As some of you already know, i’m a big fan of avoiding excessive roundtrips by batching queries and/or service calls. For NHibernate, i wrote the QueryBatcher class which makes this pretty easy to do. Ayende recently added a much easier approach for this to NHibernate. Take a look at the following code: […]
Read MoreI wanted to take a quick minute and let everybody know that I am pursuing a new opportunity with my career. I have been with my current employer for 10 years. I know that I have matured a great deal both professionally and personally during that time. I have no doubt that my current job […]
Read MoreFirebug frequently proves to be an invaluable tool. I’m in the process of sprucing up an application with some JQuery magic. Specifically for my purposes here I was using JQuery UI to create modal popup. You can see a sample of what I wanted to happen here. The demo was styled using the awesome ThemeRoller […]
Read MoreA new president was installed today in time of peril for everyone on our planet. I wish President Obama all the best. May he lead with wisdom, integrity, and honesty. It is important to realize once in a while, there are more important things than programming.
Read MoreThis article demonstrates the absolute minimum effort necessary to begin logging messages from within your application using Microsoft?s Enterprise Library 4.1. I will include only a few details about what is happening under the covers, this is simply a HOW TO for getting that first logging message out there from a C# code file. Installing […]
Read MoreAfter getting a WAV recoding from Pamela as detailed in a previous post, I like to set up a special physical environment for working with a podcast during production, just like I build a workspace structure for working with a Visual Studio project. The structure I have landed on looks something like this: Examining folder […]
Read MoreThis will be a series of tutorial posts on the steps I go through to get an episode of the Elegant Code Cast published. There are 2 reasons I am writing this up: Several other Elegant Coders have volunteered to help produce shows and I want to provide a tutorial. Thank you, guys! I hope […]
Read MoreSometimes it’s useful to be able to store an object somewhere so you can easily access it for the duration of the current request, instead of having to pass it around with every method call that you make. That request could be an ASP.NET request, or a request in your WCF service layer. I used […]
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