One of the challenges in rewriting my online baseball game is dealing with enormous amounts of data that needs to be stored as aggregates, and coming up with a domain model and data mapping pattern that works. In this blog post, I’ll outline how I addressed some of those issues.
The Data Model
Baseball is very much [...]
Brant Estes of Magenic Technologies has just posted a very nice online quiz for .Net programmers. The test is there to pre-screen potential candidates to work at Magenic, but it’s also a very nice test for any .Net programmer to take (or to give to any .Net programmer you have considered hiring).
I took the test [...]
How many times have you had to parse through a collection of objects, outputting nothing more than a comma-delimited list of items in the result set. Typically, you’ll do this:
<asp :repeater runat="server">
<itemtemplate>Eval("Name")</itemtemplate>
<separatortemplate>, </separatortemplate>
</asp>
If you were parsing a list of states, it might look like this:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas
There’s an easier way to handle these simple [...]
A recent post on the WilsonORWrapper Google group talked about making WORW multi-database aware by removing static classes and singletons. Well, I’ve kind of been thinking of something similar lately…
For some time I have been toying with the idea of rewriting WORW to support a generic repository service that would work with any O/R mapper, [...]
In an update to WilsonORWrapper, I added a method which takes two objects of the same type and compares the properties of each, returning a value reflecting the results of the comparison. Any value other than zero would indicate that at least one property on the objects are not equal.
This method may have interest to [...]
