http://blog.codehangover.com Go ahead, have another Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Problem You need to differentiate between build numbers. For example, you've just redeployed your application and need to ensure that the new version is what you are viewing. Or, you need to keep track of how many times you build. There could be many reasons why you want to know the ... http://blog.codehangover.com/track-every-build-number-with-maven/ Summary This is a high level summary of the basic .Net API’s for interacting with a database. This includes a short description of each and how they relate to each other. As a developer with mainly a Java and PHP background I was unclear about how ADO.Net related to ... http://blog.codehangover.com/net-data-provider-overview/ The early bird registration is about to end for the Strange Loop 2010 conference. This is the second year of the conference. The first year was awesome, hopefully they can only make it better. Go to the site to see the speaker list, because it's too long to list ... http://blog.codehangover.com/strange-loop-2010-early-bird-registration/ Book on Amazon Finally someone has written an in depth beginners book for nhibernate.  Nhibernate 2.0 Beginners Guide written by Aaron Cure is just that and more.  Wow do I sound like a car salesman.  I was a little disappointed when I read Nhibernate In Action last year, because it was ... http://blog.codehangover.com/book-review-nhibernate-2-beginners-guide/ There's an underused feature of Hibernate that I've been using recently called "auxiliary database objects". With these guys, you can finally let Hibernate manage all of your schema creation and deletion. No more using Hibernate to generate mapped tables and then coming behind with another tool to finish the job. A ... http://blog.codehangover.com/536/ I wrote this for consideration for the upcoming 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book. Alas, I didn't submit it before the deadline. I'm OK with that that because I had another submission that I think has a good chance to make it in the book. I particularly like to apply this phrase in every-day ... http://blog.codehangover.com/if-you-want-to-have-cities-youve-got-to-build-roads/ Book on Amazon Outliers "The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell is a popular book. I heard about the book in a freelance discussion group at a developer conference. I quickly ordered a used copy from Amazon. It's popularity became very apparent when multiple people, that saw me ... http://blog.codehangover.com/outliers-a-non-technical-book-every-freelancerdeveloper-should-read/ I was looking for a good prototyping tool the other day and I came across ForeUI. This little gem packs quite a punch. Whether you want to create mockups of a desktop application or a web application, ForeUI has everything you need. A six minute demo of the application is ... http://blog.codehangover.com/foreui-review/ My notes and thoughts about day two of strange loop 2009. Also be sure to check out my Day one notes. jQuery - Matt Taylor http://weblog.dangertree.net/ Showed numerous examples how easy jQuery makes it to select and edit HTML elements. Made me realize I should use jQuery even in small apps. Also showed examples of ... http://blog.codehangover.com/strange-loop-2009-day-2/ A new developer conference has started in St Louis this year named Strange Loop. Normally I don't go to developer conferences because they are either in a different country or on the coasts. This one was close by in St Louis, MO. And from the quality of ... http://blog.codehangover.com/strange-loop-2009-day-1/