June 2008 Entries
I really need to come up with filtering strategy, or get some long vacations to go thorough all the good stuff that’s there. Any ideas? How do you handle the discussion groups? Technorati Tags: ALT.NET, Castle, XP, NHibernate
Karl Seguin, has created, and made available for free and ebook, called “Foundation of Programming”. Don’t be fooled by its name however. If you’re thinking, “Foundation? I’m a senior level developer, what possibly could I learn from a foundation book?” and intend to pass by it, think again. The topic range spreads from Domain Driven Development, Persistence, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, Mocking, Object/Relational Mapping to Memory Management, Exceptions and Proxies. Looks like a solid weekend read. Thanks a lot Karl! Technorati Tags: ebook, ALT.NET, Foundation of Programming, Karl Seguin
I just love Gallio. It’s my personal Best New Project of the Year. It amazes me how with only this: I get this: Notice that those are NUnit tests, no MbUnit. Pure gold. Technorati Tags: Gallio, NUnit, NCover
Here’s few things I learned the hard way, about WCF. Say you’re using sessions and you have custom behavior on your service and your session. Your session doesn’t get committed and first (or any other) message in session gets delivered over and over (or no message get’s delivered at all) – i.e. it becomes a Poison Message. You have tracing turned on, but all it says is enigmatic ‘RequestContext aborted.’ The reason for that may be that your custom behavior throws an exception, that does get caught silently, but strangely, it...
I could risk saying, that Entity Framework made what ALT.NET movement is today. It was strong voice of resistance against it, that gave the impulse to action for people that started evangelizing about alternative approaches, pointing out its flaws and suggesting corrective actions. I guess to some extent this strong voice has been heard at Microsoft, but due to various reasons, not many changes have been made for v1.0 release.
I’m not very surprised to see ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. (Here you can see who signed it). Sure it' won’t change anything instantly, but I think that...
I encountered interesting issue with WCF today. When calling a service method on the client side, I sometimes received fault with the following message: The message with Action 'SomeUri/Foo/Bar' cannot be processed at the receiver, due to a ContractFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher. This may be because of either a contract mismatch (mismatched Actions between sender and receiver) or a binding/security mismatch between the sender and the receiver. Check that sender and receiver have the same contract and the same binding (including security requirements, e.g. Message, Transport, None). Turns out that this message is...
SourceForge has implemented OpenId, and as you can read here, they're very proud of it. You've been asking for it, and now you get it - SourceForge.net has implemented OpenID. It's a great way to let you cutting-edge web users to more easily get involved on our site. This helps you participate in the Open Source community - whether you're helping out in project trackers, starting a new project, or just throwing down in the Community forums. We're helping you to help us help you some more. As we all know, the main and greatest advantage of OpenId is...
I just love living in Kraków. There are so many incredible things going on here all the time. Yesterday I went to Błonia, to see one of the most spectacular shows I've ever seen. As a part of the 1st Film Music Festival, Błonia were changed to giant open-air cinema, where Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was screened. The best part however, is that the complete soundtrack was performed live during the movie. The orchestra + choirs summed up to total of almost 300 people on stage. You can get a taste of...