Hibernate at work

The project I’m working on at work is gaining momentum, and we are nearly starting with the proof-of-concept architecture solution. While I’ve used ORM‘s for data objects and domain persistence in the past, we have been playing with NHibernate at work for this project.…

Google Mashup Editor vs Yahoo Pipes

There’s a huge amount of data (raw and processed) on the Internet, which makes it a uber-database of sorts. What we always needed were tools we could use to fetch or mix this data, and create other useful streams of information. Technically, this mechanism combines data mining (scraping)…

DIY Online Web App Builders

What if the next time you longed for a piece of software to help you do your job, you could simply create the software yourself, in a few easy steps? That’s the promise of some do-it-yourself online web application builder tools, like Coghead, Dabble DB, Zoho Creator, Caspio…

MySQL has the lowest TCO

While I was looking for some data replication stuff over at the MySQL web site, I noticed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison chart for the leading database servers. Here’s what the chart looks like for a single-server dual-CPU TCO spanned over 3 years: MySQL seems to…

Developer Cheat Sheets

Databases: MySQL Cheat Sheet MySQL Reference List SQL Server Cheat Sheet SQL Server 2005 Commands Programming: ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet C# Language Reference C# Programmer’s Reference Sheet .NET Cheat Sheets PHP Cheat Sheet PHP Developer Cheat Sheet Ruby Cheat Sheet (PDF) VB.NET Cheat Sheet (PDF) Web Dev: CSS…

Web-based SQL Designer

JavaScript and AJAX are gaining wide-spread audience, and lots of creative applications are emerging from this set of client-side technologies. For instance, checkout this cool SQL Designer totally written in DHTML/JavaScript. It has plenty of expert features including schema import & export.…