I could not resist anymore and i’ve bought a mac. I’ve been contemplating with the idea of getting a laptop lately and the mac book air was always coming at the top of the search results.
Finally i could not delay it anymore and one morning i wake up, went to the apple store, paid 2000$ and got the all new shiny 13 inch Mac Book Air… read full article
I’ve pushed to github a new project, TestDataGenerator that should help with filling random objects with data. I felt the need for a tool like this when testing various serialization techniques and persistence strategies.
Basically this utility should construct the instance of an object using a public constructor, and fill all it’s public, writable properties with random data.
Sample usage:
class Sample
{… read full article
Just a quick hint for others like me, who spent some minutes searching for the EnsureDatabaseExists method when trying to use RavenDb with Multi-Databases. EnsureDatabaseExists is an extension method on IDatabaseCommands defined in the Raven.Client.Extensions namespace. To make it work you need to add a using statement for this namespace.… read full article
A few weeks ago i’ve started using Cassette, a very nice asset management tool for .net web applications. It will basically take your assets ( javascript, coffescript, css, images ) and do the right thing with them ( combine, minify etc).
While working with it i had a few issues which I’ve managed to solve and i would like to share them.… read full article
Today WordPress 3.2 was released, and this blog has been upgraded to the latest version. If you encounter any problems drop a message in the comments form bellow… read full article
I’ve added the Google Plus one service to this site. If you like and find useful the articles on this website please recommend it by using the +1 Button… read full article
I’ve written a cache provider for NHibernate which uses Membase as a cache engine.
You can find the souce code on github.
Example configuration can be found in the test project.… read full article
I’ve switched the comments to disquss. If you have any problems with the new commenting system please let me know… read full article
This post is an addition to .NET Serialization Choices post.
I’ve added to the SerializationTests Project the new serialization implementation in Raven.Json.
The Raven.Json Serializer is an extension to Newtonsoft Json.NET serializer and as expected the results are similar. Also the Pros & Cons are similar:
Optimized DOM for Newtonsoft Json.NET
Pro: JSON Based, human readable, platform… read full article
Serialization is not a trivial problem in any language. In .NET there are quite some choices available for serializing/deserializing objects. Each available option has it’s strengths and weaknesses.
I’ve started a project on git hub SerializationTests where i’m trying to determine what is supported by which library and draw a few conclusions that should be helpful when designing serializable objects and in general when dealing… read full article