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We've moved New blog found here at http://blogs.chayachronicle... RSS is here at http://blogs.chayachronicle... Thanks to GWB for parking me here for a spell :) MIKE ......

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I've been working exclusively alone on a project for a while and have as much liberty as any developer could hope for. I'm a blessed man. Nonetheless, I have tried to kind of "pretend" like I am working in a team environment that has regimented deadlines. This is mostly due to integrity and partly due to prevention for laziness...how easy is it to constantly ......

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I am sure everyone else has already figured this out but thought I'd jot it down here. I wanted to isolate all messages being sent from NHibernate to its own logging file. NHibernate has lots to say during its operations and often the messages it delivers are the only way of tracking down some obsure error since sometimes the exception messages in NHibernate ......

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I needed to implement a component that uses generic parameters. Documentation is sketchy on NHibernate so thot I'd jot it here. I *stole* an IRange implementation from someone and needed to use it for a date range within a class. <component name="DateTimeRange" class="Cei.eMerge.Common.Ra... Cei.eMerge.Common" access="field.camelcase-und... ......

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I am sure I everyone else knows this by now, but I wanted to jot a note. When you are passing strings to an HQL query, it's best practice to assign those strings to a parameter (named or positional) and let HQL escape the special characters for you. So it would look like this when searching by a Name and Distinction tag on an Entity: StringBuilder queryString ......

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For the first 14 years of my professional life, I was a touring musician with a Master's in Music Performance in percussion. By the grace of God, I've been moved along into a fun profession of Software Development. For the most, I've been a lone ranger and have had to learn everything on my own, which is fine since I enjoy problem solving. As I've matured ......

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Lately, my ASP.NET 2.0 app has been taking so long to build I have been going crazy. I came across this post at ScottGu's blog that had a possible cause for suddenly long build times. I have about 20 projects, but it's hardly a massive site. I had some problems that I just kind of put up with a while ago where an older version of Iesi.Collections.dll ......

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One of the things that requires a realignment in thinking when moving away from RAD development tools as a means of solving business problems into a Domain Driven approach is where to put validation and how to provide meaningful messages back to the user when something goes wrong. It seems to me that a good indicator of an anemic strategy for validating ......

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I guess I'm confused about the ObjectDataSource control. the SqlDataSource control is a non-issue for me since I'll *never* build an app that puts a view dependency on my database schema, but I see alot about the ObjectDataSource control in the Nhibernate forum. It's been a while since I actually wrangled with the ObjectDataSource control since I didn't ......

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Implementing the Model-View-Presenter has been fun. I appreciate it's tendency to enforce discipline in keeping any business decisions out of the View layer. I was always bewildered when I would read that the business logic should be separated from the 'code-behind' source and then see millions of DataSet examples where that was tons of business logic ......

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Sergio Bossa has a nifty proposition for handling Specification failures during the course of operations in the Domain layer and propogating those messages up the layers thru the Service layer at http://sbtourist.blogspot.c... The basic idea is to collect Specification errors into a collection within a ......

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I have an Aggregate called Person that has a method called AddAddress which accepts an IAddress invariant to (hopefully) be added to the Person.Addresses collection. Within the method body of AddAddress, I am invoking a Command object that goes down a list of Specifications and if all are passed, then the address is added to the collection. So far so ......

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While trying to tighten down access to invariants within an Aggregate, I'd like to make the exposed collections ReadOnly. Then I control the addition of child objects thru exposed methods, thus enforcing the Aggregate's role as gatekeeper for these objects. The problem is, I am mapping NHibernate to my fields which implement IList which, of course, ......

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I've been using the Colibri tool to open my apps and control panels for some time. A little summary of the tool is here with screenshots. Really, it's so simple there isn't much to say other than why you may want to consider it if you use Google Desktop instead of the silly QUickLaunch icons next to the "Start" menu. With a quick Ctl+Space (or whatever ......

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