Development With A Dot

I have previously talked about Visual NHibernate. It has grown since last time, now offering support for multiple databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird), generates projects from existing databases or from existing Visual Studio projects and produces XML or Fluent mappings, to name just a few. To me it is by far the most interesting tools for working with NHibernate I know of (granted, I haven't tried NHibernate Profiler).

Felice Pollano is the author of a two great new tools for working with NHibernate:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recently published a paper on browsers being tracked by it's unique fingerprint. If you're curious to know what your favorite browser is doing to protect (or not) your privacy, check it here: https://panopticlick.eff.org

The NHibernate ISession, the core of NHibernate usage, has some methods which are quite misunderstood and underused, to name a few, Merge, Persist, Replicate and SaveOrUpdateCopy.

There's an hidden gem in SQL Server 2008: Change Data Capture (CDC). Using CDC we get full audit capabilities with absolutely no implementation code: we can see all changes made to a specific table, including the old and new values!