17 Jul
2008

It’s the little things

A while ago, I wrote a blog post regarding Test Data Builders Refined. Earlier this week, I wrote a very simple base class that provides an implicit cast operator for the builder class: public abstract class TestDataBuilder<TSubject> { public abstract TSubject Build(); public static implicit operator TSubject(TestDataBuilder builder) { return builder.Build(); } } Even I […]

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14 Jul
2008

Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF – Throwing the WCF facility and some Rhino Tools in the mix

A while ago, I wrote this post about how to integrate Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF. Last weekend, I used the WCF integration facility of Castle Windsor to accomplish pretty much the same thing, but with less code. We all want that, now don’t we? As a first step, I created a class that […]

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12 Jul
2008

Book review: Code Leader – Using People, Tools and Processes to Build Successful Software

Like Karl Seguin’s most excellent book about the Foundations of the Programming (which is highly recommended), this book covers the basics that each programmer should live and breathe. Software developers with only a couple of years of experience will benefit the most from this book. Patrick Cauldwell nicely introduces essential topics like Test-Driven Development, Continuous […]

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14 Jun
2008

Book review: NHibernate in Action

Writing this book review feels kind of weird  because it hasn’t actually hit the shelves yet. It is accessible however through the Manning Early Access Program. This book provides a clear insight of using NHibernate as the data access layer of your applications and beyond. The excessive amount of NHibernate features  isn’t the only thing […]

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