You might have read my previous entries about the Unit of Work and Repository design patterns. If not, you might want to check them out before reading the rest of this article.
- Unit of Work & Repository support for multiple frameworks
- Letting your Unit of Work & Repositories support multiple frameworks
A little while ago, I had to redesign the Unit of Work and Repository structure in a project at work. Naturally, I was quite happy to do so, as I have done a lot of research and development work on this topic already.
Every gamer must have heard about Skyrim by now. Is it really as good as everyone says? I’ve been playing it for a little while now and, in my opinion, YES! It’s absolutely amazing… however, it has plenty of little annoyances.
Everywhere on the web you’ll be able to read about all the fantastic parts of Skyrim, so I’ll be focusing on not so nice parts of this game.
The interface is not intuitive at all. I’ve read that it’s slightly better on consoles, though not by much. It looks extremely elegant and clean, but it takes a lot of getting used to. The mouse cannot be used in most menus and everything will need to be done by keyboard. Which isn’t all that bad though… once I got the hang of the flow through the menus it works alright, but it’s a long and bumpy road to actually understand it.
I finally found my way through the many plugins available to create sweet looking featured posts sections. After a lot of searching and tweaking I finally found one that, admittedly, after some customization of both theme and plugin files, works just as I originally had in mind! Awesome!
From today the front page of the website has a little rotating banner showing posts that I think are important for my audience. Or generally posts that required a lot of work and research and simply deserve to be in the spotlight!
Storm in a Jar has been going through a bit of an identity crisis recently. It changed webhost twice in a very short time and it has been given a new look multiple times in the same period as well.
My shortcomings as a designer (that’s probably the reason why I’m a software engineer…) have been glaringly obvious to me. I had the hardest time ever to make the website appear as I had in mind. I wanted to modernize the layout and have a nice, clean look with clear typography. I think I succeeded quite well there, but it was a bumpy road to find my way through the jungle of WordPress themes!
I’ve recently switched to a new employer and only now I realize how much I loved working with the Telerik‘s product suite. I no longer have access to all the goodies Telerik offers. My previous two employers had licenses for either the Ultimate Collection for .NET or just the ASP.NET AJAX components. That’s roughly five to six years of developing in .NET, with Telerik components! Trust me, it’s rather unpleasant having to revert back to default controls!
From this point of view I looked at Telerik again. What can they still offer me at this point, since I can’t afford to buy any licenses. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised! I knew they had some free tools, but I never quite realized which. I already knew of JustDecompile and the ASP.NET MVC components. To my delight, I discovered a free version of OpenAccess ORM! I will admit that this severely limits the toolbox that I got used to, but it’s still a pretty awesome toolbox to use.
