I would like your ideas on composite application architecture that you mention in http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/07/23/feature-by-feature.aspx

from: jyoung1024

Using NHibernate with CQS architecture style

I'd love to see a tutorial on how *you* typically start from a blank solution and get to a stubbed-out web application. What projects do you create in what order? What dependencies do you take by default? Basically from Start to Hello World, the Ayende way.

I know many things vary from project to project, but you must have a general process that you follow repeatedly, right?

I enjoyed the presentation you did at NDC 09 on building scalable systems. I especially like the real world scalability examples you gave. I think this is a very interesting topic personally.

How do you manage your dependencies? One of my projects depends on NH, Castle+Contrib, Rhino, Json.Net and more. After manually copy-pasting everything for months, I ended up making my first rake file for building and copying. It's really ugly, but it does the job.

Do you use Horn? Rake? Or boo scripts? Manually?

Thanks for your insights and take care!

With Bob Martin's recent post triggering a renewed discussion about IoC patterns and anti-patterns, many of us down-to-earth developers, are left confused. I for one would really welcome some guidance on how to _properly_ set up IoC in a real-world project ("with only 10 lines of code", as Ayende stated in a recent post).

I enjoyed both the Nerd Dinner and Kobe reviews. I would really like to know what you think about S#arp Architecture - How about it?

-What tools do you use on a regular basis and couldn't live without? (resharper?, notepad2?, evernote?, etc...)

Howto, how can people use it in their products

I'd like to see more examples of how to migrate a legacy application, using sprocs and Enterprise Library, to NHibernate. I assume that it would be little by little, starting with loading the existing sprocs with Nhib, and then migrating to Criteria queries, etc.

I believe it would be very useful as there are not many books about nhibernate and usually are for older version. Ayende can write a very interesting and helpful book as he is one of the developers of nhibernate.

I would be interested to know how you organize your time and life to accomplish so much stuff in so little time. Is it all existing knowledge and skill, or what else?

I have been contributing heavily to horn which is trying to take the pain out of getting and building open source projects and more importantly their dependencies. http://code.google.com/p/hornget/

rhino.pht as cache in a messaging environment
your insight of how to design messages

It would be interesting to see a blog or series of blogs about how to deal with NHibernate performance issues if they arise after the app is deployed to production.

Just like in the title. Why (if?) nhibernate is better than linq to sql. What should matter while deciding what to choose?