Sorry I missed a week there. There wasn’t a whole lot going on other than JIRA fixes.
ActiveRecord
Support for NHibernate’s Subselect Fetching Strategy [svn]:NHibernate supports the ability to load multiple collections in parallel. This can improve performance when loading related collections based on sub-select criteria. The Hibernate documentation has further explanation.
Validation Error Messages [svn]: Added support [...]
Another week with some exceptional new features.
MicroKernel
Synchronize Facility [svn]: New facility providing synchronization support for components by implicitly implementing ISynchronizeInvoke and SynchronizationContext. This provides some convenient help for dealing with UI updates in multi-threaded applications. Check out this article for more details on ISynchronizeInvoke.
MonoRail
JSON DataBinder Extension [svn]: Databinding support for binding serialized JSON objects to [...]
This interview with Alex Payne of Twitter is an interesting read. Question number 2 is the most striking:
“All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise. Once you hit a certain threshold of traffic, either you need to strip out all the costly [...]
In the past week, there’s been a significant amount of blog chatter around the lack of documentation for Castle. There is information out there, it just doesn’t have a central knowledgebase. That information resides in blog posts on committer sites or posts to the developer’s mailing list. In an effort to make this documentation more [...]
UPDATE: Eleutian has released the source for their code generator and it is now an official Castle Contrib project, so I have removed this one. You can access the sources here.
Last week I came across this post by Jacob at Eleutian. They discuss a process by which they parse their MonoRail controllers and views during [...]
Great programmers have an uncanny knack for overcomplicating things. In my career I’ve started countless hobby applications only to stop 30% in because I’ve gotten mired in nitty-gritty details and came down with a horrible case of frameworkitis. Part of the problem is that writing frameworks is challenging, fulfilling work. However, it often takes longer to [...]