POCO Entities in ADO.NET 4.0 (Thursday, July 30, 2009) - One of the most anticipated features of the Entity Framework 4.0 is the ability to have POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) entities. This allows developers to produce domain objects free of any persistence baggage, with no requirements imposed inheritance-wise. Up till now entity objects were required to either inherit EntityObject or had to implement IEntityWithKey, IEntityWithChangeTracker
Using Entity Framework with Oracle (Tuesday, December 22, 2009) - I've long thought that the Entity Framework hasn't gotten a fair shake. Sure, there's some room for improvement but for an out-of-the-box ORM that ships with the framework it's not too bad. One thing has always troubled me, though. I was never sure what kind of traction it had with data sources other than SQL Server. Recently in a project circumstances conspired
ADO.Net Data Services with jQuery (Friday, May 29, 2009) - Lately I've been spending quite a bit of time messing around with ADO.Net Data Services. Thus far I'm pleased with it. Considering it sits nicely on top of EF models and I've been using EF for nearly all of my personal projects of late I've been able to glean a service layer with almost no work. If there's one thing I'm not passionate about, however, it's web interface
Tale of a Website, from Rails to ASP.NET to Django (Thursday, August 20, 2009) - I hesitate to call it complete yet but for the most part www.chrisumbel.com has been ported from ASP.Net to Django. Sure, there really isn't a lot to this site so no port would have been incredibly painful but I'm quite pleased with the effort level (or lack thereof) required to get it done. Aside from just this port it's been a long and interesting ride for
