When I first started using entity framework (one of the earlier versions) it was not ready yet (some serious performance issues). A few years later I hear good things about it from other developers. In order to try to get a feel for how the state of entity persistance is today I’ve ported an old nhibernate test project to a test project for entity framework. I initially had some trouble due to my choice of sql express to test the mappings. Once I managed to get EF to use sqlite the testing got much easi[...]

What do I mean when I say? System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline dpkg 1994 cpan, uploaded packages from 1995 jar 1996 debian release with apt 1999 perl package manager goes back to 1999 rubygems 2004 ruby bundler 2010, git history from 2010, ruby gem from 2009 npm 2010 nuget 2010 This is just a sampli[...]

What do I mean when I say? - System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system - Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline dpkg 1994 cpan, uploaded packages from 1995 jar 1996 debian release with apt 1999 perl package manager goes back to 1999 rubygems 2004 ruby bundler 2010, git history from 2010, ruby gem from 2009 npm 2010 nuget 2010 This is just a sampling [...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information to the user (so that they can inform you when you’re doing wrong) is to apply a general xml stylesheet. First part of the trick is to tell xml that you intend to output html: <xsl:output ... method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> Next step is to cr[...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information to the user (so that they can inform you when you’re doing wrong) is to apply a general xml stylesheet. First part of the trick is to tell xml that you intend to output html: <xsl:output ... method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> Next step is to c[...]