Gojko Adzic

Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, presented the new features in the upcoming Spring 3.0 release today at the QCon London 2009 conference. Continue Reading »

If you are in London on Thursday and are not yet registered for the opensource .net exchange, here’s what you’ll miss:

• Dylan Beattie: JQuery and ASP.NET MVC
• David Ross: Aspect oriented programming with PostSharp
• Sebastien Lambla: Fluent NHibernate
• David de Florinier: ActiveMQ and NMS
• Mike Hadlow: Implementing the repository pattern
• Russ Miles: Spring .NET best practices

We start at 6:30 PM in the Crypt on Clarkenwell (near the Farringdon tube station). We have about 200 people registered so far, but as we have a bigger venue this time there are still open places. The mini-conference is free, but you do have to register upfront. For more details and to register, see:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange

Here’s an implementation of the Slim test runner for Fitnesse that wraps all tests into spring transactions and rolls back on the end of each test, to make data-driven tests instantly repeatable with minimal code and no configuration changes in the fixtures or the Spring context. Continue Reading »

Here’s the final programme for the OpenSource .NET Exchange on 22/Jan in London:

• Dylan Beattie : JQuery
• David Ross: PostSharp
• Sebastien Lambla: Fluent NHibernate
• David de Florinier: ActiveMQ and NMS
• Mike Hadlow: Implementing the Repository pattern
• Russ Miles: Spring .NET best practices

After the talks, we are planning to have a discussion panel to compare Castle and Spring.NET and work out when to use what.

We have a larger venue this time, and free beer and pizza is the perfect excuse to come.

For full details and to sign up, see the event page on skillsmatter.com.

Declarative transactions in Spring and Hibernate make programming enterprise applications much easier, but they also make integrated database tests a bit tricky. I’ve finally found good solution for this problem — it is a bit dirty, but very effective. Continue Reading »