Kevin McKelvin

At the end of the last post I was deciding whether to use IoC to manage my new dependency on an IMusicStoreContext. I could have made a call…

I started looking at the controllers in the Music Store application and pretty quickly realised that before I could really do much there, I…

The time’s come to start swapping out EF4 for NHibernate 3 query code. I’ve chosen to tackle the ShoppingCart class first before heading to…

So my IMusicStoreContext is in place on all of the controllers now. I still need to actually write an implementation of IMusicStoreContext…

Ok so I’ve got the code up on Git, got the solution running in VS2008 again (I really need to get VS2010 some time…). First thing I’m going…

The best way I’ve found to learn about a new technology is to write about it, this forces me to think more as a teacher than as a student…

Ruby caught my attention quite some time ago. The expressiveness, stability, widespread adoption (and awesome community!) and the fact that…

In NHibernate 3, they’ve brought in the Loquacious API to eliminate some of the XML burdens of NHibernate. In most cases, the configuration…

Microsoft’s hosting their Devs4Devs event here in Johannesburg (Bryanston) again! 14 sessions of 20 minutes each from 9AM on – one of which…

So the cool kids over on the Ruby / RoR camp have had their Gems package manager for ages now. It’s a brilliant system of managing your…