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Writing a LINQ Provider for NHibernate

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:02:49 GMT

A university paper on implementing a LINQ provider for NHibernate. Uses HQL instead of CriteriaAPI and the marvellous classes by Matt Warren to implement an IQuerableProvider.

Fantastic NHibernate Overview from Karl Seguin

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:46:06 GMT

Great overview of NHibernate from Karl at CodeBetter.Com. He goes over everything you need to know to get started integrating NHibernate into your projects

Does C# 3.0 Beat Dynamic Languages at their Own Game?

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:01:02 GMT

For the past few years I've heard a lot of hype about dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby. The word on the street has been that their dynamic nature makes developers more productive that those of us shackled to statically typed languages like C# and Java. A couple of weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and start learning Python after spending the past few years doing the majority of my software development in C#. I learned that it was indeed true that you could get things the same stuff done in far less lines of Python than you could in C#. Since it is a general truism in the software industry that the number of bugs per thousand lines of code is constant irrespective of programming language, the more you can get done in fewer lines of code, the less defects you will have in your software.

Performance comparison between Linq, NHibernate and Stored Procs

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:16:02 GMT

A detailed article on a performance comparison between Linq, NHibernate and Stored Procs with ADO.NET

SEO Friendly Text by Image Replacement

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:40:29 GMT

Maximilian Beller has created a smart library which can be used to replace normal html tags with dynamic images. So you can benefit from choosing the font you like and the text effects you like without hurting any web standard. The idea is adopted from SIFR which uses Flash and dotIR which uses GIF-images. The library is SEO friendly and can be attached to any existing project because it replaces html-tags like "h1" on the client with javscript.