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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 03 Sep 2010 09:00

The Law of Conservation of TradeoffsSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Every so often I see a group of people or a company come up with a new Thing. That new Thing is supposed to solve a set of problems. The common set of problems that people keep trying to solve are: Data access with relational databases..."
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The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 02 Sep 2010 09:00

How far can you push commercialization?Subscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....I was recently at a private company event (not my company, I was invited, along with others, because we have a close association to that company). The event itself wasn’t notable, but there was one thing that really bothered me, before the event..."
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How far can you push commercialization?
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 01 Sep 2010 09:16

NHibernate Quick-start Workshop - November 1thSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Tikal is delighted to invite you to join our .NET open source workshop on November 1th , lead by Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien) and other Tikal .NET experts. Tikal offers a set of software development tools and methodologies that enable .NET developers..."
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NHibernate Quick-start Workshop - November 1th
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 01 Sep 2010 09:00

Don’t TOUCH that debugger, you moron, READ the exception stackSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....There is a tendency to reach the debugger for every error that you run, but in most cases, it is the exception (and the exception stack) that provides enough to solve the problem in 99% of the cases. Case in point, I made some changes to Uber Prof..."
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Don’t TOUCH that debugger, you moron, READ the exception stack
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Steve Smith | Steve Smith's Blog | 01 Sep 2010 00:22

Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration FilesSubscribe to Steve Smith's Blog

Steve Smith writes "....In .NET, it’s very easy to set up custom configuration section handlers to handle your application or component’s configuration needs.  As my previous post shows, it’s also very easy to configure these with attributes that enforce required..."
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Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 31 Aug 2010 23:41

It is an issue of trafficSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....I just had to respond to this post, Davy Brion talks about the Ruby community, and he had the following to say: When i asked them about interesting resources to follow as a newbie Rubyist, they all gladly shared their suggestions. When i thanked..."
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It is an issue of traffic
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 31 Aug 2010 09:00

It really happened, legacy programmers talesSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Fairy tales always start with “Once upon a time”, and programmers tales starts with “when I was at a client”… Two days ago I was a client, and the discussion turned to bad code bases, as it often does. One story that I had hard time understanding..."
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It really happened, legacy programmers tales
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 30 Aug 2010 09:00

Entity != TableSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....I recently had a chance to work on an interesting project, doing a POC of moving from a relational model to RavenDB. And one of the most interesting hurdles along the way wasn’t technical at all, it was trying to decide what an entity is. We are so..."
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Entity != Table
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Scott Guthrie | ScottGu's Blog | 30 Aug 2010 06:23

August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7Subscribe to ScottGu's Blog

Scott Guthrie writes "....Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and..."
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August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7
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Scott Guthrie | ScottGu's Blog | 30 Aug 2010 04:57

Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog GrowingSubscribe to ScottGu's Blog

Scott Guthrie writes "....One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying). The Visual Studio team recently released a patch that fixes..."
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Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Growing
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Oren Eini is a senior developer / architect, focusing on architecture, data access and best practices. Most often, he is working on building complex business systems using .Net 2.0, NHibernate and Castle's Frameworks, providing training and guidance for the use of Object Relational Mapping, Inversion of Control, Domain Driven Design and other exciting topics. Oren is an active member in several leading Open Source projects, including (but not limited :-) ) NHibernate, Castle and Rhino Mocks.

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Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

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Rob Conery (robconery)

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Scott Hanselman (shanselman)

Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @mbric @jordanshane LOL! about an hour ago from Twitter for iPhone


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

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Steve Smith (ardalis)

Steve Smith (ardalis) @cromwellryan Works! Got rid of [name].sqlfile.sql and [name]_log.sqlfile.sql in the root of the project and now it all works. about an hour ago from HootSuite


Scott Watermasysk (scottw)

Scott Watermasysk (scottw) Clay is looking very interesting http://bit.ly/94fsy5 about 1 hours ago from bitly


Rob Conery (robconery)

Rob Conery (robconery) "Omniscient" + "Magnificent" == omnificent. Or, in other words, @ayende http://bit.ly/bHlpfT about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck


Rob Conery (robconery)

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Scott Watermasysk (scottw)

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