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Martin Fowler's recent post about object-relational mapping matches my own analysis of the usefulness of ORM tools. They are no silver bullet, but they should not be dismissed without valid reason. If you want me to give up using ORM tools, you have to...
After seven years with webhost4life , it was time to move on. Especially because of all the troubles with webhost4life due to their internal migration to a new hosting environment (the company has been bought out). I've just moved all my websites elsewhere...
Should I need a reason to hate Apple, it would be censorship . This is not the first time Apple censors an application on the iPhone, but this time it's scarier. They censor software, and they censor books. Are users of iPhones and Apple products fully...
The first version of the New York Times Reader was showcased in 2006 as one of the first and major WPF applications. Then, the Times Reader was ported to Silverlight, so it can work on non-Windows platforms such as Mac OS and Linux. The fact that WPF...
Eric Lippert , whose blog you shouldn't miss, adds his own arguments to the debate about whether using a ForEach extension method instead of foreach is a good idea or a bad one. I don't see a definitive answer to the question. All the arguments given...
C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 introduced implicit typing. When you use anonymous types, it's required. The rest of the time, it's mostly a judgment call to decide whether to use implicitly-typed local variables or not. An interesting discussion is going on about...
Ok, well, this is a catchy title, but this is the way I feel right now. When Acropolis was announced, it was supposed to become the industrialized replacement for the CAB (Composite UI Application Block) and the SCSF (Smart Client Software Factory). Unfortunately...
Andres Aguiar started an interesting discussion about disconnected operation and change tracking in the ADO.NET Entity Framework . Andres regrets that the Entity Framework doesn't provide change tracking information: This basically means that if you...
As we are about to reach an important step with the LINQ in Action book that will make the first bits public, we start to look back at what we did and how it happened. Steve , who is working on the book with me, says that writing a book is hard . Roy...
A Java developer reports that the management of the group he works for inside a contractor company has decided to move from Java to .NET. The developer gives the reasons he sees behind this decision. I guess we could sum up what he writes like this: ...
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