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NDC 2010

NDC 2010 was a huge success, if you ask me. This was largely down to the NDC team, who deserve all the praise they're getting (and much more). Unlike conferences I've been to in the past, NDC was truely by the people, for the people. Scott Bellware put...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 7:04 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: fluent nhibernate, git, speaking, ndc
Git E-VAN recording

Last monday (8th of Feb) I did an E-VAN on Git ; an introductory talk on Git and DVCS, covering pretty much everything you need to know for day-to-day Git life. I think it went down well, certainly didn't hear anyone complaining. The talk was recorded...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 5:44 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: git, speaking
Git: Remotes, contributions, and the letter N

Here's a few ways to think about Git and it's distributed nature. You deal with multiples of repositories, not a single central repository Updates come from a remote repository, and changes are pushed to a remote; none of these repositories have to be...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 3:23 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: git, github
Behaviours in MSpec

MSpec is awesome, I think it's praised by myself and others enough for that particular point to not need any expansion; however, there is a particular feature I would like to highlight that hasn't really got a lot of press: behaviours. Behaviours define...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 1:42 PM by James Gregory

Filed under: bdd, mspec
Git guts: Merging and rebasing

Here we go again, explaining the internals of Git with the intention of helping you understand what you're doing day-to-day. Last time I covered branches, HEAD, and fast-forwarding . Today we'll dive into the guts of merging and rebasing. Merging branches...

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 6:54 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: git
Git's guts: Branches, HEAD, and fast-forwards

Lets get some learning done. There are a few questions that keep cropping up when I introduce people to Git, so I thought I'd post some answers as a mini-series of blog posts. I'll cover some fundamentals, while trying not to retread too much ground that...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 1:11 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: git
Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM

It's here . For those of you that don't know, Fluent NHibernate is for helping you map entities with NHibernate . It's based firmly on the practice of convention-over-configuration , and can be used in a mapping-per-class style using our fluent interface...

Published Fri, Aug 28 2009 2:19 PM by James Gregory

Filed under: fluent nhibernate
Preventing debugger property evaluation for side-effect laden properties

Property getters with side-effects, now there's a controversial subject if ever I saw one. Don't do it is the rule; as with any rule though, there's generally an exception that proves it. If you're in this situation and you genuinely do have a scenario...

Published Tue, Aug 18 2009 1:15 PM by James Gregory

Filed under: debugger, fluent interface
Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC

It's nearly here, at long last Fluent NHibernate has nearly reached 1.0. Now starts the official public testing of our 1.0RC. You can read the release notes on the wiki for more information on what's changed. There have been a lot of small breaking changes...

Published Sun, Aug 16 2009 5:23 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: fluent nhibernate
Git and command-line fear

Git has been gaining a lot of traction lately, and rightly so. I've used it for a couple of years now, for all my projects ( Fluent NHibernate and Docu being the prominent ones), but something that hasn't changed is the tag-line of "but Windows support...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2009 5:10 PM by James Gregory

Filed under: altnet, git
Entity interface anti-pattern

This has been discussed many times before on various mailing lists, and I'm sure there are blog posts about it that are eluding me currently, but I'll put it out there anyway. Interfaces on entities are an anti-pattern (when they're in the...

Published Sat, May 09 2009 3:35 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: things we all already knew, orm, design
What's been happening in Fluent NHibernate land?

Fluent NHibernate has seen a flurry of development followed by a complete lack of commits, I figure it's time to let everyone know what's going on. The Short Version We're rewriting the internals. We have 100% of tests passing, but still can't...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2009 1:34 AM by James Gregory

Filed under: nhibernate, fluent nhibernate, open source
My name's James Gregory and I'm new here

Hello everybody, My name is James Gregory and I'm the latest convert to Pabloism! I hail from the land of Kings and Queens, where dragons be and wenches are a-plenty. England that is, to the east in Yorkshire to be more precise . I've been a developer...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 9:33 PM by James Gregory

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NDC 2010

Git E-VAN recording

Git: Remotes, contributions, and the letter N

Behaviours in MSpec

Git guts: Merging and rebasing

Git's guts: Branches, HEAD, and fast-forwards

Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM

Preventing debugger property evaluation for side-effect laden properties

Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC

Git and command-line fear

Entity interface anti-pattern

What's been happening in Fluent NHibernate land?

My name's James Gregory and I'm new here