http://www.simonsegal.net/blog A practitioner's introspective on technology Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:14:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Before diving in you might like to read parts 1, 2 and 3 if you have come to this post out of sync. Also if you are not familiar with some of the newer aspects of the Code Only CTP for Entity Framework it might be worth looking here on ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/03/15/helping-entity-framework-v40-play-its-role-part-40/ Does this look like you? Are you surrounded by like minded individuals, sharing a community experience at work with your fellow geeks? Perhaps you have even gone further than that and made a lasting friend or two out of your fellow developers. That certainly describes  the kind ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/03/12/are-we-not-men-we-are-devo/ Hot on the heels of Udi’s visit to Melbourne this year (in January), comes another chance to make good if you missed out. Plans are underway for Udi to visit us yet again, this time in Sydney. If your interested check out Udi’s post and register your interest using ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/03/04/adsd-course-with-udi-dahan-in-sydney-australia-for-november-2010/ In part 1.0 we laid the foundation and part 2.0 unravelled some of the internal details of how NFetchSpec (the libraries that are subject of this discussion) goes about enlisting the benefits that can be derived by using explicit roles in your system by collapsing a swathe of Entity Framework ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/02/21/helping-entity-framework-v40-play-its-role-part-30/ Doing .Net Days for March 6th 2010 is now fully booked. Thanks to all those who have registered. It’s becoming apparent that the current venue may not be large enough to accommodate the interest moving forward so we are exploring alternative venues and will keep you up date as ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/02/18/doing-net-days-march-6th-fully-booked/ The content of this series of posts is based around a spiking effort / proof of concept that aims to modularize (I am avoiding the word framework) a set of libraries for the express purpose of addressing business intent for Domain models persisted with the Entity Framework. In part 1.0 ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/02/17/helping-entity-framework-v40-play-its-role-part-20/ It’s time to get Doing .NET Days off and running for 2010 and whilst we were originally expecting to be running on the 27th of February it has proven difficult to book the training facility for that date. Therefore I can announce that Saturday the 6th of March is ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/02/13/doing-net-days-announcement/ This is the final part of the series on using IronPython together with the Entity Framework. Part 1.0 In this first instalment we setup the discussion on what we were trying achieve, how to use the __clrtype__ class in IronPython 2.6 to create PODO’s (Plain Old Dlr Objects) ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/02/06/ironpython-and-the-entity-framework-part-50-concluded/ After having recently sat through Udi’s 5 day course on Advanced Distributed  Systems Design (ADSD) and after several days of quiet introspection punctuated with some random reconnecting to the web full of it’s opinion and ideas, I found myself ever more at peace with the challenges that lie ahead. During ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/02/04/adsd-nservicebus-and-nuclear-armament-the-full-story/ It came to my attention recently that a site called SOA Guru have been scraping my blog and knocking off every single post and publishing under the name of their Admin user. What really annoys me is not that they are earning money off my work but more so that ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/30/why-the-soa-guru-web-site-sucks/ I’m not about to cut all ties with my relational past and abandon the RDBMS. No, indeed that’s not the appropriate response – well at least not at this stage. So an exploration is what is going to be required to help in clarifying whether MongoDB can find a place ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/26/finding-my-way-with-mongodb-and-c-part-10/ On the 19th of January 2010 Udi Dahan presented on Command Query Responsibility Segregation. The Presentation took place in front of the Victorian .NET User Group. The video jumps around a bit early on but it does settle after a few minutes or so. Also the audio is a bit ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/25/cqrs-presentation-by-udi-dahan-recorded-in-melbourne/ As a an avid NServiceBus admirer my curiosity about the testability of Workflows in .NET 4.0 led me to ask the question in a group setting recently. One of the responses was “why would you want to test a workflow”? The respondent continued with “surely you would only unit ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/16/why-would-you-want-to-test-your-windows-workflows-and-wf-services/ We left off with IPY.exe crashing and leaving us a dump file. The code that forced the crash: orders = ctx.Orders.Where("it.CustomerID > 'C'") for order in Orders: print Order.CustomerID I speculated that something other than member assignment (made by the Entity Framework) to string types in the underlying CLR type ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/14/entity-framework-ironpython-and-podos-can-it-be-done-part-4/ Before we dive into proxies when using POCO in the Entity Framework lets have a quick recap on where we left off in part 2.0. Entity Framework will load PODO’s (plain old DLR Objects) fine as long as: No primitives other than strings are used for fields and properties Eager Loading works when ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/13/entity-framework-ironpython-and-podos-can-it-be-done-part-3/ Udi Dahan (aka the Software Simplist and original author of NServiceBus) will be presenting to the Victoria.Net User Group on the 19th of January in the Melbourne CBD at Innovation@257, Collins St. The evening begins at 5:30 PM with pizza and drinks and presentations begin at 6:00 PM. Visit this ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/12/udi-dahan-to-present-at-victoria-dnug-on-19th-january-cqrs/ Over the course of the next month or so I will be posting a series on using a set of helper libraries which I refer to as NFetchSpec. I have taken the somewhat unusual course of creating this dedicated post that will act as an index of sorts for this ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/11/entity-framework-repositories-fetching-strategies-specification-and-mapping-using-nfetchspec-for-role-driven-development-parts-1-4/ Only one week until this years course with Udi begins – very exciting. If you were hoping to attend and you missed out on a spot then you might be pleased that one has opened up at the last minute, so jump on it if you want to attend. http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/10/soa-ddd-5-day-course-with-udi-dahan/ One thing that we sorely lack in Australia is quality conferences for software developers. Yes it’s true we have TechEd but I find that many great presenters do not venture down under for this event. We have nothing that comes vaguely close to something like the Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC) ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/08/isolated-but-not-entirely-forgotten-net-conferences-down-under/ Part 1.0 was setting up for the idea and now in part 2.0 we start to flesh out all the moving parts that would be required to work with IronPython and the Entity Framework and furthermore, do so in such a way that is parallel to how we expect to ... http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2010/01/07/entity-framework-ironpython-and-podos-can-it-be-done-part-2/