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NHibernate 2.1.0 GA with LINQ and Fluent
NHibernate 2.1.0 GA has just been released on SourceForge, so I thought it useful to compile the latest versions of both Fluent NHibernate (revision 530) and the NHibernate.LINQ (revision 915) against this new build. You can download them in one package from here.
Book Review: Code Complete 2nd Edition
A few months ago, me and colleague Jonne Kats had a discussion on whether or not to refactor a single- line non-intuitive expression in a properly named method. Just for the sake of the argument, I was against this particular instance, and he was in favor of many very small methods. I felt it was...
Slides and demo code for my TDD/SOLID talk at DevDays 2009
Even though it was just a wildcard session (people had to vote for my proposal), the room had a capacity of only 50 people, and the DevDays organization forgot to list the wildcard sessions on the website, I was very happy to see that the room was more than full. Although I had quite a lot of con...
Try to do this without LINQ
Today, me and my colleague Cor have been busy pair-programming for most of the day. While doing that we tried to build a dictionary which value is an enumerable collection. I think we found a great example of the power of LINQ that I think is worth sharing. Consider the class diagram below. ExamS...
I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009
Thanks to the many votes we received on our wildcard proposals from attendees, colleagues and community members, me, Pieter Joost van de Sande and Dennis van de Stelt have won a timeslot on next week’s Microsoft Developer Days. I’ll be talking about Test Driven Development and SOLID on Thursday M...
About Programmer Lifestyle Dilemmas
Yesterday, I attended the second Devnology meeting in Utrecht and I had a really fun evening. Devnology is an initiative started by Pieter Joost van de Sande and Freek Leemhuis and focuses on sharing experiences, insights and knowledge between members of the entire developer community. That mea...