MongoDB – getting better for .NET

Since my last post Rob Connery has joined the team working on MongoDB, and he recently blogged about the latest additions he has made on github . I couldn’t resist taking a look at the latest changes, and even though there is still some way to go it is nice to see the...

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Ayende - the relational dragonslayer

Ayende, who most know to be one of the Guru's when talking about ORM's and by extention working with relationel databases came to a very interesting conclusion a couple of days ago when he received a phonecall. To parafrase his point in "Slaying relational dragons" in a few...

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Db4o – first look

As the next step in my recent adventures into NoSQL country I decided to take a look at db4o . Shortly put I hope it will give me more than the document based databases, like Mongo that I have also been taking out for a spin. My interest in NoSQL has been kindled further than it...

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My Ajaxy JavaScript stack

I have been working primarily with ASP.NET MVC for a little over a year now, and this has prompted me to do quite a bit more Ajaxy functionality. So while doing this I have been looking at quite a few Ajax/Javascript libraries. As most other developers I have been swept away by...

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MongoDB – how to get started

Even though I have been pretty disconnected during the holydays I couldn’t help read that Rob Conery wrote quite a bit on his blog about his thoughts on Ayendes “EF vs NHibernate” discussion. Rob Conery argues that he is tired of these discussions and that we need to look at the...

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