Reality Loop

April 19, 2011
After all, ORM might really be the Vietnam of Computer Sience ...

The best DSL I've ever seen for working with data is SQL. - Rob Conery, Thoughts on WebMatrix The last mile is what kills object-relational mapping. Rails ActiveRecord does not try to go the last mile. - Paul Wilson, The Vietnam of Test Driv...
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April 17, 2011
Published: My podcast about Reactive Extensions for .NET (RX) with Bart De Smet

My interview with Bart De Smet about Reactive Extensions for .NET has been published last week. You can download the podcast episode directly or you can can subscribe to our podcast feed in iTunes. Reactive Extensions is a really interestin...
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March 28, 2011
TechTalk Event: What can you develop in 24 hours?

On April 14th my co-worker Thomas will hold a very promising presentation about Rapid Application Development with modern development tools. He will present the findings from a daring experiment: "One application, three platforms, 24 hours: Missi...
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March 23, 2011
Interesting: Continuous Integration vs. Feature Branches

In this interview Martin Fowler advises against using Feature Branches, since it is incompatible with Continuous Integration: So we very much follow the principles of continuous integration, which is not something you can do at the same time as...
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March 21, 2011
Speaking at the Norwegian Developers Conference 2011

Gaspar and I were invited to the Norwegian Developers Conference. We will hold two sessions: SpecFlow: Pragmatic BDD for .NET (hopefully with a guest appearance by Dale of Mono fame) Building .NET applications with BDD Thanks to Jonas Fel...
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