Logging application exceptions is like getting a new muffler. It isn’t exciting. It isn’t very fulfilling. It just costs time and money. Also, it is something that needs to be done. So, can we make exception logging as frictionless as possible? Roll your own logging library. Repeat the same code a lot in your application […]
Read MoreProblem: You run “svn update” on a directory where you *know* there are new folders. Svn tells you “At revision X” where X = whatever the head revision is (i.e., “everything’s up to date!”) – but that new folder didn’t show up. This is because the default is for svn to update folders down to […]
Read MoreI blogged about fluent interfaces and expression builders a couple of times before. For this post, I want to share a base class that I’ve been using for taking away some of the burden when creating expression builders for domain classes. Here’s the expression I’m after: var document = DocumentBuilder.BuildDocument() .AuthoredBy(“Stephen Hawking”) .Titled(“The Universe in […]
Read MoreChris Brandsma and Richard Cirerol sit down and talk with Jim Wierich. Jim is a Ruby and Java developer, frequent speaker, and the creator or Rake (Ruby Make) that is becoming favored by developers all over. Over the course of the conversation we talk about about Connascence as a Developer Grand Unification Theory, Ruby, Architecture, […]
Read MoreIn a previous post, I talked about cascading deletes being a new feature introduced by NHibernate 2.0. If you haven’t heard about this before, then you’d probably be interested to read about it first. Cascading deletes are all great if your database of choice supports CASCADE DELETE foreign key constraints. But what if it doesn’t […]
Read MoreTo start off, here are the links to my previous posts about CouchDB: Relaxing on the Couch(DB) Installing the Couch(DB) PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room GETting Documents From CouchDB DELETE Documents From CouchDB Adding Attachments to a Document in CouchDB Views into CouchDB I briefly mentioned ‘design documents‘ in my previous post as […]
Read MoreAm I the only one who does this? I like to use Object Mothers in my test projects, especially when I have a large number of services or entities I need to feed into the things I am testing. For example, if I have a class I am testing that takes a constructor argument, I […]
Read MoreOne of the downsides of being confronted with a shared legacy database day in and day out is that you have to map your domain objects to database tables that are also used by other applications. A typical scenario in this case is that those database tables contain more columns than those that are required […]
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