Category Archives: misc

Central Texas GiveCamp needs volunteers

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

Next month, a few of us at Headspring are putting on the Central Texas GiveCamp. For the uninitiated, a GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where us as developers/coders/designers get together to put our skills to good use for non-profit organizations. … Continue reading →

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Domains available

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Chad Myers

In my effort to make myself an ex-GoDaddy customer, I have 3 domains left to transfer or let expire. Two of them I’m making available to transfer to anyone who wants them (rather than letting them expire so that you … Continue reading →

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Win Free Copies of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a Giveaway especially for you and three lucky winners stand a chance to win a copy of Keep reading to find out … Continue reading →

Also posted in book, Fluent NHibernate, NHibernate | 26 Comments

Ranting about the quality of developers

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

I am in the happy position that I work for a company who is steadily growing. As a consequence we were and are hiring new developers. I had and have the “pleasure” to be part of this hiring process. I … Continue reading →

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Most boring debates ever

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

As lived for us every day in Twitter, irc, newsgroups, blog comments, digg, reddit, over and over and over again: vi vs. emacs Microsoft vs. Linux Firefox vs. Chrome Firefox vs. IE Firefox vs. Opera Opera vs. wait, no one … Continue reading →

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Database indexes are your friend

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

I guess I assumed that creating a foreign key constraint would automatically create a non-clustered index.  I mean, a primary key is a clustered index, why wouldn’t a foreign key also create an index? A batch process today slowed from … Continue reading →

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My other blog, and dealing with enterprise software, customizations, and upgrades

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Chad Myers

I have a few blog posts queued up that relate to the product I’m working on for my day job.  The blog posts are generally product-specific and so (I feel) aren’t appropriate for posting on this (my Los Techies) blog … Continue reading →

Also posted in CQRS, Event sourcing, no-database | 14 Comments

OSS and the .NET Framework upgrade

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

I’ve hit a bit of a dilemma recently, I want to use features in C# 4.0 and .NET 4.0 to enhance AutoMapper, but this would eliminate the possibility of .NET 3.0 projects from being able to use the new version. … Continue reading →

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How to annoy your teammates

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

In 3 easy steps: Step 1: Perform a change that affects many, many files My favorite is a namespace rename.  Other choices include deleting a core marker interface, renaming a layer supertype class, or changing the folder structure in a … Continue reading →

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Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction Our clients install our product on different environments. Some of them have 32bit server OS others have pure 64bit environments. Due to the lack of a 64bit version of a driver we use we have to run certain tools … Continue reading →

Also posted in How To | 17 Comments