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XML-free .compiled mappings WITHOUT Fluent NHibernate - sample project

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:00:48 GMT

A very lightweight framework for automapping your domain in NHibernate

Reading CSVs into anonymous types

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:46:55 GMT

Another one of my clever tricks with anonymous types

Convention based NHibernate mappings part 2

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:13:45 GMT

Part 2, in which we write some code to locate and apply our conventions.

Using topological sort to order rules in rules engines

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:43:00 GMT

A natty method for ordering object in an enumerable

XML-free convention based compiled mappings WITHOUT Fluent NHibernate

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:12:24 GMT

A lighter alternative to Fluent NHibernate

How Fanboys See .NET ORMs

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:15:00 GMT

A play off of the recent "How Fanboys See Operating Systems" post.

Easy-peasy web dependencies using T4 templates

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:35:17 GMT

A handy method for including dependencies from projects on the web when you don't want to use the whole assembly.

Easy File System Path Manipulation in C#

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:27:44 GMT

FsPath root = "/foo/bar"; var baz = root / "blam" / "baz"; var etc = FsPath.Root("/etc/"); var passwd = etc / "passwd";

It's Okay To Write Unit Tests

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:45:00 GMT

A few simple reasons why you should be writing unit tests.

Xsrf attacks can be really bad

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:49:45 GMT

A case in point

Facebook + ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:00:00 GMT

What options are out there for developers wanting to create Facebook applications using ASP.NET MVC framework. This article tries to break down the options.

Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Fri, 15 May 2009 20:46:26 GMT

Holy cow! Another *DD - man I really must have an IV with that Alt.NET Punch just coursing like a train in my veins! I ask for your patience with this one - cause I think BDD is a really good tool to know - whether you use it or not - knowing the workings of it will allow you to have some intelligent conversation the next time you're in Austin :).

Checking XML for Semantic Equivalence in C#

Thu, 07 May 2009 22:07:49 GMT

Does what it says on the tin

Implementing a simple genetic algorithm

Fri, 01 May 2009 17:01:02 GMT

In this blog post I'll give a quick introduction to what genetic algorithms are and what they can be used for. We'll implement a genetic algorithm that attempts to guess an RGB color by evolving upon a random set of initial guesses, until it at some point evolves into the correct RGB value.

string.Empty versus ""

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:01:02 GMT

The author shows ways that "" is better than string.Empty and results in clearer and possibly faster code.

SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:46:02 GMT

This article is very serious and I would like to explain this as simple as I can. SCOPE_IDNETITY() which is commonly used in place of @@Idnetity has bug when run in Parallel Plan. Do your community service. Read the article. Bookmark it. Kick it and spread the word.

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

Static urls for aspx pages in 20 lines of code

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:47:16 GMT

A nice way to create refactor proof page links

Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:31:02 GMT

CodeBetter - in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us - is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com - a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs of the server farm and providing a TeamCity Enterprise license. Volunteers from CodeBetter, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us are administering the servers and setting up OSS projects on the build grid.

Learn the Basics Before Programming

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:46:16 GMT

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this.

Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:31:04 GMT

Before I was a geek, I was a Geologist. A Geophysicist to be precise - but mostly I just tell people I was a Geologist. I worked a lot with environmental cleanup, but I also spent a lot of time doing what's known as "Geotechnical" work - the stuff that happens before buildings are built and holes are dug. It can be kind of boring, but it's crucially important. One day I was sitting in our lab with some dark Bay Mud in a crucible, slowly adding water in measured doses and then pouring the mud through a screen and weighing out differences. I won't bore you with the details - I'll just tell you that I was 23 and cranky that this is what my career amounted to - a bunch of rigorous nonsense where I got to weigh mud.

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

MigrationScriptGenerator

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:10:27 GMT

a tool for generating SQL scripts for changes (using Open DBDiff), with errors if you do a change that might lose data. It creates a script for you to review. If your changes are non destructive, then it just makes the change script for you.

Automatically serializing value objects using Fluent NHibernate

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:39:38 GMT

After reading James Gregory's posts on Fluent NHibernate (in particular http://blog.jagregory.com/2009/01/11/fluent-nhibernate-auto-mapping-type-conventions/) I had a quick play and came up with this.