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NTimeline project – First release

NTimeline project – First release

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I currently started on codeplex.com an open source project. It was inspired by my last project. In this project I was a lead developer and software architect and the domain was about a social assurance. I was responsible about several developers and also for a product of the assurance-suite. This product was about retirements benefits in case the insurant died, retired or become invalid. The project was an success (finished in time, all requested features were implemented) and it is…

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NHibernate day in Bologna

NHibernate day in Bologna

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During a whole day several speakers spoke about NHibernate and related topics. This conference was in Bologna and was very well prepared and organized. You could watch the slides and the videos of the sessions here. I joined the following sessions: Keynote Simone Chiaretta opened the conference and showed during his keynote how the day is organized. But he couldn’t resist to make a little joke about us Swiss folk which isn’t part of the European union, so basically we…

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Tailoring Scrum

Tailoring Scrum

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During the last big project, duration more than a year, we used scrum. But it was a tailored scrum process. The reasons for the tailoring were: No scrum/agile experience in the company Small team (4 developers) Knowledge of tailoring RUP or Hermes First project with agile methods Normally I was the Scrum Master and mostly also the Product owner. The role of the Product owner should be fulfilled by the customer, but in our project, there were several customers with…

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ConfORM – Another NHibernate mapping possibility

ConfORM – Another NHibernate mapping possibility

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I recently hold two presentations at the .Net User Group Bern (DNUG) with René Leupold about object relational mapping in the .Net world. We showed Entity Framework 4.0 and NHibernate. My part was NHibernate. You could download the slides and samples from the DNUG website. In the two presentations I showed the mapping possibilities with hbm.xml files, attributes and Fluent NHibernate. In a previous blog post I already showed those possibilities. During the preparations I hadn’t time to try a…

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Branching practices

Branching practices

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In an environment where several developers work at the same code base or several features have to be implemented, then branching will be a topic. I was asked to create a branching guide for my current employer which use TFS as source code repository. Motivation In our projects I found the following problems: When the developers want to release a new version, not every feature was finished. So they had to deliver unfinished features. To solve that problem, they need…

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