July 2008 Entries

Note that I have posted two follow up discussions on this along with a number of code changes.  They can be found at: WCF and nHibernate redux A little more WCF NHibernate I know that there are a few blog posts out there on this subject, so I feel like I'm repeating myself while writing this.  Bear with me...please.  Over the last month I've been chasing an ISession corruption error in our application with little success.  During that time I spent a lot of time looking at our WCF implementation to ensure that it wasn't some piece of that which was causing the...

The majority of Canadians will be celebrating Canada Day and the creation of our country.  Lost on the majority of the population is that July 1st also marks a day of great sacrifice.  On this day in 1916 eight hundred and one of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment went over the top at Beaumont-Hamel.  The following following morning only sixty-nine answered the regimental roll call.  Since 1916 Newfoundland has born the weight of this sacrifice on their own.  Since 1949 it has been the responsibility of Canadians to remember these men as some of the great fathers of our country.  While...

For the last half a year a group of us (Bil, James, Dave, Terry, Justice, Greg and Kyle) have been organizing the first ALT.NET conference in Canada and today, on Canada Day no less, we are announcing the opening of registration to it.  The event will happen on August 15-17 in Calgary.  If you've not been to, or heard about, the ALT.NET conferences in Austin and Seattle, they have drawn many software development luminaries and created great conversations.  There are no predefined sessions like you would normally find at a conference.  The format follows the Open...