Just a little post to let you know that I released the first Alpha of the next generation of the Cuyahoga CMS yesterday. For the people who don’t know Cuyahoga: it’s a .NET CMS that uses lots of Open Source components like NHibernate, Castle Windsor and Lucene.NET. Although not as polished as Umbraco or Dotnetnuke, [...]
Categories: Cuyahoga
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Castle, CMS, Cuyahoga, NHibernate
About a year ago, a few people (called by some as ‘The NHibernate Mafia’) wrote a vote of no confidence against the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF), mainly because a big influential company like Microsoft was releasing an inferior tool set. See the text of the petition for the detailed reasoning. My initial thoughts were [...]
Categories: O/R mapping
Tagged: Entity Framework, Microsoft, NHibernate
Many web hosting companies only allow ASP.NET applications to run under medium trust. This has been a major drawback for Cuyahoga because it required full trust (or better: some libraries require full trust). This has already caused some nasty surprises when people deployed their site to the host to find out it would not run. [...]
Tagged: Castle, Cuyahoga, Lucene.Net, Medium Trust, NHibernate
Recently, I ran into an issue with NHibernate Criteria queries. The scenario is the following: User has a many-many association with Role and Role has a many-many association with Site. I simply wanted all users that belong to a given site (and a whole slew of other optional parameters, therefore the Criteria query). With hql [...]
Categories: O/R mapping
Tagged: NHibernate