...OTE: This answer talks about the Entity Framework's DbContext, but it is applicable to any sort of Unit of Work implementation, such as LINQ to SQL's DataContext, and NHibernate's ISession. Let start by echoing Ian: Having a single DbContext for the whole application is a Bad Idea. The only si...

...ently added a new project to Git using Eclipse, but do not see the project appear in my GitHub account. 10 Answers ...

...even absolutely required, if you need to maintain several versions of your app. Feature branches also are very convenient, notably if one developer needs to work on a huge change, while others still release new versions. So to me using both mechanisms is a very good strategy. Interesting link fro...

...through the entire JSF lifecycle upon (partial) form submit. JSF will then apply the request values (finding HTTP request parameter based on component's own client ID and then either setting it as submitted value in case of EditableValueHolder components or queueing a new ActionEvent in case of Acti...

...alid method arguments or buggy method implementation) there is nothing the application can do to fix the problem in mid-execution. The best it can do is log the problem and wait for the developer to fix it at a later time. Unless the exception you are throwing meets all of the above conditions it ...

...to retrieve a file (in the same directory as the assembly) as a stream via Application.GetContentStream(URI). For this method to work, it needs a AssemblyAssociatedContentFile custom attribute which Visual Studio graciously adds when you mark a file as "Content" Embedded resource: Embeds the file in...

...ame). This is a case when global is evil. I had problems with this kind of approach with some component of Zend Framework. There are classes which use static method calls (factories) in order to build objects. It was impossible for me to supply another factory to that instance in order to get a cust...

...ean customers vs. American customers) then it may be possible to infer the appropriate shard membership easily and automatically, and query only the relevant shard. Some more information about sharding: Firstly, each database server is identical, having the same table structure. Secondly, the ...

I'm building a support ticket tracking app and have a few models I'd like to create from one page. Tickets belong to a Customer via a ForeignKey. Notes belong to Tickets via a ForeignKey as well. I'd like to have the option of selecting a Customer (that's a whole separate project) OR creating a new ...

... pattern for these is basically pick whichever one is superficially more appealing to you use it in an app or two bump up against customization problems or limitations maybe try to work with the community via issues & pull requests eventually get fed up and just build your own using what you l...