Author Archives: Rob Jones

Supporting multiple databases using the Unit of Work and Repository patterns

By | December 13, 2011

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, [...]

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Dragonborn

By | November 22, 2011

Skyrim

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 [...]

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Featured posts!

By | November 16, 2011

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 [...]

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Finding a new identity

By | November 14, 2011

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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 [...]

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Rediscovering Telerik

By | August 22, 2011

Telerik

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 [...]

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