Ideas and Coffee at 3.47 AM

How do you plan your architecture when you are using entity framework? Do you write a data access layer? Or do you just go ahead and start writing queries on the object context. What happens if you want to use stored procedures? Why stored procedures you ask? well a no. of reasons. Some performance, others just a plain ol’ legacy database with existing stored procedures. But that’s a little out of context at the moment.

I have been thinking of owning a website of my own for a long time. First web space was expensive. Not universally, but at least for me. Always thought, is it worth it? How am I justify the annual cost no matter how little. And then of course my salary wasn’t that big then.

Never thought I would feel so helpless without a machine. I do have a machine at work, but can’t do much there. It is a work machine after all. Got addicted to the Lenovo T60, the Iron Box (we used to affectionately call it) so much, suddenly I miss it.

I got this error. I got no information on the internet as to how to get around it…

So you need to read the entire UML book in 20 minutes. What do you do? These are the excerpts from the Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual I was reading and thought I could summarize for a quick refresh.

Well I was running my test cases today and suddenly all my white spaces turned into dots. Yes it creeped the heck out of me.

This evening I heard someone say that Left Outer Joins are not possible in Entity Framework or perhaps Left Outer Joins are possible, but they bring in all the data and then filter out the right table.

Well I was asked this question once. “What is a singleton design pattern and why should I use it? Why not use a static class instead?”