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A company I have been contracting for decided to use AccuRev as its source control solution. I’ve not liked it from the start because it is too much work, the terminology in it is quite frankly stupid, and it is far too “chatty” when you work remotely.  Anyway, for some time now I have suspected …
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My copy of this book has just turned up. I am book hungry these days, can’t wait to read it 🙂

I’ve just finished reading What every programmer should know about object oriented design. The first couple of sections are a bit useless really, but the 3rd section is very good. I particularly liked the section on the difference types of connascence in software. There’s some basic information about it here if you fancy a brief …
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http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/index.html It was only $0.41 used in the USA, came to about £6 with posting to the UK. I don’t write Java and at the moment have no interest in learning it, but I expect I will be able to read it without problems (never really looked at it). So why did I buy this …
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Just found out that I can do this too public invariants  Overdraft >= 0 : ’OverdraftGreaterThanOrEqualToZero’;  Balance + Overdraft >= 0 : ’BalancePlusOverDraftGreaterThanOrEqualToZero’;end; Then in my handler routine I get that message! if not IsValid then  throw new Exception(ErrorMessage); Excellent 🙂

I’ve been looking at Prism some more recently. I’m a bit annoyed with myself really because someone has been telling me to look at it for years but I wanted to concentrate on C#. Now that I am looking at it I see things in there which I really like. Recently I am looking at …
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In my previous post I showed an interface ILockable. The actual interface is public interface ILockable{  Guid GetLockID();  Type GetLockObjectType();} Any lockable resource implements this interface. In its constructor it creates an instance of a class which descends from LockObject, a Document class for example would create an instance of DocumentLockObject which descends from LockObject. The "Document" …
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This might seem like a bit of an odd requirement. I am currently implementing an offline pessimistic locking service in an ECO app. This will mean that I can use a LockingService to place read/write locks on objects. As usual I have gone for an interface approach (ILockable) rather than making all my lockable classes …
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Drop a DefaultORMappingBuilder component next to your persistence mapper. Point PersistenceMapperxxxxx1.NewMappingProvider and RuntimeMappingProvider to point to this new component. On your PersistenceMapper component expand SqlDatabaseConfig and click the […] next to KeyMappers, ensure that you have an item named “GuidMapper” with the MapperTypeName set to “Eco.Persistence.GuidKeyMapper”. If not then add it. On your DefaultORMapperBuilder set …
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I’ve played a little more with Prism. I find it a little difficult to mentally code on two levels. Level one being the code I am writing for the aspect, and level two being the code I am writing which will executed by the target. Having said that, as soon as I ran my app …
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