As 2008 comes to an end and 2009 starts to ramp up, I thought it might be interesting (for me at least!) to look back at some of the important events and changes in 2008 that have most impacted my professional life as a software developer.
The Year of Community
If I had to sum-up what 2008 [...]
For those following along, I have just posted the 15th (yes, I know it says ‘Session 14′, there was a ‘2a’, remember? ) and final installment in the Summer of NHibernate screencast series for download.
As promised, in this installment we port our data-access-layer code and related unit tests to the recently-minted NHibernate 2.0 release (well, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ever since I started the Summer of NHibernate Screencast series I have received periodic e-mail from various viewers wondering just what level of effort goes into producing these videos. In response, I thought I ‘d put together this blog post that outlines my process both for composing the whole series as well as for constructing [...]
The latest installment of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series is now available for immediate download from the main site.
In this screencast we explore how to detach persistent objects from an NHibernate session instance, work with them, and then reattach them to another session so that they can be subsequently persisted by the new session. [...]
I’m happy to announce that as of now the next installment of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series is available for general download from the Main Site.
In this installment we dig into the strategies for modeling object inheritance hierarchies in our database schema using either of NHibernate’s two approaches to this challenge: Table-Per-Class-Hierarchy or Table-Per-SubClass.
We [...]
In case you haven’t already heard, effective immediately NHibernate 2.0 has been released and is available for download on SourceForge! This effectively brings NHibernate into feature-parity with the Java Hibernate 3.2 codebase, which is tremendous news for us NHibernate users.
For a sense of the feature-set that is now available to us .NET users, see the [...]
