Even with ORMs like ActiveRecord, DataMapper which ease the pain of relational data storage, considerable developer effort goes into wrangling Ruby objects into their databases. This is true even when working with Document-oriented databases where the nested data structures more closely map to Ruby objects. Aqua is a new, proof-of-concept …
Rick Hillegas (one of the original developers of Apache Derby) will share his thoughts on Java DB (a.k.a. Apache Derby), a free, pure Java relational database, which is co-bundled in the Java 6 JDK. Rock-solid and feature-rich, Java DB nevertheless fits in a 2.5M jar file. Rick’s talk will cover …
Ted Neward and Danny Simmons of the ADO.NET team discuss the Entity Framework, ORMs and OSLO
In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system. http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/166
In this episode we are going to take a look at how to implement the NHibernate.Burrow session management library. NHibernate.Burrow is a light weight middleware developed to support .Net applications using NHibernate by providing advanced and smart session/transaction management and other facilitates. http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/165
Some might think of DataMapper as a better, faster, competitor to ActiveRecord. However, they would be missing on of its greatest strengths. At its core, DataMapper provides a uniform interface on top of ANY persistance layer. All thats needed is a simple adapter class that can translate the native persistance …
