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NHibernate presentations at DNUG Bern

NHibernate presentations at DNUG Bern

I hold in August two presentations at the .Net User Group Bern together with René Leupold.  In both presentations the topic was object relational mapping in the .Net world. So we showed Microsoft Entity Framework 4.0 and NHibernate. My part was NHibernate and Rene showed EF. In the first presentation which was on 16th August 2010, we presented the following stuff: Introduction into ORM Theory (ORM impedance mismatch, persistence ignorance and ORM isn’t a silver bullet) Approaches how to map…

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Subversion daemon Init script

Subversion daemon Init script

Unfortunately I didn’t find a simple good daemon Init script for a debian Linux server where I want to start the subversion server svnserve automatically on start-up. So after a little bit searching on the internet and adapting the found resources (here or here), I got my Init script svnserve under /etc/init.d: #!/bin/sh # # start/stop subversion daemon. EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/svnserve # Test exist:ence of the executable test -f $EXECUTABLE || exit 0 # Command line options for starting the service OPTIONS=’-d…

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First developer meeting in Bern

First developer meeting in Bern

Today at the Fachhochschule happened the first developer meeting in Bern. The first tasks were the presentation of each participant and to collect the interests to discuss. After that Florian Kammermann presented his thoughts about software development. He’s highly interested in business oriented software developing. That means for him, that you have to be agile and follow the principles like DRY, separation of concerns, etc. At the end of his presentation he showed his favoured design patterns strategy pattern and…

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WordPress and SyntaxHighlighter

WordPress and SyntaxHighlighter

I often post code in my blog posts, so the SyntaxHighlighter by is very useful. But there are several plug-ins for WordPress, the question is which one is the most comfortable and has the most configuration options: Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress Syntax Highlighter and Code Colorizer for WordPress SyntaxHighlighter Evolved SyntaxHighlighter2 Offline blogging tool support When I post technical blog posts with code in it, then I prefer the way over an offline blogging tool. Currently I use for…

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Useful Firefox Add-ons

Useful Firefox Add-ons

After several years of using Firefox, I’ve got my favourites under the available Add-ons for my preferred Browser Firefox: Tabs Tab Mix Plus Links Delicious Bookmarks Language Dictionary Switcher ImTranslator Downloads Download Statusbar FireFTP Development HttpFox Web Developer I try to keep the number of the installed Add-ons small to avoid an “Add-ons-hell”. Are there any other indispensable useful Add-ons for Firefox?