Hibernating Rhinos

Hibernate Profiler New Feature: Parameters Values

Ayende Rahien — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:12:00 GMT

One of the annoying things about the Hibernate port of the profiler was that JDBC didn’t provide us with the parameters values.

Eric has just fixed and that is now live:

Enjoy…

Say hello to Uber Prof

Ayende Rahien — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT

I got several requests for this, so I am making Uber Prof itself available for purchasing.

What is Uber Prof?

It is a short hand way of saying: All the OR/M profilers that we make.

An Uber Prof license gives you the ability to use:

And it will automatically give you the ability to use any additional profilers that we will create. And yes, there is an upgrade path if you already purchased a single profiler license and would like to upgrade to Uber Prof.

Hibernating Rhinos #10 - Producing Production Quality Software

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:24:11 GMT

Don't get used to the deluge of the screen casts, I usually do them with months apart, not a mere day.

At any rate, this screen cast is another significant diversion from my usual style.

To start with, it is a zero code webcast, and it would probably would well as a podcast, although I think that the artwork and presentation is still important.

Anyway, this webcast is focused on several lessons learned from unsuccessful project, what are the kind of things that we should pay attention to, and how we can avoid them.

It runs just under 40 minutes, and it is pretty intense.

As I said, this is a new approach for me, and I would like to get your feedback on the matter.

You can download it at the bottom of this page: http://ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx

Hibernating Rhinos #9 - Application Architecture

Ayende Rahien — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:22:32 GMT

It has been a while since I last published a screen cast, but here is a new one.

This one is in a slightly different style. I decided to follow Rob Conery's method of using a lot of prepared code instead of my usual ad hoc programming.

Please let me know what you think about the different style.

This is a far more condensed episode, lasting just under half an hour, and it is focus primarily on the internal architecture of a real world application.

I tried to go over a lot of the concepts that seems to trip people up when they come to define the structure of the application.

The technical details:

~30 minutes
28.4 MB

You can download this from this address: http://ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx

Hibernating Rhinos on Amazon S3

Ayende Rahien — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:23:06 GMT

I finally got around to putting all of Hibernating Rhinos episodes on S3.

They are still using torrents, mind you, because I still don't like to pay a lot for bandwidth, but they should always be a seeders using this arrangement.

Setting up MonoRail Windsor Integration with Binsor

Ayende Rahien — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:17:17 GMT

I think I'll let it stand on its own:

facility Castle.MonoRail.WindsorExtension.MonoRailFacility 
for type in AllTypesBased of Controller("HibernatingRhinos"):
	component type.Name, type

Done.

I didn't believe it, to be fair.

Paying for Hibenrating Rhinos

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:39:40 GMT

I have been producing the Hibernating Rhinos screen casts for over a year now, and so far, I have offered them free of charge.

Estimated cost of producing a single screen cast is 3,500$ - 10,000$ each, considering the amount of planning, recording & editing that goes into them.

I am thinking about making the new episodes available for a fee, something in the 10$ - 25$ range.

I would like your opinions in this matter,

~ Ayende

Hibernating Rhino 8 - Going Distributed as Torrent

Ayende Rahien — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:01 GMT

Edward Connolly was kind enough to setup Hibernating Rhino #8 as a torrent file.

You can get the torrent from here: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1286587

Hibernating Rhinos #8 - Going Distributed & Building our own Bus

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:56:25 GMT

Well, I was toying around with the idea for about a month or so, and finally I got around to actually record & editing that.

Highlights:

Vastly improved sound quality. I think you'll enjoy it.
Vastly extended in time & scope. For some reason, this screencast is longer than many full length movies. We also write our own bus implementation from scratch, and discuss the implementation details there.
This is more of a low level discussion, not a high level architectural discussion about why you want a bus (well, I do talk about it a bit, but mostly we implement the bus).
The first 45 minutes are dedicated to moving from an old style RPC to an async batching bus approach, that still uses the request / reply. The rest is dedicated to building the one way, message passing, queue based, service bus.

There are some interesting challenges there, and I hope you'll make sense of my grunts as I write the code.
The last hour or so of the screen cast it live coding, and you get to see how I revert some design decisions as they turn out to be problematic.

The technical details:

Total length: An hour and forth minutes(!)
Size: 160 MB
Code starts on 04:31

Go to download page

How did it get to that point?

Ayende Rahien — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:11:44 GMT

Just finished recording Hibernating Rhino #8, somehow, it is 1 hour and 40 minutes long.

Then again, we get to implement a full service bus and some variations.