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Solving the impendence mismatch between Hierarchical Data and XML

Ayende Rahien — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:38:21 GMT

I was very impressed when I saw how Subversion handles the complexity of having data of hierarchical nature that needs to be serialized to XML. Check this out.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<S:editor-report xmlns:S="svn:">
  <S:target-revision rev="11"/>
  <S:open-root rev="-1"/>
  <S:open-directory name="tags" rev="-1"/>
  <S:add-directory name="tags/asd"/>
  <S:close-directory/>
  <S:close-directory/>
  <S:close-directory/>
</S:editor-report>

And here is another one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<S:editor-report xmlns:S="svn:">
  <S:target-revision rev="15"/>
  <S:open-root rev="-1"/>
  <S:open-directory name="trunk" rev="-1"/>
  <S:open-file name="trunk/a.txt" rev="-1"/>
  <S:apply-textdelta checksum="eabc96676e7defda414a1eed33bdfb09">
    U1ZOAAAQEwETk2FzZDENCjINCjMNCjQNCjUNCjY=
  </S:apply-textdelta>
  <S:close-file checksum="c6301e5dad1330a7b9bd5491702c801b"/>
  <S:close-directory/>
  <S:close-directory/>
</S:editor-report>

I was, as they say incredibly happy with this Work Time Fun.

Extreme Patterns Video

Ayende Rahien — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:08:27 GMT

I was asked a few times about recording a course, so I think that a few people would be happy to know that Glenn Block has posted a discussions that we had about a month ago.

You can find it here

Hostile Code Review

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:56:52 GMT

Web development with training wheels?

Ayende Rahien — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:00:39 GMT

This quote has me floored:

Well, I'm an asp.net developer, not really a web developer. It is like web development with training wheels, only the training wheels are really heavy, uneven, and make riding the bike harder

Choices...

Ayende Rahien — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:13:58 GMT

IFooFactoryFactoryFactoryFactory vs. Factory<Factory<Factory<Factory<Factory<IFooFactory>>>>>

Discuss...

OSS Chat logs:

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:56:54 GMT

[friend] says: I think maybe we should at least provide something as simple as MR
[friend] says: sorry I mean RoR
Ayende Rahien says: I hereby grant you permission to do that
Ayende Rahien says: send us a patch

My Startup Idea: Rocket Launcher

Ayende Rahien — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:34:02 GMT

Taking advantage of a loophole in the export laws and some creative marketing, I am pretty sure that a startup to sell USB Nuclear Powered Rocket Launchers to petty tyrants is the next big thing.*

Wish me well, I now need to learn how to say I come in peace in Persian.

* This is a three level joke, if you don't get, don't worry, it is not intended to you.

Pattern madness

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:59:24 GMT

For the last few hours, I wrote:

Layout
Layout Decorator
Layout Registry
Layout Decorator Resolver

I am looking back at it right now, and I made a vow, Thou Shall Not Write an ILayoutDecoratorResolverFactory.

Does this send the right... message?

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:54:14 GMT

I am writing sample application:

The ALT.Net quote of the day

Ayende Rahien — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:08:55 GMT

You have to follow the discussion to understand that.

Bil Simser:

@Glenn: Someone posted a reply on my blog about the guidance package:
"I don't really like what they did there. Having views like IContactDetailView puts the model into the view which is exactly what you are trying to separate. IMO Views should be things like Grid, Spreadsheet, Detail, etc which can handle any domain object (Contact, Customer, etc)"

Ayende Rahien:

That is the Extremely Passive View.
It basically says that a view is the base control, and you need to handle that. A view IMO is the presentation required for a certain business scenario. IContactDetailView is a business scenario, and as such it is appropriate.

Dave Foley:

Coupling the Extremely Passive View with a very complex RowDataBound handler results in my favorite presentation pattern:
"Passive-Aggressive View"