NHibernate.Profiler now available!

devlicio.us — Rob and Christopher Bennage have had the fantastic opportunity to contribute to Ayende's NHibernate Profiler. It's somewhat analogous to SQL Profiler, and yet—oh, so much more. read more...

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Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part II: The Basics

devlicio.us — In part one of this three part series, I offered what we’d ideally like when using NHibernate, or any ORM for that matter, with custom collections in the domain layer. To reiterate, the ORM should have as little impact as possible on how custom collections within the domain are structured and how relationships between classes are declared. At the very least, there should be no references to the ORM, or ORM-supporting assemblies from the domain, whatsoever. The discussed solution achieves these goals. read more...

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Using Embedded Resources for HTML EMail Templates

devlicio.us — Most web applications need to send out email for a variety of purposes, right? I like to use email as a sort of extended user interface - allowing entry points to let the user conveniently do work by getting an email and clicking on a link. I've struggled for a while with a good way of managing email templates to use in my applications. Here's a good method that simplifies the process of templating. read more...

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Conveying Agile Processes Concisely to Clients

devlicio.us — When beginning a new project of any appreciable size and scope, I always start with a project charter to define the project vision, the business case for the product, basic scope and critical success factors. I also use the project charter to clearly define, to the stakeholders of the project, the agile processes that will be employed to manage project development. read more...

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Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development

devlicio.us — Recently I gave two days worth of talks introducing an organization to agile management and development with Scrum and XP practices. I've made available the presentations and exercises for the betterment of mankind...or at least to get a few more people familiar with agile development. Included is also a discussion of the agile practices that I find effective. read more...

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Using NUnitAsp to test pages w/Forms Authentication

devlicio.us — The following derived class from NUnitAsp's WebFormTestCase class creates a Forms Authentication session by invoking the login page of the application, populating the username and password fields with real data, and submitting the form to allow the web application to set up the authentication session... read more...

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