Alex Pop's Blog, page 2

Entity Framework 5 performance improvements for testable applications

    Earlier this year I wrote a series of posts about how to automate Entity Framework(EF) testing but since then a lot of things happened: EF 5 was released, it was made open source and Microsoft has published an in-depth article about performance tweaks for older versions of EF and performance improvements in EF 5. Following these events I can now expand my previous post and address an important performance consideration around the EF testable interface that I described earlier.

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Post-Silverlight remarks

    After spending a year and a half in XAML land using Silverlight extensively I leave with pleasant memories but also with a bitter feeling.

    The main strength of Silverlight is creating complex applications for Windows/Mac OS X with ease while maintaining a low deployment footprint. Silverlight XAML is almost identical with WPF XAML minus a couple of features and this versatility seems to make Silverlight an essential tool for the enterprise application deve...

Using a desktop shim with a PhoneGap app

  I wanted to look at some sample PhoneGap apps code but the cost of setting up an Android/iOS shell project seemed a bit high. Sure it is worth for a real app but if you just want to play around with code and after you paid it a couple of times you start to think "it has to be a better way". And ... wait for it ... there is.

  The key was the search for "phonegap shim". This brings back a couple of GitHub repos but some of them look stale. One that looks fresh and juicy is  ...