Whatever database your are using, relational or document, there is one thing you can be certain of as soon as you get a second user of the system and that is concurrency conflicts. It may not happen often but eventually it will happen that two users load the same document, make some changes to it and save it back to the database. There are several ways of dealing with these kind of concurrency problems: Just ignoring it and letting the second users changes overwrite the first ones While this isn...

RavenDB has a very nice feature in it being safe by default and returns just 128 documents. Now you can override these safe defaults but it is very unwise to do so. And even if you decide to do so are you really going to show a million customers to your user at the same time? I would guess not as the user would not be really happy with the response or the speed of it. In most cases using paging is a much better solution.   Paging through a RavenDB result set It turns out that paging through...

The slides from my presentation on Practical use of HTML5 for the DotNed user group.   Practical html5 from Maurice Beijer     The source code can be found here .   There is an online demo version hosted on Azure websites here .   Enjoy! Blog Post by: Maurice

In deze podcast praat Dennis Vroegop met Eric-Jan Wischmann, een certified scrum master, over de ins- en outs van Scrum. Wat is scrum? Wat betekent het voor je dagelijkse werk? Wat zijn de valkuilen? Links: Scrumalliance: http://scrumalliance.org/ Agile manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/ Agile software development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development Enjoy! Blog Post by: Maurice

A few months ago I wrote this post about my diagnosis with Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease) . After writing it I had a brief reprieve from the symptoms and for a while I was able to work part time. Then in September I had surgery to remove some of the tumors. For some unknown reason this caused the disease to progress rapidly. I have now reached the point where I can no longer work at all. Not only that, I cannot even live on my own and take care of myself. I have had to move in with my mother...