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When to use stored procedures

When to use stored procedures

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Recently I discussed with a colleague when to use stored procedures. As exptected it was quite a religious conversation. A few days later I found the following screencast: The Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures Based on the discussion and the screencast I tried to summarize my Pros and Cons: Pros Layering Low-level-Security Protect queries from changing data-access technologies (jdbc, hibernate, toplink, dbcommands, linq to sql, entity framework, nhibernate, etc…) Ivory-Tower-Feature: changing database during project does nearly never happen Coarse-grained…

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My ASP.NET MVC presentation at work

My ASP.NET MVC presentation at work

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Yesterday I gave my ASP.NET MVC presentation at an internal techtalk event (which I organized). At this event two colleges presented also jQuery and PowerShell, which were very interesting presentations. You could download my presentation (in german) with the sample application (the idea of a contactmanager is from the official mvc page). Presentation: ASP.NET MVC presentation Sample application: Contactmanager

Registered the domain alpha-geek.ch

Registered the domain alpha-geek.ch

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I read recently the article of martin fowler about alpha-geek again. Then I checked various links which contains the keyword alpha geek. I was surprised that the domain alpha-geek.ch was free, so I couldn’t resist to register it for me. Martin writes about alpha geeks: “Alpha geeks are typically experimenting with technology. In software development they are the people who first try new languages and frameworks. They are also inclined to build things to solve their problems if there isn’t…

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Techdays 2009 in Bern

Techdays 2009 in Bern

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I was last week at the Techdays 2009 in Bern. As expected there weren’t a lot of new or interesting things. The most interesting topics were Azure (Cloud computing) and the next VisualStudio 2010. I visited following sessions: ADO.NET Data Services – Creating RESTful Services Overview Visual Studio 10 and .NET 4.0 RAD for Business Application with the new Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services What brings C# 4.0? Deep Dive Entity Framework ASP.NET MVC Testing practices whit Visual Studio…

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ASP.NET MVC arrived

ASP.NET MVC arrived

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As you alreay read or heard Microsoft released the ASP.Net MVC 1.0. From my perspective it is a step in the right direction. MVC is not just a pattern, it is about software quality and professional software development: In my eyes a professional software developer is concerned that there exists a seperation of concern in his program code and he wants to deliver the best possible software to the customer what he can create. Both concerns are reachable with the…

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