I have created an NHibernate second-level cache provider for AppFabric. For more information on why I have created this project please take a look at the Stack Overflow question I posted some 18 months ago. You can find all of the code on GitHub and in the coming days I am planning on creating a NuGet package for this project and fully documenting all the features either here or on GitHub, and detailing some of the features I plan to add in the future as well as adding some (more) tests. More...

I have had various team lead and senior developer positions that have involved mentoring other developers. I think the most difficult part of mentoring is when a new developer joins an existing project. More...

When reading data from the database with NHibernate, there are now more options than ever. It is my opinion that some of these options are better than others and that they should be used in the following order of preference. More...

It has been about a month since my first "diary" entry about starting my own business, so this seemed like a good time to write my second. More...

From time to time I've needed to use generic classes but haven't known what the generic arguments are until runtime - for example because I'm iterating over classes I've found through reflection or I've read from a database. Hopefully, the contrived example below will explain what I mean. More...

What follows are a number of useful SQL queries I have needed and am bound to forget if I don't make a note of them. I'll aim to add to this list as and when I come up against other non-trivial queries I'm bound to forget. More...

When dealing with AppFabric, I regularly want to check the status of the nodes in my AppFabric cluster. Generally all I want is the results presented after a (Re-)Start of the cache cluster. More...

This blog has never really been updated as often as I would have liked it to have been. I am determined to put that right going forward! After talking about it for years I have finally left the safety of full-time employment and have set up my own business: SPT Development Ltd. This is part of the reason why I am more determined than ever to start blogging more regularly. From the limited amount of blogging I have done up untill now I have already discovered that it is a fantastic way of marketing yourself.More...

From time to time, I've needed to remove hosts from and AppFabric cache cluster and always end up having to google what to do. Here are the steps to follow on the host you wish to remove from the cache cluster:More...

I've been using the regular expression applet provided by the apache project for some time now, to test my regular expressions. To my horror, it wasn't available today, so I put together my own silverlight version.More...