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 Solr in Django for Full-Text Searching via Solango (Friday, January 01, 2010) - I've been doing quite a bit of work with Solr lately, both at the office and at home and, by golly, I love it! It's very powerful and simple to integrate with regardless of your platform. In this post I'll explain how to use Solr as a data-store independent search provider for Django projects. I'll assume that you have a functional Solr install and generally understand
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
Stored Procedures in Django (Sunday, August 09, 2009) - Web development platforms like Django go a long way to removing the need for writing hand-crafted SQL with all of their ORM goodness. Sometimes, for some reason or another, it's handy to execute hand-crafted SQL code or even a stored procedure. Naturally that should be a last resort and I don't intend on starting a discussion about when it is and when is not appropriate,
