Archive for May, 2008
I’ll start out with an apology – it was only by writing this post, that I worked out how to write a shorter post on the same topic. Sometime I’ll follow this up with something less full of digressions, explorations or justifications. The topic of the post started out as ‘Closure‘. It then became ‘Closure plus [ READ MORE ]
Software svengali Alec Clews has recently delineated a methodology that brings together the best of both the Agile and Waterfall worlds into a single edible package that will keep us in work for years to come. The methodological guru said “BDALAP recognises that certain design decisions are a) complex and b) have far reaching implications“. [ READ MORE ]
I’m proud to say that I’ve finally uploaded version 0.7 of LinqToRdf. This is by far the best release of LinqToRdf (so far), and it now contains full support for relationship navigation out of the box. Relationship support has always been possible (provided you were intimately familiar with various undocumented parts of LINQ:), but with [ READ MORE ]
Prompted by Mitch Denny who was in turn prompted by Paul Stovell, I am also exercising my Smart Art prowess in the name of proclaiming what I love, declaiming what I respect, and mentioning what I’d rather sweep under the carpet. I’ve always found the world of software development, like much else in life and [ READ MORE ]
Recently, Søren Skovsbøll wrote a excellent follow up to a little post I did a while back on using C# 3.0 expression trees for representing predicates in design by contract. The conclusion of that series was that C# was inadequate in lots of ways to the task of doing design by contract. Having said that, you [ READ MORE ]
I’ve just uploaded LinqToRdf v0.6 with improved designer support for Visual Studio .NET 2008. The release includes the following high-points: LinqToRdf Designer and VS.NET 2008 extension completely rewritten LinqToRdf Installer now includes the installer of LinqToRdf Designer (at no extra cost) Project and Item templates now installed as part of LinqToRdf Designer Generated object and [ READ MORE ]
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