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  • NHibernate and Entity Framework Battle it Out in the Real World

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    The scene: a company division with no prior in-house experience using any ORM of any kind. A really, really legacy database-the kind with many composite keys, fields with mystery names, uneven use of enforced keys, etc. Currently, access done through ADO teamed with stored procs containing dynamic sql involving string concatenations (horrible for speed, security…

  • Broken Windows

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    We all know the broken windows idea, but Jan did a nice, clear write-up of it. such a simple idea, so hard to fight in the day-to-day. Professional Under Pressure

  • DDD and Aggregates

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    I started reading Eric Evans’ book Domain Driven Design.  (Seemed like one of those foundation books you have to have read if you want to be a certain type of developer)  I decided to give it a go after I got about halfway through the “Domain Driven Design Quickly” pdf – it seemed interesting enough…

  • Windsor, for real

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    So, I finally got an implementation of an IoC Container (Castle Windsor) set up and being used in a production environment…. Based on the whole settings things up for mocking, it became very clear why they were needed! On a current project, I’d set up and gone though writing tests as I went along.  It…

  • Moq and mocking on a real project

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    So, back to blogging… (the whole moving, changing jobs, losing boxes, and generally throwing my life in disarry made expounding on topics an admittedly lesser priority)  in the past week or so, I’ve looked into Moq, mostly on the basis of it being the newer, cleaner, super-awesome mocking framework.  I’d played with Rhino Mocks in…

  • DC Alt.Net meeting

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    OK, this is a bit late, but last week we had the monthly DC Alt.Net meeting. On a bit of a different spin, the topic of the week was Lisp, led by Craig Andera. I hadn’t done any Lisp save for some very, very simplistic stuff back in the college Programming Languages course, so it…

  • Mini programming exercises

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    For the past few days, I’ve been practicing writing up small programs. By that I mean small, self-contained programs made up of a few classes, maybe in a single file, with a main method so it can be run as a console app, things that can be whipped up quickly. As I’ve pretty exclusively been…

  • Code Camp!

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    Yesterday, I attended my first Code camp.  I thought it was great! Yes, semesters of lectures in college was a bit tiring, but now, I find I’m hungry for them, especially when it’s just a day. I work with some smart, nice people, but as I’m pretty much on my own in my technical area,…

  • MonoRail is rolling

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    Got MonoRail set up on SharpShop, and got a Product List page working with it.  I haven’t done too much thus far,  but I’ve gotten a taste.  First off, it seemed like much more of a pain to set it up than turbogears… It might be because tubogears might be more mature, but it seemed…

  • Maybe a PythonShop #2 is in the works…?

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    Looks like IronPython is not only steps away from their 2.0 version, but is python compliant enough that Django runs. Plus, you get to use .Net stuff like Silverlight, which apparently provides some nice UI functionality. This could be interesting… As for the article title, well sure, I understand the sentiment, but the truth is,…