I'll look on Subsonic for .NET 3.5 with LINQ provider (which your query language needs) - it could be nice if you finally figure how to finish it ;) and I wouldn't use Subsonic for gazillion tables aswell (as any other ORM in that case), btw are we all building mission - MARS - critical applications? Andrew, happened for example to my friend when he talked about Entity Framework couple of months ago, whos comment you could leave on your homepage - as it turned out EF from Microsoft is more a disaster than a breakthrough in OR/M they were trying to accomplish (again personal oppinion), but who knows... Mike, I really like MONO support, and would like many other projects to support it...it can "solve" performance problems by investing into hardware than to tens of Windows Server 2008 licences hehe
to mindscape, my appologies and my last comment here as I don't want to flame. I never said anything against lightspeed (as I agree with article), I've just personally (somehow) got wrong oppinion on marketing side of thing (seems happening only here, google research really isn't helping in any comparison), we all make mistakes... but then again, I would like to see words like iBabtis, Subsonic, NHibernate, LLBLGEN etc. written all over your comments on Lightspeed homepage (not only in forums), but that probably comes with popularity and so far there are few comments... So far I haven't found one, but I am sure you will find some and show me ;P then again, it is quite stupid to point to competition on your homepage when you are trying to sell something...I guess I just don't like marketing but I feel lightspeed should not be afraid anyone;) Good luck with your Lightspeed project and as a "challenge" I would advice mindscape people to "rewrite" Rob's Storefront project to use Lightspeed instead of LINQ to SQL...and see what it brings...I think there was even a call for people to do it (NHibernate etc..) in some part. Rob, peace, I love your blog and your sarcastic humor even more...
jBlogMvc : part 2 Editing, Deleting, Paging Posts and Rss feeds
posted by cowgaR(0) 3 years, 7 months ago 0
awesome series, and very concise and up to the point... btw Mr. Elsehemy, are you aware of 2 projects? http://www.codeplex.com/MVCMS and particularly http://www.hydrogencms.net/Home.aspx can help you in your project with architectural decision, although they are not BLOG engines I hope you see the point... (CMS is very general word)
20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter
posted by cowgaR(0) 3 years, 5 months ago 0
Not to say that the 20ppl thing already appeared on DNK some times ago... WE NEED NEGATIVE KICKS, but in a way ONLY positive counts. So there would be a display of Negative Kicks but wouldn't count to a Total. The message would appear but would be filtered by human eyes (having +20 positive -100 negative) or by some filter implemented by DNK, but not enabled by default. That's my vision (as it prevents scammers for negatively kicking good stories)
32 Tips To Speed Up Your MySQL Queries
posted by cowgaR(0) 3 years, 3 months ago 0
tip No 37 - install PostgreSql :) and replication will be solved by some high-tech admin folks ;p not really, MySql has given me too much headaches, even half of the sites that run MySql are giving you errors too many too often (and I don't mean only warez sites...) just by basic visit/query, not to mention MySql webpage is in horrible state...slow as turtle.
Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting started w/ your 1st Mapping
pretty bad video on pretty great project...:/ I wish Mr.Gregory would do it himself...
Derik sorry about it but you are not the best presenter out there (I downloaded the low quality sample, maybe that's the case ;-)... yep, I can imagine 10 times better presentation of FluentNhibernate project (or intro to it), but that is just one (and only my) oppinion, I am sure 99,9% ppl never seen a better screencast ;p maybe it is because I watched few (5-6) episodes of Rob Connery's storefront and then downloaded yours and BAM! try it yourself...I know I know, in 10 minutes or less. But still, you are not able to even show a whole code on screen ;P
Conversation Per Business Transaction using PostSharp and IoC
great article! plus brought me to PostSharp I had no idea of :)
What’s the difference between CONST and READONLY in .Net?
posted by cowgaR(0) 3 years, 2 months ago 0
nice reading here as well... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55984/what-is-the-difference-between-const-and-readonly
Fluent NHibernate new style mappings - powerful semantics
This project is almost as good as ASP.NET MVC =) the only "issue" we have right now is the decision whether to write "DDD Visual mapping/generator tool" for Fluent Nhibernate ourselves, whether to use existing designer (Entity Framework?) and T4 transformation templates (more in excellent David Hayden L2S post) or whether to wait for "nforge community" to surprise us with baking it together on already finished projects (active writer) which would be imho the quickest way. Sadly there's no "Visual DDD tool" project started for fluent Nhibernate and it really screams for it...
CodeRush & Refactor! Pro 9.1 is released
posted by cowgaR(0) 3 years, 1 month ago 0
now all we need to see is comparison to R# 4.5 when it'll be released... rick, any new blog post? =) so far I'm on R# side (easy to write custom templates, e.g. for tdd and like) but lately I saw few screencasts of ppl using CodeRush and most notably Stephen Bohlen ninja skills in it got me :) as allways, I'm too lazy to try it myself ;p
LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0
posted by cowgaR(0) 2 years, 11 months ago 0
the problem I see is the requirement for .NET 4.0 which isn't happening in real-production environment anytime soon. couldn't they port it at least to .NET 3.5 SP1?
ReSharper 5.0 Overview
posted by cowgaR(0) 2 years, 7 months ago 0
is it only me, or would someone else welcome R# Lite version? and I'm not talking about the money side of things (don't care) but seeing than it can even iron my clothes in v 5.0 I wonder if the setup routine will take 1 day to configure, and what the performance will be like with all those features in... which frankly, I need only half of them using VS 2010 beta2, maybe less ;) but improvements on HTML front is welcomed, ASP.NET MVC counted in, too bad I'm using spark view engine