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Svn 1Click Setup - did a very nice job from specifying environment locations and variable to configuring the server and service. Simplifies a lot the whole experience.

Something I have learned from JP Boodhoo lately (and NOT the only thing):

It is nice once in a while to get back to the course or training session you took and make sure that you haven't wasted your time for nothing. This is not about ego, this is about making sure that what ever you know today will be absolutely no enough tomorrow and constantly remind yourself this basic law of software development.

I was reading about NHibernate mapping of the properties that have no setter, and how it's done through the backing field (reflection I assume). The setting looks like this:

Pair programming is a proven technique for sharing knowledge among team members and teams. Benefits of that are felt after relatively a short period of time, boosting not just the productivity, but self-confidence of the developers (which is playing an important role even though is not admitted), and most of all, improving the maintainability of the code when it comes later. And it comes. It always comes.

Long time ago I had to deal with a case where the famous ViewState generated by WebForms was quiet heavy. This post is not going to wine about how bad ViewState is for the environment. This post is to show that even working with something big and nasty such as web forms, you still have to give a thought what are you trying to do and what is out there that can help you to accomplish the mission.

I try to lower expectations in order not to be disappointed, but in this case I was asked by several individuals to address the fact that IoC container power is in the ability to "hook" implementer with the contract through an external file, leaving application code unaware of the actual implementer till the run-time, having no reference to implementers' assembly or whatsoever. I am going to expand the sample from the part 1 post to achieve that goal in a couple of days.