Blog entries for January 2010

So back in August I mentioned that I was being slow in posting because I was making the switch to NHibernate .  Well I finished that conversion about a week after that post, so what's my excuse now? At any rate lets talk about NHibernate .  First of all.  I used it in conjunction with Castle's Active Record project.  It was a really quick and clean implementation.  I converted over from LINQ2SQL in about a weekend with the worst of the changes being some minor tweaks to

This Christmas I got the latest version of the PS3, the PS3 Slim, and I have to say I'm really liking it. I've been a PC gamer for years, usually playing RPG or RTS games with the occasional First Person game thrown in, and I haven't felt any sort of burning desire to get a console.  Sure a time or two when a new game came out that was console only I thought about getting an XBox or PS3, but I never really cared enough to pull the trigger.  I had a hard time justifying a console for a

Yes its true, after three years with the same phone I finally pulled the trigger and upgraded.  It was a long time coming.  For the last 3 or 4 months the battery life on my HTC 8525 had been nearly non existent.  On top of that the screen on the phone had been acting really funky for the last few weeks.  Every so often the screen would just go all white, and the only way to get it back would be to hard boot the phone.  Then just last week my screen developed what can be