Some of you who follow Elegant Code, as well as some of the Elegant Coders may have wondered why my blog went dark for a while this last year. Well, sometimes life just kicks you in the balls. Lets rewind to January of 2009. My wife Katy and I own 3 properties, one we live […]
Read MoreAs my bookshelf has grown out of proportion over the last years, I basically had two options left. First option was to build an extra room onto my house that could serve as a private library, which is kind of expensive. Second option was to the reduce the amount of paper by buying an eReader […]
Read MoreWebCam support in Silverlight 4 is a much anticipated feature, and probably didn?t come as much of a surprise. It?s relatively simple to enable this feature. The below example shows a simple UI with the code to enable the webcam. This post does not cover multiple webcams, however calling CaptureDeviceConfiguration.GetAvailableVideoCaptureDevices returns a list of all […]
Read MoreI was asked today, “what’s this whole ‘Microsoft Azure’ thing about?” I haven’t done anything with Azure, EC2, or Google Apps Engine, but why let my ignorance stop me from blogging about it? So here’s a brief summary of what I understand about these cloud technologies – I find the whole idea fascinating and am […]
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 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 […]
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