Reality Loop

April 22, 2010
.Net QuickTip: Persisting enums as strings with NHibernate

Scenario: You want to map the values of an enum-typed property of an entity as a string into the database with NHibernate. Solution: NHibernate stores enums with their numeric value into the database as default. In order to save the value as st...
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April 20, 2010
BDD: The Twitter Pitch

The Elevator Pitch is so old-school, what counts in our social-networked age is the twitter pitch. There was the challenge from @refractalize: BDD starts out as "tests are specs" now it's "full stack methodology" wondering where it will stop!...
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April 18, 2010
Quotes of the Week

I'm testing outside the spec because the specification is just a rumor. - James Bach, quoted on twitter Parallel realities are far too complex and costly to model in most business systems. - Greg Young, DDDD Google Group follow me...
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April 14, 2010
Hilarious: An Illustrated History of Failure

An Illustrated History of Failure is a very funny presentation about failures in software projects. Thanks briankel for the recommendation (at the techtays presentation in Basel last week). follow me on twitter, I need some friends :-)
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April 13, 2010
M-V-VM: It's not a pattern, just a mess!

Ok, I am being provocative here: After attending LBugnion session "Das “Model-View-ViewModel” Entwurfsmuster" at the TechDays last week and now watching DNR-TV episode 161: Rocky Lhotka on the MVVM Pattern in CSLA .NET 3.8, I now dare to claim ...
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