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Some best practices for NHibernate by Ayende

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:01:11 GMT

A few hours ago I completed a code review of an application using NHibernate. This is not the first time I am doing such a thing, of course, and I noticed that there are quite a few areas where I tend to have comments in such code reviews. The following is based on several such code bases that I went through, and contains a partial list of things that you need to watch for.

Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord (video presentation)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:49:16 GMT

This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.

Are Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman the same person?

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:43:47 GMT

The Guthrie/Hanselman Conspiracy

The reason for the Ayende phenomenon?

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:59:59 GMT

As we all know, Ayende has done a lot for the .NET community. Blog subscription not optional. We heard lots of different people asking if he ever sleeps. How is this possible? I say; follow the link. http://kyle.baley.org/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricMonorailsWhileTheyreHibernating.aspx http://blogs.magiconsoftware.com/blogs/bdiaz/archive/2007/03/25/linq-for-nhibernate.aspx http://www.benmonro.com/Blog/CommentView,guid,18ee917b-6d86-483e-a169-1d9fa0801d60.aspx http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/archive/2007/03/18/new-and-notable-149.aspx http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users/msg/da741a02df25bcaf http://www.ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/01/10/Code-that-read-and-modify-code-code-that-read-codes.aspx

Rhino Security Overview: Part I

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:39:11 GMT

"The main part that we have here is the security model, but notice that the application domain model is off to the side, and have very little to do with the security model. In fact, there is only a single requirement from the application domain model, the User entity needs to implement an interface with a single property, that is all."

Binsor 2.0

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:39:13 GMT

Ayende's Binsor project. Cool new way of managing Windsor configuration with no more xml.

Embracing Fluent Interfaces - Ayende's Response to Jeff Atwood

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:02:57 GMT

"Jeff Atwood is talking about languages in languages, and suggest that you would avoid using fluent interfaces to hide a language semantics. I completely disagree."

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Working with Windsor

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:56:52 GMT

MSDN article on how to use Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, generic specialization, the decorator pattern, chains of responsibilities, and extensible software to build robust, extensible software

The IoC mind set: Validation

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:16:03 GMT

Great approach for business validation.

Simple != Poor Quality

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Ayende offers us another great post - this time he tackles simplicity and quality.

Handling javascript localization in Mono Rail

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:52:40 GMT

I run into the issue of having to alert the user of some error, and it brought home the fact that English & Hebrew are not easy to mix...

Rhino Mocking NHibernate Expressions

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:01:01 GMT

How to extend Rhino Mock to work with NHibernate Expression.

How to mock a NHibernate Repository

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:46:01 GMT

How to use Rhino Mock to mock a Repository based on NHibernate

Visual SVN: Another Zero Friction Tool In The Toolbox

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:31:01 GMT

If Mr. "Zero Friction" himself (Ayende) is recommending a tool it must be good. And boy is it! Visual SVN extends Visual Studio with the same interface as TortoiseSVN - making it nearly transparent for anyone already using TortoiseSVN.

Rhino Mocks 3.0 is available for download

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:01:01 GMT

A dynamic mock object framework for the .Net platform. It's purpose is to ease testing by allowing the developer to create mock implementations of custom objects and verify the interactions using unit testing.