Comments for Bryant Rethinks Software http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog So you don't have to... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on 5 Things That ASP.NET Developers Would Love about Ruby on Rails by Bryant http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/23/5-things-that-aspnet-developers-would-love-about-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Bryant Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/23/5-things-that-aspnet-developers-would-love-about-ruby-on-rails/#comment-68 To be clear, I'm not saying that the MS development model is bad. My only point was that there are some really fun things in the Rails framework that an ASP.NET developer would enjoy. In my mind, Rails is a good fit for public site or a startup and ASP.NET is a better fit for large corporate (LOB) apps. As for Entity Framework, it does beat Active Record in terms of complex domain mapping which can't easily be done in AR, but that is overkill for 90% of sites. And getting going in EF is a much steeper set-up and learning curve then AR. To be clear, I’m not saying that the MS development model is bad. My only point was that there are some really fun things in the Rails framework that an ASP.NET developer would enjoy. In my mind, Rails is a good fit for public site or a startup and ASP.NET is a better fit for large corporate (LOB) apps.

As for Entity Framework, it does beat Active Record in terms of complex domain mapping which can’t easily be done in AR, but that is overkill for 90% of sites. And getting going in EF is a much steeper set-up and learning curve then AR.

]]> Comment on 5 Things That ASP.NET Developers Would Love about Ruby on Rails by bferman http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/23/5-things-that-aspnet-developers-would-love-about-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-67 bferman Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:01:45 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/23/5-things-that-aspnet-developers-would-love-about-ruby-on-rails/#comment-67 The Entity Framework provides similar functionality as Active Record and takes a lot of work out of writing data centric apps. EF can do both model first and code first, so take your pick. Even SQL Express Management Studio will generate stored procs for you that will drop old tables and recreate it them with your latest schema. Visual Studio provides (among so many other great things) that wonderful intellisense and immediately lets me know if I've made a mistake when I misspell a type name I intend to use. Strongly typed views and the speed of compiled code are nice bonuses too. The Entity Framework provides similar functionality as Active Record and takes a lot of work out of writing data centric apps. EF can do both model first and code first, so take your pick.

Even SQL Express Management Studio will generate stored procs for you that will drop old tables and recreate it them with your latest schema.

Visual Studio provides (among so many other great things) that wonderful intellisense and immediately lets me know if I’ve made a mistake when I misspell a type name I intend to use.

Strongly typed views and the speed of compiled code are nice bonuses too.

]]> Comment on Is it Time to Join the NoSQL Movement? by Bryant http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/08/is-it-time-to-join-the-nosql-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Bryant Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:51:52 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/08/is-it-time-to-join-the-nosql-movement/#comment-66 Hey Alex, Thanks for all the details. I'm still new to this whole NoSql thing, so I appreciate the clarifications and your blog looks like a great place to get even more answers! Hey Alex,

Thanks for all the details.

I’m still new to this whole NoSql thing, so I appreciate the clarifications and your blog looks like a great place to get even more answers!

]]> Comment on Is it Time to Join the NoSQL Movement? by Alex Popescu http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/08/is-it-time-to-join-the-nosql-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Alex Popescu Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:32:44 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/08/is-it-time-to-join-the-nosql-movement/#comment-63 If you'd allow there are a couple of small corrections that I'd suggest. Firstly there are many different NoSQL systems, but if you want to categorize them the 2 most useful approaches I'd suggest are: a) in terms of their persistence model and b) in terms of the CAP theorem For the a) above you'd get: - column-based stores - document databases - key-value stores - graph databases - oodb As you can imagine each of these categories contain multiple solutions, each with its pros and cons. I'd encourage you to check out the MyNoSQL blog: http://nosql.mypopescu.com which covers the most important aspects of the major NoSQL projects and follows closely all things related to NoSQL ecosystem. You'll discover other very interesting NoSQL systems than the ones you are mentioning in the article (not to say that those are not attractive). If you’d allow there are a couple of small corrections that I’d suggest.

Firstly there are many different NoSQL systems, but if you want to categorize them the 2 most useful approaches I’d suggest are: a) in terms of their persistence model and b) in terms of the CAP theorem

For the a) above you’d get:
- column-based stores
- document databases
- key-value stores
- graph databases
- oodb

As you can imagine each of these categories contain multiple solutions, each with its pros and cons. I’d encourage you to check out the MyNoSQL blog: http://nosql.mypopescu.com which covers the most important aspects of the major NoSQL projects and follows closely all things related to NoSQL ecosystem. You’ll discover other very interesting NoSQL systems than the ones you are mentioning in the article (not to say that those are not attractive).

]]> Comment on 5 Tips for Getting Started With LINQ by David Sheardown http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/02/02/5-tips-for-getting-started-with-linq/comment-page-1/#comment-58 David Sheardown Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:25:08 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/?p=205#comment-58 Thank you! a very simple way to show getting started with Linq... I have been using traditional methods.. i.e. using MS Enterprise Lib 4x but of course you still have to code all the DB bits... so about time to look at linq... Thanks again. Thank you! a very simple way to show getting started with Linq… I have been using traditional methods.. i.e. using MS Enterprise Lib 4x but of course you still have to code all the DB bits… so about time to look at linq…

Thanks again.

]]> Comment on Home Backup Smackdown!: Time Machine vs Carbonite vs iDrive by Bryant http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/23/home-backup-smackdown-time-machine-vs-carbonite-vs-idrive/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Bryant Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:44:26 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/23/home-backup-smackdown-time-machine-vs-carbonite-vs-idrive/#comment-57 No problem. I thought the same thing about reviews. That's why I tried to get a good one out there. No problem. I thought the same thing about reviews. That’s why I tried to get a good one out there.

]]> Comment on MonoTouch Review: Porting an Obj-C App by Bryant http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/17/monotouch-review-porting-an-obj-c-app/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Bryant Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:43:12 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/17/monotouch-review-porting-an-obj-c-app/#comment-56 @Michael - Thanks for all the hard work on MonoDevelop! Most of the issues seemed to be related to adding new folders and subsequently deleting them. The other issue I get pretty frequently has to do with modal windows losing focus. I will try to reproduce both and open a bug report. @Michael - Thanks for all the hard work on MonoDevelop!

Most of the issues seemed to be related to adding new folders and subsequently deleting them. The other issue I get pretty frequently has to do with modal windows losing focus. I will try to reproduce both and open a bug report.

]]> Comment on Home Backup Smackdown!: Time Machine vs Carbonite vs iDrive by Amy http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/23/home-backup-smackdown-time-machine-vs-carbonite-vs-idrive/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Amy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:10:37 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/23/home-backup-smackdown-time-machine-vs-carbonite-vs-idrive/#comment-55 Great post! There are not enough recent reviews of backup storage options on the web. I just bought iDrive and a week later my hard drive died. I was able to access my files from another computer as well as restore all 50gb. Thanks again for sharing! Great post! There are not enough recent reviews of backup storage options on the web. I just bought iDrive and a week later my hard drive died. I was able to access my files from another computer as well as restore all 50gb. Thanks again for sharing!

]]> Comment on MonoTouch Review: Porting an Obj-C App by Michael Hutchinson http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/17/monotouch-review-porting-an-obj-c-app/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Michael Hutchinson Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:54:34 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/17/monotouch-review-porting-an-obj-c-app/#comment-54 Thanks for the great review! We initially didn't include the SVN addin on Mac because of old reports that it had been very unstable there. However, after some demand we tested and dogfooded it,and didn't run into any problems, so we included it in MD 2.2. If you're having problems, it would be very helpful if you could open bug reports and attach any exceptions or crash traces you're getting. Thanks for the great review!

We initially didn’t include the SVN addin on Mac because of old reports that it had been very unstable there. However, after some demand we tested and dogfooded it,and didn’t run into any problems, so we included it in MD 2.2. If you’re having problems, it would be very helpful if you could open bug reports and attach any exceptions or crash traces you’re getting.

]]> Comment on MonoTouch Review: Porting an Obj-C App by Bryant http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/17/monotouch-review-porting-an-obj-c-app/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Bryant Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:48:13 +0000 http://www.bryanthankins.com/techblog/2010/01/17/monotouch-review-porting-an-obj-c-app/#comment-53 Thanks for the input guys. Glad to see there is a community of MonoTouch developers starting to come together! Thanks for the input guys. Glad to see there is a community of MonoTouch developers starting to come together!

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