I’ve been having tremendous amount of problems lately using TortoiseSVN. Although server seemed to work fine, my SVN client had lots of problems, so I decided it was time to switch to Git. Continue reading
In previous post, we saw how easy it is to use J2EE as a rich backend. Let’s continue with our example and show how to fetch and send some data from our J2EE backend to a Silverlight rich client application. Let’s continue our work using a simple Blog domain model. Continue reading
Creating Line of Business applications using DevExpress WPF controls is just a breeze. The actual application is nice looking too! Since there are a couple of skins available and the good thing is the skin also changes the look and feel of standard WPF controls! Continue reading
When working on a Silverlight application that received data from a WebService I notice that loading of an array of 1500 items takes a lot of time. With this problem, application launch that has 3 separate webservice lookups, took almost 5 minutes to complete. Continue reading
If you have not heard, Silverlight is the latest rich client technology from Microsoft. The good thing about it is that it works almost on all browsers and operating systems and you can host your application on non-Microsoft stack too, but there are things such as database connectivity that you can’t benefit from when creating Silverlight applications. Continue reading
It’s been a while that I wanted to prepare a list of books that, in my opinion, every programmer should read. These are the most influential books I’ve read so far in my career. It is not supposed to be a complete list of any kind and this is just my idea of a must read. Books mentioned here may or may not be specific to a programming language, so check it before you buy the book. Continue reading
We’ve been doing a lot of Java / .NET interop for last couple of years in our enterprise applications. On one hand, our customers used their existing expertise and infrastructure that worked better with Java based technologies like their existing Unix based servers, Sybase database (on Unix) and the knowledge of their DBA team, and we using our existing Java developers and expertise. Continue reading
Back in May 2008, I did two posts on how to implement a composite application using Caliburn framework. By that time, Caliburn was still in pre-alpha stage. With lots of the changes along the way to reach Release Candidate, those content are not valid anymore, so I thought a new post to show how you can use Caliburn to build a WPF application is in order. Continue reading
Last post showed how to use a ObjectContext derivation to automatically generate audit information. Now instead of using a ObjectContext directly, a rather different approach, a pattern called Repository Pattern is used to encapsulate access to the entities. Continue reading
In last post showed how easy it was to use POCO classes in EntityFramework v4, a feature called “All Code”. This new feature, facilitates creating domain models but how about other features you may already have using other ORMs like NHibernate? Let’s see how we can achieve automatic audit logging in EF v4. Continue reading
