Project Management Software
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is an enjoyable read, and has inspired me to read an implementation of the Object/Relational Mapper patterns described in the book. So for the last couple of weekends, while my wife is at college, I've been digging through the NHibernate source. As understanding...
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Breaking Apart at the Seams
I had a project that involved developing software for those hand-held barcode scanners that are often used in warehouses to track inventory. The project required a lot of repetitive manual testing. Data had to be manually keyed in with a key pad to test the functionality I was adding. Previously tested...
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Cuyahoga's Search Implementation
As new content, such as as a new article, forum topic, or blog post is added to a website it must also be added to the search index to enable users to search for it. Some websites keep their search indexes updated with a scheduling mechanism that periodically scans and indexes all of a websites content...
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Search in C# with Lucene.Net / DotLucene
For projects that require full-text search, its worth taking a look at Lucene.Net. I think the commercially usable open-source library is a useful tool to be familiar with. It powers high traffick websites and some interesting open source search projects. The code snippets below show the bare minimum...
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