Oren Eini

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RavenDB Workshops - Deep dive into practical use of Document Data Modeling

Aug 01 2008

How many rewrites?

time to read 1 min | 122 words

I am working on a pet project for a while now, it is fun, and it is nice, but... takes a look how many times I had to rewrite it:

https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/branches/rhino-queues-1.0 <-- final version branch
https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/branches/rhino-queues-bdb/ <-- with Beckley DB
https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/branches/rhino-queues-firebird/ <-- FireBird
https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/branches/rhino-queues-sqlite/ <-- Sqlite
https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/branches/rhino-queues-with-disk/ <-- custom persistence
https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/experiments/rhino-queues/ <-- initial playground

That was... interesting.

And I do think that there is value in restarting so many ways, because now I have a much better internal structure (and external one as well :-) ) .

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01 Aug 2008
13:07 PM

Mark Nijhof

Hi Oren,

I am intrigued by your fluent interface approach, very cool. Thanks for posting I'll learn from it.

-Mark

01 Aug 2008
14:33 PM

Andreas Öhlund

Nice!

Your energy never seize to amaze me!

I guess this could be the perfect core in an "xcopy deployable reliable transport for nservicebus"? (for use with smart clients)

01 Aug 2008
15:00 PM

Mike Brown

So that's what you were doing with the embedded DBs...tres cool!

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