Okay, here is an interesting issue. I am currently building a big project using NHibernate 1.0.2, and I need some features on NHibernate 1.2, mostly with regard to the new critieras. At the moment, we can't move to 1.2, there are concerns about it being beta and other changes that will keep us busy with technical stuff rather than building business stuff. Those are valid concerns, but I still feel that it will take more time in the end to move to the new version.

I can solve the problem with 1.0.2, but not cleanly. I can back port the new stuff that I need (basically, a single class) and use it against NHibernate 1.0.2 (without modifications to NHibernate). The issue I wonder about is how to prepare for the eventual move to NHibernate 1.2. The last thing that I want is to have two ways to do something, or using the inferior method to handle it.

I already have a big comment right there:

 Any other suggestions?

I found that I need to group a collection by a certain attribute of its member quite often. Usually because I'm trying to do some crazy things with deeply nested and timed to put some data on the screen.

Anyway, here is the code:

It is not earth shattering or anything like it, but it is going to make a lot of tasks a lot easier now.

(BTW, this is now a part of Rhino Commons).

For a while, I was sure that I had a spyware on the machine, but it turned out to be just VS2005 SP1 Beta1 installer (from now on, known as SP1, because it is quite a mouthful).

It kept pegging the CPU for about 20 minutes!

At least I managed to uninstall it and got back my Web Application Projects.

It took amazingly short while for me to decide that SP1 Beta1 is not going to work for me.

Here is what I get when I try to create a new WebForm in my application:

I'm going to try reinstalling, but if it isn't working, then it is going away.

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...