A Developer E-pistle

Subsonic is my favorite library for creating data access layers in asp.net.

• It creates properties to the related entities/tables in the database, some people like to call this feature Deep Properties!
• no need to create CRUD stored procedures for every table in the db
• you can do queries on the fly, WHERE clauses, ORDER BY clauses and aggregate functions
• It’s open-source and free
• the classes are generated using a tool, no more tedious DAL writing
• for your convenience you get “Scaffolding forms”.
• it uses parameterized dynamic sql, which makes all those great features above possible
• It has providers for MS Sql Server and MySQL

If you are an asp.net developer you should give it a try, or at least check it out, it’ll be worth your while.

I finally did it.
Hosting my blog on a private hosting provider where i can have as many blogs as i want, take them offline, back ‘em up, do whatever i want.
I know you can do all that with regular free blogs, but it feels good to be in control, plus it was a good experience setting it up and everything, which wasn’t that hard at all thanks to the awesome documentation that the WordPress guys provide..

I’ll try to keep this blog updated with everything geeky/technical/computer-related that i find interesting or worth noting.