Archive for the ‘ .NET ’ Category
Forgive the recent silence – I’ve been in my shed. Frequently, I need some variation on the Visitor or HierarchicalVisitor patterns to analyse or transform an object graph. Recent work on a query builder for an old-skool query API sent my thoughts once again to the Visitor pattern. I normally hand roll these frameworks based [ READ MORE ]
I recently posted a question on Stack Overflow on the feasibility of using IL rewriting frameworks to rectify bad design after the fact. The confines of the answer comment area were too small to give the subject proper treatment so I though a new blog post was in order. Here’s the original question: I’ve recently [ READ MORE ]
Perhaps the day has finally arrived when GNU/Linux seems like a viable option. Every six months or so I try out the latest GNU/Linux distros to see how they’re progressing. I look at them from the usual jaundiced perspective of the professional programmer. Not from the naive perspective of teenage rebellion. Normally I end up [ READ MORE ]
I’ve recently been using PostSharp 1.5 (Laos) to implement various features such as logging, tracing, API performance counter recording, and repeatability on the softphone app I’ve been developing. Previously, we’d been either using hand-rolled code generation systems to augment the APIs with IDisposable-style wrappers, or hand coded the wrappers within the implementation code. The problem [ READ MORE ]
After years of recoiling at the sight of code like this, am I supposed now to embrace it in a spirit of reconciliation? namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { dynamic blah = GetTheBlah(); Console.WriteLine(blah); } private static dynamic GetTheBlah() { if (DateTime.Now.Millisecond % 3 == 0) return 0; else return [ READ MORE ]
John Mueller recently sent through a link to a series of articles on working with RDF. As well as being a useful introduction to working with RDF, they use LinqToRdf for code examples. Modeling your Data with RDF (Part 1) Understanding and Using Resource Description Framework Files (Part 2) They provide information on hosting RDF [ READ MORE ]
Kingsley Idehen has again graciously given LinqToRdf some much needed link-love. He mentioned it in a post that was primarily concerned with the issues of mapping between the ontology, relational and object domains. His assertion is that LinqtoRdf, being an offshoot of an ORM related initiative, is reversing the natural order of mappings. He believes [ READ MORE ]
The semantic web is a GOOD THING by definition – anything that enables us to create smarter software without also having to create Byzantine application software must be a step in the right direction. The problem is – many people have trouble translating the generic term “smarter” into a concrete idea of what they would [ READ MORE ]
 LinqToRdf* is a full-featured LINQ** query provider for .NET written in C#. It provides developers with an intuitive way to make queries on semantic web databases. The project has been going for over a year and it’s starting to be noticed by semantic web early adopters and semantic web product vendors***. LINQ provides a standardised [ READ MORE ]
I’m very pleased to announce the release of version 0.8 of LinqToRdf. This release is significant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because it provides a preview release of RdfMetal and secondly because it is the first release containing changes contributed by someone other than yours truly. The changes in this instance being provided by [ READ MORE ]
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