http://www.wastedbandwidth.co.uk An external window onto an internal mess Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:04:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've recently been working on a fairly straight forward WCF Web-Service using Castle ActiveRecord, which uses NHibernate under the hood. So far, I've been really impressed with ActiveRecord as a well throught through abstraction of NHibernate's key features, which does a great job of keeping you focussed on the important stuff, ... http://www.wastedbandwidth.co.uk/index.php/6 Some great free tests available on Brainbench this month (April 2009): http://www.wastedbandwidth.co.uk/index.php/5 Casey @ Devlicio.us posted an interesting point the other day, discussing the lack of any real positive impact we software developers actually have on the world (other than lining already bulging blue-chip pockets), which led to an interesting discussion, which I've quoted here: Job Satisfaction, And Making The World A ... http://www.wastedbandwidth.co.uk/index.php/4 Looks like I'm starting again due to my WP database being the ONLY database I didn't add to the backup schedule. Doh! The punishment for my school boy error? I have to start all over again. :-( http://www.wastedbandwidth.co.uk/index.php/3