NHibernate 2.0 GA

Fabio announced that version 2.0 of NHibernate is now released. This is great timing, as we’ve been using the release candidate for a few weeks now.

Download from SourceForge.

Unfortunately this release doesn’t include LINQ for NHibernate, but the word on the street is that is planned for 2.1. That will be a really useful addition. I’d much prefer to use LINQ to write queries and let the compiler check the syntax rather than have HQL strings that I only find out at runtime are incorrect.

UrlScan v3.0

Version 3.0 of this useful filter has been released. Just the thing to help keep the nasties out of your IIS server.

Nazim summarises the new features.

And the winner is…

Last night the SA finals of Microsoft’s Demo competition were held. The state finalists were:

• Nigel Spencer
• Jason Schluter
• Rob Farley
• myself

Andrew Coates hosted the show (well there were only the five of us there, so it was a small show) and also judged the presentations. At the conclusion, Andrew announced that Nigel was the winner!

After we posed for a photo in our very trendy bright orange T-shirts, Andrew then took us out to dinner along with Darren Neimke (who happened to be in the neighbourhood).

It was a great night, and all the best for Nigel in the national finals to be held at TechEd 2008 in Sydney in a couple of weeks.