Awesome Northwind
Whenever I give a talk at a meetup or teach at a course or just want to try a demo about a data driven technology, my biggest problem (and the biggest nag) is always to…
Updating the LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver - again
A while back I have received an issue in the Github repo of my LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver. After fixing that issue, the same individual also suggested a new feature. After fixing the bug, I…
Updating the LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver
A while back I've created a data context driver for LinqPad so you can connect to your Azure CosmosDB databases as well. I'm very happy to see that it has caught on and a lot…
Repository and unit of work ARE useful
The repository and unit of work design patterns are useful. This is a statement that I can get behind in any debate when this topic comes up. Don't worry, I'm not dogmatic, I have a…
Memento design pattern done (almost) right
I regularly teach courses on basic object-oriented design patterns. Over the years I have come to realize that not every pattern is equally useful or equally well-thought out. One of the most common examples of…