Author Archive for Andrew Keggie

.Net ORM – object relational mapping tools

Sub Sonic

In the last two weeks my development team has made a few new discoveries in the area .Net ORM tools. The new additions are Sub Sonic (free) and Entity Spaces (paid – $80).

We are in the process of evaluating and prototyping both of these tools for a enterprise sized web-application that we are about to start building. The team discovered these after struggling to implement the much talked about NHibernate ORM framework.

Insight, Process, Growth – an Agile Story

WhiteWallWeb* this article is loosely related to a real case but is primarily concerned with highlighting some principles about the value of great systems and well run projects.

White Wall Web (WWW) is involved in development projects that have a far greater affect on companies, industries and the economies of the countries in which these companies find themselves than I had ever previously realized.It has become apparent that the development of software solutions is possibly far more than just automation of a paper based processes to meet a business’s requirements or drivers. I will use a business case to explain this further.

Project Management and Time Tracking Tools Research

Over the past year we have endeavoured to discover and consolidate the tools that we use to manage project planning, tracking and reporting.
We have a variety of contractual relationships with clients. This adds complexity to consolidating tools across the company especially since each of these relationships has its own project planning, tracking and reporting requirements…

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