I got a couple of complaints about regression in NHibernate Generics 1.0.11, about using an abstract class. I hope that this would fix the issue.

Code and binaries are here

I just found the text below on the NUnit forum (removed since then), and I couldn't stop laughing.

I will be going to look for my tinfoil hat now...

Yesterday the beta for NHibernate 1.2 was released, the new features that interests me are:

• Native generics (you no longer have to use the NHibernate.Generics compatability library).
• Batching support (SQL Server only) - huge perforamance increase in some scenarios.
• Support for using Stored Procedures.
• Support for named connection strings.
• SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Everywhere dialects
• Parametrized types and User Collection Types - for the really advanced scenarios :-)
• Support for projections in criteria queries - This one looks especially interesting

• IL-based reflection optimizer - another big performance boost.

Old Man's War

Only occasionally I get to read a book that make go "Wow!", merely because the strength of the plot and the charm of the charaters. Scalzi creates a full fledge world (universe, actually) very quick, very easily and very convincingly.

The story reminded me strongly of Hienlien's Starship Troopers (although the only common plot idea is war among the stars). As someone who grew up on Hienlien's books, that is a high praise.

There are two other books in the same universe, and I'm looking forward to reading them...

I am currently listenining to Hansleminutes #33 and found out that Mac users has an advantage over Windows users in the laptop department. Apperantly Mac user can simply shut the lid, put it in the bag and go on.

I've been doing the exact that with my laptop, whose uptime at the exceeded the 40 days mark before the @#$% Windows Update decided that it is a good time to force a shutdown, with nary a problem.

IoC 29 - Required to make Binsor work, has moved (with changes from Hammett), to the trunk. I've update Rhino Commons with the new changes, and now you can use it with the Windsor from Castle's trunk.

Have fun...

I just had a converstion with a friend of mine, that started like this:

Her: (accusing) "Why didn't you call to say happy new year*?"
Me: "I don't call anyone to say that."
Her: "It is good that you didn't call, I hate when people do that."

Damned if I do, and damned if I don't. God help me if I could ever understand women.

* It is the Jewish new year.

The blog was down for about half an hour while I updated to dasBlog 1.9. You should be able to notice a major speedup.

The nice feature that I really want is the tag cloud support, but I can't figure out how to make it work, I added it to the theme, but it isn't outputting anything. You should notice the nice category view, though.

Just read this post, talking about a problem with generating valid XML for IE using Brail. The issue is that Brail considers <? ?> as code blocks markers, thus completely disabling support for xml processing instructions.

This is a breaking change in Brail, but I feel that the reason for removing them is strong enough to do so. If you have got Brail code that uses <? ?>, you need to replace it to either <% %> (not recommended) or <?brail ?> (recommended, valid XML). If this is a really big issue for you, please inform me, and I'll create a compatability mode.

And Ken, I couldn't post any comments to your blog for some reason.

I just good a Happy New Year email from a company I bought some nonsense from about three years ago. Leaving aside the fact that I contains no memory of why I was in their distribution list, I have posted below all the emails that were in the To field. This is at 40% resolution, and it was enough to fill up a whole page in word.

Way to go.