Even though NHibernate 3.0 is on the way I am going to highlight a feature that was introduced in v2.1 but that relatively few people seem to be using (at least in the code bases I have seen recently). Former ECer Davy Brion, as always, does an excellent job of demonstrating usage of the feature […]
Read MoreWhat MSDN says: enum (C# Reference) Why can?t this just work?
Read MoreI had a comment on my last post Tips for ORM Data Access which i would like like to address with this blog post. I have been trying to wrap my head around the role of the DTO in DDD. My reading of Fowler and Evans seems to indicate that you ought to have your […]
Read MoreBrad Wilson has recently completed a blog series about Templates in MVC 2. I really like this feature as it provides me with the ability to quickly generate screens, even if eventually I might have to go back and rework them. Basically I want to have my cake and eat it – I want the […]
Read MoreIn my last post I took a stab at Lazy Loading data access, and pointed out a concrete example of why I don?t like it. As with anything there are trade-offs. Here are a few practices I use for clean and fast data access. They are heavily influenced by some common patterns from PoEAA, and […]
Read MoreI find it ironic that we allow our tooling to mask the biggest bottleneck in the system: The database. Having worked with the majority of the ORM tools out there, I can tell you the most common contributor to slow system performance is lazy loading for Data Access. I?ve seen this one all too many […]
Read MoreOne of the personal reasons that I had for co-founding Guild 3 was for me to re-discover my passion for software. I was suffering from something similar to what Davy Brion (quite bravely) outlined in Avoiding (Or Recovering From) Burnout. For me the age old adage of “a change is as good as a rest” […]
Read MoreI needed to delete a work item in TFS and found that by design it is not easy to do. I found that this can be done using the TFS Power Tools via the command line. tfpt.exe destroywi /server:http://ServerName:8080 /workitemid:123 You will get a warning: This action is not recoverable. Are you sure you want […]
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