When creating software components, it is often forgotten that it has to be easy to use. A lot of components are designed with an IoC and lots of unit tests. When using the component, the parent software should not need to create all the internal dependencies. This requires internal knowledge of the library which should […]
UPDATE: This NuGet package will no longer be supported as SLAB now supports an Elasticsearch sink. This blog still demonstates how to create a custom sink for SLAB. With the version 1.1 bulk inserts can also be used for custom sinks. See https://damienbod.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/semanic-logging-with-elasticsearch-using-semanticlogging-elasticsearch-nuget-package/ This post demonstrates how to create a Semantic.Logging Sink which adds documents […]
This post shows how to use multiple models in a single view. The models can be used in separated forms or together in one form. You could use each child model with a separate ajax post if required. Only properties in the parent class affect the child models, but a property in a child model […]
At present there are 2 main players in the full text searches for applications. Solr and Elasticsearch. Both are built using Lucene. There’s a lot of dicussion about which is the best, but for me, Elasticsearch provides some better features and seems to be growing faster. I decided to choose Elasticsearch because you require no […]
This post compares the Serialization to files using Protobuf, Json.NET (Newtonsoft) JSON and BSON, Servicestack Json and plain .NET Xml. The test measures the whole operation and not just serialization to a memory stream. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/SerializationToFileTests For Serialization, the tests use an Object class with int, double, string, Object properties and also a List of […]
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