http://www.buildmasters.com.au Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:35:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In part 2 of this series, I outlined my requirements for an ideal DAL generator. Well, not having found any tool out there that meets my criteria, I ended up writing the tool myself, meeting all but one of my objectives [I dont handle stored procedures yet].   Sql Server 2005 is the ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/09/04/the-search-for-a-c-dal-code-generator-that-actually-works-part-3-the-solution/ Now that I have outlined the reasons why current DAL tools do not satisfy me, I will list my requirements for the ideal DAL code gen tool. The tool should: Generate the DAL for the whole database in one hit, not table by table, generating all non-system tables and views out of ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/09/04/the-search-for-a-c-dal-code-generator-that-actually-works-part-2-the-requirements-2/ Besides developers, the database is your company’s greatest asset. The data in your database, your ability to get at it, shape it, analyse it, report on it, turn it in to understandable meaningful information, is what gives your company competitive advantage. I have been designing, using, optimising and programming against relational databases ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/09/04/the-search-for-a-c-dal-code-generator-that-actually-works-part-1-the-problem-2/ Do you have complex legacy systems with extensive database components? Do you need to map out what you have in order to move forward efficiently? This kind of analysis is time consuming and error prone if attempted manually. We have a fast and efficient automated solution that will save you time ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/08/21/data-analysis-services/ There are a number of elements to SCRUM that really work well for us. One of the most obvious features is our 'SCRUM Wall', where we 'publish' all the work items that form part of the current sprint to 'The World'. The Wall is primarily for the team, but it’s surprising ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/08/01/a-victory-for-scrum/ Application is the future of virtualization. Xenocode allows you to package up an application and deploy it in a virtaul exe to run anywhere, (anywhere on windows). I came across it when I wanted to create a portable application using the ,net framework. Xenocode is amazing. ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/07/14/application-virtualization/ Subversion is our prefered tool for version control. With the latest version you have merge tracking and can compare history of word and excel documents, (when using the tortisesvn client). With this new functionality I can see it being our document management system as well. It is ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/07/14/subversion/ We believe that when a new developer starts work in our team they should be able to start work on real project tasks by lunch. To achieve this you need a number of things to be in place namely A Buildprocess Automated unit testing Developers virtual image Project tasks that can be allocated to ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/07/14/the-new-developer/ Here at Buildmasters, we have now moved all our development vm's and other servers to 64 bit editions of Windows. The 4GB memory limit is gone, and no more recycling IIS app pools and running out of virtual memory. One thing to note however: The \System32 directory contains 64 bit dlls, and ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/06/30/64-bit-windows-wtf-64-bit-dlls-live-in-system32-dir-32-bit-dllss-are-in-syswow64/ Many organisations have lots of business rules in TSQL stored procedures. You're right, that's crazy but that's what we see all the time, and our current project in Sydney, Australia using the Eagle PACE product is no different. Eagle PACE is an Opertaional Data Store for the financial services industry, in ... http://www.buildmasters.com.au/2008/06/24/sqlserver2005-move-from-tsql-to-sqlclr-and-save-your-project/