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"The Entity Data Model is much bigger than just an ORM" -- Stephen Forte
With almost bleeding ears I'm currently listening to show #369 of .NET Rocks! , which has Danny Simmons and Stephen Forte as guests. Danny is of course known of his major role in the Entity Framework (EF) design and Forte is one of the Council of Wise...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:51 PM by FransBouma | 14 comment(s)

The evil of the Office UI ribbon license
For the next major version of a certain application I'm working on (gee, what might that be ) I'm researching some UI frameworks and techniques. In the past few months I've spend most of my time working on application support library code, language designs...

Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:21 PM by FransBouma | 16 comment(s)

Why use the Entity Framework? Yeah, why exactly?
Danny Simmons wrote a marketing piece about the project he's been working on for so long: " Why use the Entity Framework? ". I don't expect Danny to be unbiased towards his own work, so at first I just ignored it: Microsoft produces these kind of ' use...

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 12:42 PM by FransBouma | 32 comment(s)

Anti-agile hatemail
Today I received through the contact form on this blog a hate-mail from a guy who called himself 'Ryan'. Ryan used a fake, non-existing email address so the only way to respond to him is via my blog, hence this post. Let's look at the email first: From...

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 11:35 AM by FransBouma | 35 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 14
Update: I made a mistake in the first Linq to Sql query. It's not that slow as I previously posted. I didn't filter on country, which made it pull the rows of all 91 customers into memory instead of the 11. Fetching 91 customer rows, 818 order rows and...

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 7:18 PM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 13
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Last time I talked about implementing Single. It turned out to be fairly straightforward, but as I explained in the previous episode, it's a weird method and has different behavior related...

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:58 PM by FransBouma | with no comments

Some gems in comments
From the comments in 'Portraint of a n00b' by Yegge : I program in English. After reviewing the English, I comment in Java after each sentence to let the computer know how to do it. In essence, I program in dual languages. IMHO the approach is what's...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 7:19 PM by FransBouma | 2 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 11
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) In the previous post in this series , I mentioned that I had completed the work on all the major parts of a SELECT query. SELECT is what a Linq provider is all about (as Linq queries are...

Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:20 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

Codebase size isn't the enemy
In Steve Yegge 's latest blog post , he argues that the size of a code base is the code's worst enemy. Today, Jeff Atwood wrote a follow-up with the same sentiments. Now, both bloggers are great writers and have almost always insightful articles. However...

Posted Monday, December 24, 2007 12:41 PM by FransBouma | 24 comment(s)

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