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Is BDUF really BDUF?
Justing Etheredge posted a great article about that Design Up Front (DUF) is something else than Big Design Up Front (BDUF). He discusses the misunderstanding that just because BDUF is considered harmful in a lot of projects, it's not said that DUF is...

Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:53 AM by FransBouma | 10 comment(s)

LLBLGen Pro v2.6 has been released!
After almost 11 months of design, development, beta testing and adding final polish, it's here: LLBLGen Pro v2.6 ! This version, which is a free upgrade for all our v2.x customers, has a couple of major new features, the biggest of course being the full...

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 11:37 AM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

VB.NET: Beware of the 'Aggregate' keyword (updated)
UPDATE I tested this initially with EmployeeID and noticed the strange behavior. Writing this blogpost I thought the max of the employeeID was a little artificial, so I changed that in OrderDate. But... what happened (see my reply to this blogpost below...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:36 PM by FransBouma | 7 comment(s)

Linq to Sql support added to LLBLGen Pro
Imagine, you're sitting at your desk and you're using the Linq to Sql designer in VS.NET 2008 and you have, say, 50 entities in your model. You're happy about how things are progressing. It took a while to get the model set up, considering the wicked...

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:50 PM by FransBouma | 14 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 12
(Updated Wednesday 30-jan-2008). It was mentioned that we would implement 'Skip' as well, although we already had a paging method added, TakePage(). After carefull analysis, we decided not to implement Skip for now. The reason is that it can lead to confusing...

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:22 PM by FransBouma | 6 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 10
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Whoa, almost a month without an update! The truth is that I wanted to finish GroupBy support before posting another article in this ongoing series, and it took almost 3 weeks to get it right...

Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 3:18 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

Categorizing Software Engineers
Jeff Atwood posted a nice blog post today about The Two Types of Programmers . I always like to refer to programmers by using the term 'Software Engineer', when they're software engineering. The term 'programmer' is often associated with a 'code monkey...

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 6:51 PM by FransBouma | 9 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 8
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Today I managed to arrive back at the point I stopped with my current code base a couple of weeks ago to re-implement the expression tree reduction code. I'm not totally done with re-connecting...

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:58 PM by FransBouma | 7 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 7
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Last time I talked about the switch to the approach where most Queryable extension methods should be seen as sets on their own. What happened after that? Well, initially, I continued on the...

Posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 1:46 PM by FransBouma | with no comments

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 6
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) I switched to 'part' posts instead of 'day' posts, as I realized the initial plan (post every day) isn't that useful in this case ("Today I stared at 20 lines of code for 3 hours before I...

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 1:29 PM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

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