What Am I Working On?
I’m currently extending the dSail System-software. The idea is to provide real-time data about the air flow on a sailing boat. This information can help you tweaking the sail position…
Read moreThrowing Checked Exceptions Like Unchecked Exceptions in Java
Everyone who’s programming Java knows checked exceptions. You only can throw a checked exception when you’ve declare it. And you have to catch an checked exception, no matter whether…
Read moreThe Way of the Whiteboard, Modern Hardware, Writing DSLs with LINQ and Component Relationships
The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures: A enlightening and wonderful talk about explaining stuff with pictures. The advices in this talk do not only apply to every area.…
Read moredb4o: Tools For Adhoc Querying And Modification
Remember my very first post about db4o? There I’ve made the statement that the tool-support is very bad. Well I don’t revise my opinion here. The situation is still bad…
Read moreAutofac 2.x
A new version of favorite dependency-injection-container Autofac is making progress. It follows the same principals, brings some new features etc. However they also refactored the API, so it isn’t compatible…
Read moreMaven-Reference, Validation and Geek-Videos
I’ve stumbled over this Maven online book. It’s quite useful for everyone who’s maintaining Maven-builds. This post about “Magic” null argument testing describes how to implement an extremely elegant way…
Read moredb4o: Transparent-Persistence
It has been a while since I’ve wrote my last post about db4o. You may remember the post about the activation-mechanism. Don’t you think that this is quite painful? Activating…
Read moreA Better INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation
The INotifyPropertyChanged-interface and companions are a well know citizens of the .NET-framework. How do you implement this interfaces?. Does it look similar to this? public class Person : INotifyPropertyChanged {…
Read moredb4o: Client-Server and Concurrency
So far we’ve always used a single object container. This it the simplest way to used db4o. Just open an embedded database an use it. In this post I’ll give…
Read moreLINQ: cast-catch
In this post I’ll explain a little catch in LINQ, which may some beginners fall into: What’s the difference between those two queries? IEnumerable<Person> listOfEntities = LoadData(); // First version…
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