Tonight a viewer of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series I was having an IM conversation with was kind enough to point me to a blog post (http://dotnetmagic.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!709F68A62F06375F!184.entry) wherein an enterprising young blogger (I’m going to assume its a ‘young’ blogger since I’d like to think that a more mature developer would have more respect [...]
Since demonstrating the Microdesk Unit Test Utility in the Summer of NHibernate series, several people have adopted it for their own work in leveraging NDbUnit to interact with the database during unit testing. I’m very happy to see that this approach is of interest to at least a segment of the community and I have [...]
After a bit of trouble today, I have now re-encoded the installment for the above-referenced screencast. I’m still not entirely certain how this happened, but somehow Camtasia Studio decided to silently truncate the final five minutes or so of the screencast during the encoding process. Since I’ve never had any trouble with Camtasia Studio in [...]
I applogize for this, but I have just been made aware that the video of Session 13 that I uploaded last evening is truncated near its end. I have inspected the wmv file and confirmed this to be the case.
I will upload a re-encoded version of the wmv file this evening; sorry for any [...]
Summer of NHibernate Feedback: this isn’t real!
During my production of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series, I have routinely received questions from viewers that tend to want me to dig into more real-world issues that come into play in the development of a non-demo/non-sample application. Since the focus of the code samples in the NHibernate [...]
After a bit of a delay (VSLive, my wedding anniversary, helping to launch the first meeting of the NYC ALT.NET user group, and a bit of a push for a project at work), I am pleased to announce that the next installment in the Summer of NHibernate Screencast series is now (finally!) available for immediate [...]
If you haven’t already heard, Microsoft is actually doing the previously-unthinkable and bundling the truly incredible JQuery library into future versions of Visual Studio (incl. Express), the ASP.NET MVC beta/CTP releases, and presumably anything else web-y that they release in the future. They will be providing integrated support for intellisense with JQuery methods in the [...]
Question:
How do you know nowadays that something in developer technology has been perverted completely beyond its initial intent into something horribly disfigured and unrecognizable to its original authors?
Answer:
When people start to feel the need to put the phrase "Plain-Old-" in front of it.
Whether POJO (Plain-Old-Java-Objects), POCO (Plain-Old-C#-Objects or Plain-Old-CLR-Objects for the VB-heads out [...]
I just wanted to ensure visitors to this blog that I am not dead and the next installment of the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series is still coming. Other conflicting committments have forced me to delay it one more week; its new ETA is now the end of next week rather than this week as previously [...]
I had the opportunity early last week to attend the VSLive! New York .NET Developer conference from 9/8 thru 9/10 and I learned quite a bit from my attendance. For context, the following is the list of talks that I chose to attend…
Monday
Best Practices in ASP.NET 2.0/3.5: defending yourself from worst practices by Richard Hale [...]
