IDEA#.NET Carlos Perez still doesn't get it: Okay, I don't want to be controversial, however after reading the latest blog from the CTO of JetBrains, I just got to sound off! For the uninitiated JetBrains is the developer of the kick-ass Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA. It appears that JetBrains has a plan to develop, god forbid, a addin for VS.NET! See,... (305 words, 17 Comments)
On Object/Relational Mapping Tools Object/Relational mapping tools sound wonderful in theory. You get a type-safe object-view to your database, there's no more need to do any kind of manual SQL coding, database changes typically only need changes in one place in your code-base, sometimes the O/R tool performs a certain level of caching for you, etc. etc. Unfortunately in practice things aren't always quite... (495 words, 5 Comments)