August 2006 - Posts

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Why a cache in an O/R mapper doesn't make it fetch data faster. by FransBouma

Preface One of the biggest myths in O/R mapper land is about 'caching'. It's often believed that using a cache inside an O/R mapper makes queries much faster and thus makes the O/R mapper more efficient. With that conclusion in hand, every O/R mapper...
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Essay: The Database Model is the Domain Model by FransBouma

Preface To work with data on a semantic basis, it's often useful to specify general definitions of the elements a given portion of logic will work with. For example, an order system works with, among other elements, Order elements. To be able to define...
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Hell has frozen over: VS.NET 2003 SP1 has arrived! by FransBouma

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2006/08/16/702177.aspx Well, better late than never . I'm glad it's finally here. Haven't tried it yet, but will do later today .
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.NET 2.0's ToolStripMenuItem are hard to disable... by FransBouma

Say, you have a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms application with one form and on the form one menu strip at the top, you know, very simple. On that menu strip, you have the menu 'Foo' and on that menu you have a menu item 'Bar', which are in .NET...
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Anonymous comments are off by FransBouma

I switched off anonymous comments, after a truckload of comment spam in the last couple of days. Luckily the CS system contains a moderation system so they don't end up on the blog as comments but it's still annoying as the moderation system mails...
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