Whoa time flies! . After 9 months of hard work, LLBLGen Pro v2.0 has been released! LLBLGen Pro V2.0 comes with a new licensing scheme: it's now licensed per seat, instead of per-department. Current customers of v1.0.200x.y can upgrade for EUR 49.- per developer. (Designer using developers need a license...

Several days ago it finally arrived: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson ! It's Jimmy's latest book and it's great. Well, 'great' is not really the word, it's more a matter of Must Have , it's that good. It's perhaps a bit strange, to hear from me that a DDD/TDD book, which this...

Several days ago it finally arrived: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson ! It's Jimmy's latest book and it's great. Well, 'great' is not really the word, it's more a matter of Must Have , it's that good. It's perhaps a bit strange, to hear from me that a DDD/TDD book, which this...

Recently, Scott Guthrie blogged about using DLinq with ASP.NET . I read the interesting article and thought... that must be possible today, with code using normal .NET 2.0! So, I started LLBLGen Pro v2.0 (V2 is currently in beta) and yes, I was able to do everything Scott showed in his article, with...

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 which doesn't use a cache is therefore less efficient...

Last week I had the privilege to spend 5 days in Arosa, Switzerland, among a group of people who were way more smarter than I am, for the annual Software Architecture Workshop (SAW). The SAW in Europe is an initiative of Jimmy Nilsson , and uses the Open Spaces methodology to let the participants discuss...

I ran into this today and it was simply too good to pass on: Like most O/R solutions today, ObjectSpaces attempted to support a rich set of mappings and scenarios through custom query generation. Adding support for a new type of inheritance mapping, for example, meant adding code to a query generator...

First, read the announcement here . Had that deja-vu yet? Me too . But let's not get into that right now, because I do think the Entity Framework situation is different from the WinFS/ObjectSpaces situation. So what's going on here? The following is my speculation why they've cut it from .NET 3.5/Orcas...

I ran into this today and it was simply too good to pass on: Like most O/R solutions today, ObjectSpaces attempted to support a rich set of mappings and scenarios through custom query generation. Adding support for a new type of inheritance mapping, for example, meant adding code to a query generator...

Last week I had the privilege to spend 5 days in Arosa, Switzerland, among a group of people who were way more smarter than I am, for the annual Software Architecture Workshop (SAW). The SAW in Europe is an initiative of Jimmy Nilsson , and uses the Open Spaces methodology to let the participants discuss...