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• What are the Alt.Net principles? - my answer

  I'll be attending the AltNetConf . Convenient for me that it's in Austin, TX. It's an open space conference, and I consider it the founding conference of a conversation that is "Alt.Net". I'll be proposing the topic: What are... Posted Sep 23 2007, 11:49 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Build Automation, Coding Principles, Data Access, Developer Community, Featured, Learning, Tips & Tricks, Tools

• NHibernate: ICriteria may cause update - know about AutoFlush mode - level 300

  This topic is for those already using NHibernate. By looking at the forum, that is a whole load of people! As always, my blog posts stem from experience, and this is no different. It's been a year since I first tried out NHibernate, and since then... Posted Oct 23 2006, 06:07 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Learning, Tips & Tricks, Data Access

• Use guid.comb in your database if you need guid keys but don't want to take a big performance hit - level 300

  Once again, I'm behind the times. COMB Guids have been around since 2002, and I'm just now finding out about them. In short, WinNT used to use the MAC address of a network card to help generate GUIDs, and they were pseudo-sorted. Since then, Guid have... Posted Aug 19 2006, 07:09 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Data Access, Tips & Tricks

• Using enum strings with NHibernate persistence - level 400

  One of the things that is not very obvious when using NHibernate is how to using Enumerations. If you merely map an enum with the hbm.xml, NHibernate will persist that class member as an int, which is the underlying type of an Enum value type. Even if... Posted Mar 14 2006, 09:00 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Coding Principles, Data Access

• Oracle-style joins in Sql server. There is no performance difference - level 300

  I recently came across some sql code that caught me off guard. Here is is: select something from table1, table2 where table1.id = table2.id I immediately thought that a Cartesian product was happening and the rows were being filtered afterward. All my... Posted Mar 02 2006, 07:47 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Data Access

• Ron Jacobs discusses NHibernate on the MS Patterns and Practices Arcast - level 200

  The lates Arcast from Ron Jacobs is about NHibernate , and open-source Object-Relational mapping tool. This podcast was particularly interesting to me because my team is using NHibernate for a project, and we are likely to use it for most data access... Posted Feb 24 2006, 04:42 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Data Access