Reality Loop

June 15, 2010
My iPad Applications

Update 2010-10-2: I switched to Reeder instead of NewsRack for offline RSS reading and most of the time to ReadItLater instead of InstaPaper for offline content. After one week with my iPad my first apps résumé:The following apps I am using produc...
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June 15, 2010
Learned Today: Joining with Hibernate

Hibernate (and NHibernate) is able to do a lot of different kind of joins. Unfortunately it can not do outer joins on properties that are not mapped as associations. My goal was to get the result of the following SQL-query with an outer join: ...
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June 08, 2010
M-V-VM again: The same but different!

I just can't shut up about the confusion in ui-patterns.During reviewing Manning's upcoming book Lift in Action I cam across yet another variation of the M-V-VM pattern.Lift takes the M-V-VM pattern to the web (so far I have only come across it in...
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May 29, 2010
Quotes of the week

If there is one thing more frightening than mapping your way through a maze of twisty little libraries, it’s getting mired in the framework swamp.- Mike Taylor Refactoring should never appear as a task on a schedule. Keeping code clean is just som...
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May 28, 2010
Speaking at DNUG Bern about BDD and SpecFlow

Next Monday I will give a presentation about BDD and SpecFlow at the .NET User Group Bern. Registration is on the XING Group of DNUG Bern. Thanks to the organisators for inviting me.
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