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December 2004
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Apples and torpedos
Anders Ivner
– How do you compare one object/relational mapping product to another? One way would be to measure the time of reads and updates. Another way is to test how the products implement features that are commonly expected from O/R-mappers. This is the approach taken by the TORPEDO benchmark from The ...
November 2004
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More coding peeves...
Anders Ivner
– David Intersimone posted about coding peeves, asking people to submit their own. Here's mine: implicit dependencies. The most common kind of implicit dependency is the 'magic number'. Different parts of a program share the same assumptions on a piece of data. The problem is not limited integers or ...
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Re: Domain Specific Languages and OCL
Anders Ivner
– I've been following what's being written about Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages with some curiosity. A recent post by Alan Cameron Wills highlights one of my concerns, and gives me reason to react. My problem is the notion of "Domain Specific". He writes, regarding OCL (and ASL), ...
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More ECO 2 internals...
Anders Ivner
– This time I'm going to dig deep into one of the core components of ECO - the cache. If you're wondering what ECO is, or have just gotten started with it I suggest you first read some of the tutorials available, or, even better, try it out. But if you've read my previous post, and find that you still ...
October 2004
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ECO 2 under the hood
Anders Ivner
– One of the bigger changes in ECO 2 is not immediately visible to the casual beholder; it is on the inside. We have broken the monolithic EcoSpace into collaborating components to enable an open and extensible architecture. In this post I will attempt to outline that architecture. But first, allow me ...
