As a freelancer who is constantly selling his skills on the free market, I always have to be up to date and keep myself informed about the latest technologies - at least cursory. Although you easily can go overboard with that, not doing it is just not an option, if you have to maintain your competence. Continuous learning and continuous improvement are integral parts of a software developer's professional life, and this post is about what I do for it and how I handle it...
NHibernate uses lazy loading by default, which is generally a good thing. But when applied to polymorphic objects, this can lead to unexpected behaviour and serious problems - the first two parts of this series talked about that. This post - together with its predecessor - demonstrates a technique to make NH create lazy-loading proxies for a concrete subclass instead of for an abstract superclass, thus avoiding some quite nasty, hard-to-debug and hard-to-understand pitfalls...