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Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action I spent some time lately to read the book “Entity Framework 4 in Action” which was written by several authors – Stefano Mostarda, Marco De Sanctis and Daniele Bochicchio. This book was sent to me by Manning Publications as part of the Manning Early Access Program ( MEAP ). What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is all about Entity Framework 4. The authors don’t assume that you are familiar with the technology and they take you to an Entity Framework...
Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running In the last two weeks I read the book “HTML5: Up and Running” that was written by Mark Pilgrim. Since I’m and always was a web guy I always like to read about the things to come and HTML5 is a specification that is heading our way very fast. What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is about HTML5 which is a specification that is being written in these days and will be the de facto standard in the next years. Since reading all the specifications would...
Book Review – Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Today I finished reading Robert C. Martin’s wonderful book - Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship . The book is all about writing quality code. It is full of examples of good and bad code and a lot of suggestions for how to write a better code base. Even so the examples were written in Java language I encourage .Net developers to read this book only to learn the concepts that are presented by the...
Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 A few months ago I bought a new mouse. I needed a mouse that could also act as a presenter tool in order to assist me in my presentations that I am delivering from time to time. So I talked to some people and asked for their recommendations. I also searched for details about presenter tools in the internet and in the end I found the Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 very suiting for my needs. The Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 is more then...
Don’t Repeat Yourself Today while I was doing code review I found myself writing a new generic function instead of one piece of code that was repeating itself in the developer’s code. When you write code sometimes you have to duplicate some piece of code. When it occurs, this is the best time to think of refactoring your functionality. A lot has been written about DRY principal this post is my opinion about it. The DRY Principal Don’t Repeat Yourself or DRY is a very good practice when we are writing...
Programming Entity Framework Book Review One of the books I read in the last weeks was Julia Lerman ’s Programming Entity Framework book. Review Julia Lerman ’s book is currently the best choice if you want to learn Entity Framework . The book is very thorough and even though it is very long to my taste (about 800 pages) it is written very good. The book covers almost every aspect in Entity Framework and also suggests some solutions to problems that V1 has like for example an approach to N-Tier applications...
Pro ADO.NET Data Services Book Review Lately I’ve been reading a lot. One of the books that I read is Pro ADO.NET Data Services - Working with RESTful Data from Apress which I’ll review in this post. Review The book isn’t long, its about 300 pages and has four major parts: ADO.NET Data Service Fundamentals ADO.NET Data Services in the Real World ADO.NET Data Services from the Outside The Future of ADO.NET Data Services The first part is written well and it gives a very thorough understanding about...