In my previous post we talked about SisoDb and that it is a document oriented provider for Sql-Server & SqlCe4. Now it is time to show how easy it is to use by building a simple blog. PrerequisitesI'm assuming you already have some knowledge in ASP.NET MVC and have used Visual Studio and NuGet before. Here I'm using Visual Studio Professional 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4 with .Net 4.5, but this should work with older versions as well. Creating the project ...

Some time ago I discovered, by the help of a colleague, a NoSQL database for SQL-server. More specifically a document oriented db-provider for SQL-server, written in C#. Wait, what? It is called "No"-SQL for a reason! What do you mean? Actually, now days, it doesn't really mean "No SQL". Let me use a (slightly shortened) quote from nosql-database.org: NoSQL DEFINITION: Next Generation Databases mostly addressing some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open-source and ...

What makes a great developer? Is it using the correct programming language? Maybe C# or Java? Perhaps C++, Perl or Ruby? Nope, can't be a programming language that makes a developer better than the other. Is it the tools then? Like Visual Studio with ReSharper? Maybe Eclipse or just Notepad? No, I don't think so either, although the tools are very important and make our programming a lot easier. So what is it then - what are the concrete values that great developers are made of? At a ...