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title: "My homework for the next year"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/26/my-homework-for-the-next-year.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/26/my-homework-for-the-next-year.html"
published: "2007-10-26T17:54:02"
updated: "2007-10-26T17:54:02"
tags: ["General Software Devel...", "altnet", "altnetconf"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here are the things that are burning in my head these days, screaming at me to go through them and grok them to a point where I don't feel stupid talking about them too much: NHibernate+ ActiveRecord and LLBLGen Try to…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# My homework for the next year

By Roy Osherove October 26, 2007 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel), [altnet](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnet), [altnetconf](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnetconf)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 26, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

Here are the things that are burning in my head these days, screaming at me to go through them and grok them to a point where _I_ don't feel stupid talking about them too much:

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/ec0c_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_Myhomeworkforthenextyear_1AB3_image_thumb.png)

- [NHibernate+ ActiveRecord](http://www.castleproject.org/) and [LLBLGen](http://www.llblgen.com/)
- Try to see if you can implement [Hibernate Shards](http://www.hibernate.org/414.html) in NHibernate
- [Spring.NET](http://www.springframework.net/)
- [BOO and Boo DSLs](http://boo.codehaus.org/)
- [Windsor Containers](http://www.castleproject.org/)
- [MVC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller) and [MVP](http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/ModelViewPresenter.html) patterns implemented in .NET
- [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/) and [IronRuby](http://www.iunknown.com/2007/04/introducing_iro.html)\\[Ruby in Steel](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/) (whatever works for .NET)
- Take a good look at [RetLang](http://code.google.com/p/retlang/)\\[Erlang](http://www.erlang.org/)
- [F#](http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/)
- [Pex](http://research.microsoft.com/Pex/) (when it comes out)
- WCF\\WPF in depth

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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