When you write your first Fluent NHibernate application with Mono/.NET based on the Getting started tutorial, you eventually discover that you require a few extra assembly-dll references not mentioned. For my Postgres (PostgreSQL) project my references are: I won’t go into the detail of the matter, other than to say that many of these don’t give […]

Over the past 2 years my career has taken some interesting turns. I moved to Cape Town, started at Intervate Cape Town as contractor, and then moved on to MiX Telematics as a permanent member. At the time I joined them, both organizations went through far reaching changes, literally to the point that should you […]

Spring.NET really has tons of handy features you can put to work in your application. One of them is its transaction management, that provides an implementation agnostic abstraction for your application. The first question you’re probably asking yourself is, why do you need to abstract away your transaction technology? The short answer is there are […]

Currently at Intervate Cape Town I am looking after our Subversion source control (in fact I am doing a small presentation to the team tomorrow). Anyways I am by no means a Subversion guru, I only know enough to live with it in harmony. However there are a few admin tasks I have to perform […]