Fear and Humbleness…Obstacles in The Way of Success

By | March 10, 2009

“Oh no, I won’t go into that code; I am not that intelligent!”“oh no, I don’t want to try this software…I don’t know what it will do to my machine!”“Oh no, I can’t write such a unique blog post!”“Oh no, I will not twiply to that celebrity…come on…he is a celebrity!” These phrases kept chasing… Read More »

default ASP.NET Membership provider on different database

By | January 26, 2009

Every ASP.NET developer should already know about the Membership Provider that ships with ASP.NET 2.0. Configuring it is as easy as opening Visual Studio > select the Web project file > navigate to the Project menu item > and select “ASP.NET Configuration”. Follow the wizard and you are up and running now. But the problem… Read More »

Get On With It!

By | January 16, 2009

When we started gathering requirements from the charity organizations for Bunian, it appeared that there are other kinds of people who benefit from the charity organization; there are “needy families” whose father is still alive but can’t sustain their families, and “students” who can’t afford their study.  So Bunian needs to support all these Beneficiaries… Read More »

Importance of Documentation

By | December 26, 2008

  Lately we have decided in Bunian to move on to NHibernate 2.0, and the contributor assigned to the move started out, only to send an email one day after: “THERE IS NO DOCUMENTATION!’.We had errors as a result to the move which couldn’t be fixed without a documentation explaining why this happened. After searching… Read More »

HttpApplication EndRequest Event Invoked Many Times In Single Request?

By | December 14, 2008

The other day I was putting the last touch of a temporary way to manage the NHibernate session (ISession) in Bunian. So part of the task was to bind a method to the HttpApplication EndRequest event (in the Global.asax.cs file) like the following: public override void Init() {        this.EndRequest += WorkContext.NHibernateSessionManager.Instance.HttpRequestEnded; } By doing… Read More »

Travians be Warned…Rapacious is Rising

By | December 12, 2008

I don’t know whether thank or scold my good friend Omar Qadan for introducing me to Travian, a strategy game played online. It’s amazing how a simple,  web-based, HTML-front game can be so rich and vast entertainment wise! It’s a real strategy game where you build villages, resources, armies, embassies, and conduct trading, diplomacy, wars,… Read More »

Introduction to NHibernate Session at Jordev Was Good

By | December 5, 2008

The feedback was very good, and I was glad that everybody liked it. Jordev is really moving ahead, and I am very excited being part of it 🙂 Below is the slide show (it’s an enhanced version from my previous one): [slideshare id=821222&doc=introductiontonhibernate-1228487480885456-9&w=425] Code is the same of the previous one which you can download… Read More »