April 2007 - Posts

Microsoft to support Ruby for the CLR?
30 April 07 05:02 AM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
Some time ago, Microsoft hired John Lam I have been looking forward to see Ruby becoming a member of the .NET family of languages. Today I stopped by the Silverlight web site and I read this: "Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform Read More...
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XML DSL for Java 1.5
25 April 07 09:22 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
Lately I've been playing around with embedded DSLs for Java. Regular readers might remember my little LINQ experiment from a while back . Java 1.5s support for static import is a great way to "extend" the Java language with new expressions, and I'll be Read More...
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NHibernate now supports the joined table pattern
23 April 07 05:36 PM | andersnoras | 4 Comments   
I have been asked on several occasions how one can map a single entity to more than one table. Hibernate has supported a the "joined table" pattern for some time, but this feature hasn't been part available in NHibernate. A while a go I wrote a post on Read More...
Breaking the myth of the nines
02 April 07 07:10 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
Royal Pingdom has posted statistics on the uptimes for the most popular websites in the US for the first quarter of 2007 . Apart from Yahoo! who has been up and running all the time, none of the sites on the list made the magic "five nines" mark. The Read More...
If it quacks like a quack...
02 April 07 02:37 AM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Spell checking code can lead to some really funny misspellings. In my previous post I had an interface named IDuckService which the spell checker suggested that I'd change to quackeries . Naïve spell checking of code with Microsoft Words dictionary doesn't Read More...
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WS-Duck for Windows Communication Foundation
01 April 07 10:38 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Last week I blogged about Arjen's WS-Duck Typing and how Spring-WS enables "duck typed" web services. Its apparent that I have been spending too much time with either Java or "older" .NET technologies, because Arjen was the one who pointed out that duck Read More...
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