Can Saying the F-word on a Plane Land You in Jail?
We had an interesting encounter when flying US Airways from San-Diego to Philadelphia a couple of days ago. This was a red-eye overnight flight. A young woman with a little […]
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Stone Axes Are No Longer Supported
During the wonderful 4th of July weekend, I discussed with a friend the widening gap between the world of commercial software development and the world of “advanced technology”. I am […]
TFS
Since I work mostly with big corporate clients, I am at the mercy of their company policies. TFS had been released a while ago, but only now it makes its […]
An ORM Layer in Roundup
Roundup, an bug/issue tracker has a nice approach to ORM. It is written in Python, they have a file called schema.py where you define your database schema in Python. It […]
NHibernate — continued
So, I am still looking for that hbm2ddl tool. I have opened the source project and built everything there. No hbm2ddl in sight. I could, of course, just write an […]
Trying NHibernate
I was recently doing and small research project and got kinda tired of mechanically spitting out all those boring chants like using (var cmd = new SqlCommand(“SELECT foo, bar FROM […]
How I lost name resolution
One not so bright day I connected my laptop to the home network and discovered that I lost name resolution. I.e., I could ping other computers by IP address, but […]
Merging Configs (WCF and otherwise)
Following up on the WCF config theme. Back in April I wrote a config merger for our CAB application. General scenario was as follows: we had a central “shell” application […]
WCF Configuration
Thoughts from one of my last projects. It is difficult to create a well-isolated component that uses a WCF client under the covers. WCF reads end-point configuration settings from the […]
Is .NET a Java clone?
One of my friends said that he admires Microsoft marketing genius for creating a Java clone and bringing it to commercial success. But is .NET really a Java clone? On […]