Explains Laravel 5.0's Eloquent attribute casting feature, which automatically converts model attributes to specific data types like boolean or integer.
Explains AngularJS's $resource service, comparing it to the Active Record pattern for client-side data management and API interaction.
Explores how relational databases like PostgreSQL can adopt benefits from NoSQL, such as schemaless flexibility and JSON document storage.
Explains how to use JOIN operations in JPA finder queries within the Play Framework to filter tasks by a related user's name.
A guide to creating an Ebean-like finder utility for JPA/Hibernate in a Play Framework project, with code examples.
A rebuttal to a critical blog post about Spring Data MongoDB, defending its design and clarifying misconceptions about its ORM-like features.
Explains the difference between ORM models and application models in web development, advocating for the repository pattern to isolate business logic.
A tutorial on using PostgreSQL array fields within Django models to simplify data structures like tags, improving performance and code clarity.
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Explains the Identity Map pattern in Entity Framework v4, a key ORM concept for preventing duplicate object instances and ensuring data consistency.
A developer shares an improved implementation of the session-per-request pattern for NHibernate in ASP.NET MVC, addressing flaws in previous approaches.
Explains why the author chose the Dapper micro ORM for the public-facing part of the fabrik project, focusing on performance and efficient data modeling.
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Explains how to use lambda expressions with Entity Framework's Include method for type-safe eager loading, avoiding string-based property paths.
Announcing the release of django-taggit 0.9, a Django app for tagging, with new features, bug fixes, and breaking changes.
A developer proposes a new API for generating Django fixtures more easily, outlining the concept and hoping someone will build it.
A deep dive into the internal architecture and customization API of the django-taggit library for Django.
Fixes an NHibernate.Linq bug where queries with the same alias on different association paths produced incorrect results.
Hades 1.5 released, removing the mandatory Persistable interface requirement and introducing new XML namespace features for Spring/JPA applications.
A proposal for improving Django's application architecture with 'Application Objects' to solve issues like model extensibility and GenericForeignKey misuse.
A technical note on how Django's self-referencing ForeignKey fields can cause unnecessary SQL JOINs and a workaround using the extra() method.
Explains the removal of the Meta.using option in Django's multiple database support and the search for a better, more reusable API.
