Dino Esposito's WebLogSolid Architecture for Quality ASP.NET AJAXThe "Driving Force" pattern--part 1 of N- April 21, 2008 Recession is perhaps affecting the economy, but it couldn't be farther from the dazzling world of (Microsoft) software. CTPs are coming out every day and some of them are amazingly morphing into Betas. Which is anyway good. But when a technology turns of age becoming a Beta, you--the developerarchitectsoftware engineer--are no longer authorized to ignore it with the abused excuse that it is only a CTP. You can easily be flooded with technologies, frameworks, products, and also patterns and...http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/04/21/the-quot-driving-force-quot-pattern-part-... Looks, walks, and quacks like a ORM- April 21, 2008 OK, it's not a problem to admit that I have no copyright on it, but I just love to use it. It looks like a ORM, it walks like a ORM, it quacks like a ORM. Hence, it's ORM... What am I talking about Just, guess what, LINQ-to-SQL. It's not a full ORM like NHibernate, Genome, or others. Oh sure, not like EF too :) But it looks like that. And if you're open-minded enough, it also may walk and quack like a ORM. If this is an acceptable statement for you--it mostly depends on what your...http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2008/04/21/looks-walks-and-quacks-like-a-o-rm.aspx |