Approval Testing
Approval Testing is one of my newest discoveries. It is amazingly helpful and I wonder why it’s not more known and used. Image that you have a complex functionality which…
Read moreVisualVM
VisualVM is an awesome tool! It is one of the best tools shipped with the JDK. I’m always astonished when people do know nothing about it. Here’s a short tour…
Read moreRavenDB: Bundles, Cascade Deletion, Document Versioning
Today we take a look at how we can install additional functionality to RavenDB with bundles. Then we take a brief look at the cascading delete and versioning bundles. Bundles…
Read moreUpdates for db4o LINQPad Driver
I’ve updated my LINQPad driver for db4o (Here’s an feature-overview). Besides tons of little bugfixes there are also two major scenarios which are now supported: Read Support for Enums supported…
Read moreRavenDB: Attachments (or Blobs)
Today we’re looking at attachments in RavenDB. Attachments allow you to store binary data along your documents. So attachments are basically BLOBs in RavenDB. Storing Binary Data in Documents For…
Read moreTalks and Stuff: Carmack Keynote, Approval Tests, Pausless GC, History
Hmm, I ‘m not in the mood for writing anything technical right know. Instead I just share some interesting links to talks, blog-posts and podcasts. Here we go: QuakeCon 2011…
Read moreRavenDB: Embedded Mode
Let’s take a look at more ‘optional’ and supporting features of db4o. One of these is that you can run RavenDB in embedded mode. I personally like embed the database…
Read moreRavenDB: Preventing Database Slaughter
After we’ve covered the basics, documents and queries, we take a short look at another ‘feature’ of RavenDB. Have you ever had this issue: You’ve developed nice application which runs…
Read moreRavenDB: Queries and Indexes
So far we’ve covered the very basics and the document database nature of RavenDB. This time we take a look at the queries and indexes. I’ve already mentioned that RavenDB…
Read moreRavenDB: Documents, Nothing But Documents
Last time we’ve made the first steps with RavenDB. I’ve already mentioned that RavenDB is a document database (see also Wikipedia). However in our examples we just stored objects. So…
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