Dot Net Tricks

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

Software Theosophy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Software Theosophy — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Giving up on the community

Software Theosophy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:34:00 GMT

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 "...(read more)

Introducing SNARF

Software Theosophy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

I'm part of an open source project!

Software Theosophy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Found some good code today

Software Theosophy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Die Code-Behind DIE!!!

Software Theosophy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

For the love of God, Normalize you databases!

Software Theosophy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:45:00 GMT

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...(read more)

TDD + Resharper Payoff - Refactoring

Software Theosophy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:36:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My current architecture

Software Theosophy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

ASP.NET Sucks and It DOES Matter

Software Theosophy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Software Theosophy — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

FWDNUG Meeting Notes and Slides

Software Theosophy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Software Theosophy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Warn3d By CrueLSaw

Software Theosophy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)