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Our CoolStorage ORM has been around for quite a while, but I felt that it was particularly useful as a data access layer on smaller scale applications and mobile devices running .NET (or some flavor of it). Not everybody needs a massive (*) data access layer like Entity Framework or NHibernate. About a year ago [...]

I’ve been developing iPhone apps for the past 9 months using the recommended development tools, being Xcode, Interface Builder and the iPhone SDK. Being a C# .NET programmer didn’t make this easy: Objective-C is… weird and… primitive. Dealing with pointers after 10 years of focusing on problems instead of memory addresses is a slight culture [...]

It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET (“cool” open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn’t mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version [...]