I haven't posted anything in a while, but recently i've been playing around with NHibernate which sparked my interest in playing around with .NET again. A little over a year ago i sold my windows laptop which only left me with my iMac G5. The G5 chip is a PowerPC chip which ment i couldn't run Windows on it. No biggie, i thought. I disliked Windows anyway, and i was already using .NET at work all day so i figured i'd be fine. So at home, i switched to Java to scratch my coding itch.
Now, i think Java is a very nice language and i enjoyed writing a new IrcLeech version in it. But once i got IrcLeech working in Java, i never really found something else i wanted to do in it. So then i started playing around with Objective C and Cocoa to do some native OS X programming. And while those technologies are very cool, i didn't really find something cool i wanted to work on.
So about 2 weeks ago, i was finally able to play with NHibernate in a little experiment at work. I like the technology so much i really want to get involved with the project, and some other projects as well. So... i ordered a new Macbook so i'll still have OS X, but now i'll be able to run Visual Studio in a parallels desktop session alongside my OS X session. So once the laptop arrives, i plan on getting very familiar with the inner workings of nhibernate and perhaps even contribute to the project. There are some other projects i really wanna play with as well, such as Castle's DynamicProxy, Castle's ActiveRecord, Ayende's Rhino Mocks and several more. Should be a lot of interesting stuff 