A pleasant comment was left on my NHibernate Best Practices article concerning the utter uselessness of going with non-Microsoft technologies. It troubles me that after years of building a mature, open-source community in the Microsoft world, that this opinion still persists. This could be regarded as...

Needless to say, computer science is still in its infancy but has made incredible strides in just over half a century. During this time, it's striven to get the respect it deserves as a disciplined subject. Even just 14 years ago, when I started my undergrad in this subject, I recall reading articles...

As we progress as developers, we strive to seek out the "best" way to perform our craft. The chosen methods to attain this lofty goal always bring with them a number of developmental trade-offs. Some techniques may simplify the code but lessen fine grained control while others enable greater...