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A couple of days ago, I blogged about Derrick taking over the Mean Fiddler demo to turn it into a real framework. I'm please to announce that the project is up at Source Forge. Derrick writes; ''For all those interested, the SourceForge project is online and I checked in the source tree.  I haven't produced any documentation nor an ...

A couple of months back I wrote a small demo showing how core features of Microsoft's Astoria could be replicated using NHibernate. I only wrote the demo to take on Andres Aguiar's challenge on how long it would take to build Astoria after Ayende did his Bumbler demo. As always, the code was licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, so anyone ...

In my Mean Fiddler post I wrote that the service doesn't support all of the features of the Astoria framework. Many of these, such as ordering, skips and tops aren't there because I've been lazy. The service uses NHibernate's criteria API for perform queries, so it is straight forward to add OrderBy, Skip and Top criterions to the criteria query. ...

Some days ago Ayende wrote Bumbler, a Microsoft Jasper clone, in two hours. In a comment to the post Andres Aguiar asked how long it would take to do a Microsoft Astoria clone as well. Ayende declined to do this, so we were left with the big question; ''How long will it take?''Today I decided to sit down and write a service similar to Astoria ...