Unhandled Exceptions

15 Oct

Entity Framework 4 Firestarter: That’s a Wrap!

This post is a bit overdue, slightly out of chronological order, and will probably have me rambling a bit too much but I’ve been busy lately – so sue me
Earlier this year I was was asked if I wanted to participate in delivering the Entity Framework Firestarter event here in NYC.  I [...]

22 Nov

The Continuing Quest for DEATH of string-literals in my Code…

Warning: this post won’t entirely make sense unless you first read the two other posts whose links are provided in the body of this one.
As mentioned in detail in the T4 Templatng Engine to the Rescue post, I am not a great big fan of literal strings littered all over my code (data-access or otherwise).  [...]

17 Oct

T4 Templating Engine to the Rescue (sort of~!)

Its somewhat funny to me how the usual ‘knock’ against Open Source Software is the poor quality of the documentation that often accompanies it.  “Why can’t we have professional quality, comprehensive documentation for these OSS projects just like the really solid, professional quality documentation that comes from — oh, I don’t know — Microsoft for [...]

04 Oct

The Four Stages of Object-Relational Mapping (a progression)

In my career I have seen many a developer embark on the journey that eventually leads them to what I would term ‘Object-Relational Mapping as it was originally intended‘.  After watching this process over and over again, I have reached the conclusion that the path is always the same.  Different people on the journey may [...]

10 Aug

Summer of NHibernate Session 08: Techniques for Effective Database-Driven Modeling is now available

The latest installment of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series is now available for download.
I will warn potential viewers in advance that this session is heavily focused on techniques and approaches that tend to contradict most Domain-Driven-Design/Development practices so please don’t waste your time telling me this — I know it already .  Leveraging NHibernate [...]

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