Fixing NHibernate and visual studio 2008 problems.

For several days I was trying so hard to get up and running with NHibernate and Firebird on Visual Studio 2008. But, I wasn't very successful. I was always getting an error "could not load assembly system.data.entity" when I try to run my NHibernate application. I googled for so many hours and finally I came across an article that would solve my problem. I immediately downloaded and installed the .net 3.5 sp1 and its updates. After that I was able to finally run my app without any problems.

At last, I can continue with my exploration of NHibernate.

Code hard!
Peace!
Happy New Year!!!

Castle Activerecord and Firebird DB

After a few jumps and hoops I've finally starting to get the hang of using castle AR. After a few days of learning AR I slowly refactored my current project and immediately I can see the difference. I was going much faster now than before where I was doing everything using pure ADO.net. It was such a pain trying to crash your way through ADO.net. Currently, I'm using version RC 1.03 and I'm happy with it. With the release ActiveRecord 2.0 I just can't wait to use it on my future projects because it has better features.

I've also restructured my application into a layered architecture(3 tier) which is good because it made my development much faster.

Keep coding!
Peace!

First run at using castle activerecord and embedded firebird

After a fews of reading and trying to successfully run castle AR with embedded firebird I finally did it. I am yet to get to know more of castle AR in the next few nights. I plan on using it for my project which is currently running on all ADO.net(datatables,datasets, stuff like that).

Reading Object Oriented Analysis & Design from Head First

I'm reading Head First's Object Oriented Design & Analysis ebook. So far, the book has given me quite a few enlightenments on good OO design.

Hopefully, I'll be able to apply what I've read from the book in my future projects.

My new monodevelop on my ubuntu

Last saturday I finally installed monodevelop on my ubuntu machine. I'm planning to slowly move to linux and eventually live my life on linux for the rest of my life.

Peace!