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• Deleting all records in all tables in the entire database using NHibernate

  This is a great little code snippet I thought I'd share. Before each one of my NUnit or NBehave tests, I clear out all the records from the database using NHibernate. Unfortunately, NHibernate's HQL doesn't seem to do cascade deletes, so you... Posted Jan 19 2010, 08:43 AM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, OOP, O/R Mapping, Sql Server, Databases

• ASP.NET MVC - Multiple buttons on a single form.

  I haven't posted in a while do to being busy with my new job, but I thought I'd just share this code snippet. In the new asp.net mvc framework, you often have the need for a single form, but multiple buttons that each post to a different controller... Posted May 06 2009, 03:08 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development

• Giving up on the community

  I know nobody reads my blog anyway, but I still feel the need to comment (rant) to the blogosphere. The back story goes like this. Joel Spoelsky said some pretty irresponsible things in an interview, calling SOLID principles bureaucratic and saying "... Posted Feb 14 2009, 08:34 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, OOP

• Introducing SNARF

  I'm now part of two open source project, although this one I really want to be hands off. So if anyone is interested in taking it over, feel free. Here's a description from google code: SNARF (Simple, Nhibernate, ActiveRecord Framework) This is... Posted Feb 02 2009, 05:10 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, News, OOP, Codesmith, O/R Mapping, Sql Server, Databases

• I'm part of an open source project!

  I'm contributing to the Wilson O/R Mapper project which is now open source and on google code. I'm adding fluent mappings for WORM in the same manner as Fluent NHibernate. Exciting stuff! http://code.google.com/p/wilsonormapper/source/browse/#svn... Posted Jan 07 2009, 06:37 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, News, O/R Mapping, Databases

• Found some good code today

  I'm hoping this won't offend any of you out there, but most of us developers write crappy code. I'm not fully sure why this is, but even if the database isn't a steaming pile of horse poo, the code usually is. There's often a lot of... Posted Dec 21 2008, 04:01 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Agile, OOP, O/R Mapping, Databases

• Die Code-Behind DIE!!!

  As mentioned in previous episodes, my team is standardizing on the ASP.NET MVC Framework for web development. One thorn in our sides has been that by default, Visual Studio would create a code-behind for your views automatically, and if you wanted a view... Posted Dec 19 2008, 09:37 AM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, News

• For the love of God, Normalize you databases!

  Despite that stupid presentation about "normalization is for sissies" that went around the net for a while, I'm very pro-normalization. Normalization and the standard Third Normal Form (3nf) simplify data management and application development... Posted Dec 12 2008, 08:45 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Rants, Databases

• TDD + Resharper Payoff - Refactoring

  So the project i mentioned the other day in my last post has had minimal need for refactoring. Part of that is because I'm such a super badass developer who always gets things right the first time (yeah right), and part of it is that the project is... Posted Dec 11 2008, 05:36 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile

• My current architecture

  For the six or seven of you in the world that actually read my blog, you've noticed that i've been pretty quiet lately. So while i'm chomping down breakfast before work, I thought I'd give you a rundown on what i've been doing lately... Posted Dec 10 2008, 08:22 AM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, News, OOP, O/R Mapping, Sql Server, Databases

• ASP.NET Sucks and It DOES Matter

  This is partially in response to this somewhat infamous article by Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html In this Jeff mentions that although PHP as a language and platform sucks, it doesn’t matter. Its low barrier to entry... Posted Aug 03 2008, 08:13 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, OOP

• sql server management studio has “backup sets” and “destinations on disk” disabled

  I ran into this little gotcha a little while ago, so I thought I’d share it and break my blog silence. One of our clients hosts their own sql server (express) and website, and I kept noticing that there was no way to do a backup. When I went into sql... Posted May 20 2008, 02:56 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Sql Server, Databases

• FWDNUG Meeting Notes and Slides

  Thanks to Stephen and the other members at the Fort Worth .NET User Group for having me speak. I enjoyed it and hopefully my audience did too. I'm sorry this has taken a while to post, but as promised I have all the slides and a list of resources... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:56 AM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, News, OOP, O/R Mapping, Databases

• I'm speaking at the Fort Worth .NET user group

  On March 18th I'll be speaking at the Fort Worth .NET user group at Justin Brands. The topic will be a favorite of mine: O/R Mapping Patterns and Tools. Come by say hello or throw tomatoes. Info is below: http://fwdnug.com/blogs/meetings/archive/2008... Posted Mar 12 2008, 08:11 AM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, News, OOP, O/R Mapping, Sql Server

• Warn3d By CrueLSaw

  Today I got a very interesting request from my boss. There was one of our sites that had suddenly been defaced with the following text: "Warn3d By CrueLSaw" After some research by one of our Senior Developers (Thanks Pete) he found that this... Posted Mar 10 2008, 05:37 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Rants