What is the most cost effective way to develop C#?I use VS 2005 with R# when working with clients, but unfortunately that copy of VS 2005 is owned by my employer. The same setup at home would cost $1400+. I know there are free C# IDEs, but they all have flaws [...]
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Ruby on Rails has inspired a whole generation of MVC Web Frameworks. The RoR inspired frameworks follow the same basic design; Controllers whose public methods are web endpoints. So…Do RoR based MVC Web Frameworks encourage good design?
MonoRail and MS MVC are a part of the RoR generation.
They must. Right? I [...]
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Scott Guthrie gave us our first look at the the new Microsoft MVC framework at ALT.NET. I took special care, while watching the video, to answer one question.What, if anything, can MonoRail learn from MS MVC?
Routing - RoR and MS MVC treat Routing as a first class citizen. Routing in MonoRail [...]
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Update: Rumbster has been moved to RubyForge.What is Rumbster?Rumbster is a simple SMTP server that receives email sent from a SMTP client. Received emails are published to observers that have registered with Rumbster.Updated
Applied patch from Pat Courtney that allowed Rumbster to handle multiple emails per session.
Downloadhttp://rumbster.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/
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I want to thank the person that added my blog as a reference for MonoRail on Wikipedia. I am flattered.Thanks.
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On my last project, James and I started the slogan “No Dots”. “No Dots” reminds us that templates/views are “documents with holes” and should contain a very minimum amount of logic.
I amended the slogan to be: “Zero or One Dot”. You will see why shortly. The amended version was [...]
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We are finishing up our eight month development effort on sothebyshomes.com. Knowing what we do now, “What would we do different?”.I think most of my team would say; Dynamic Actions. What are Dynamic Actions?
Dynamic Actions are a way to associate code with a name in runtime.
What exactly does that mean? [...]
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Update: James did not think my original post was very clear (and I agreed). I hope that this new version is easier to read and understand.
We use the technique described in MonoRail: Sending Emails to send emails from our controllers. Our emails, in some cases, have many recipients in the to, [...]
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(update: Added more information to the example.)After discovering how to count an associated collection without initializing it, I wondered if it was possible to page an associated collection in Castle’s ActiveRecord.After a little searching, I found out it is possible to page a collection (and not that much different than counting an associated collection). [...]
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While trying to resolve the following exception from NHibernate, I (re)learned an important lesson in performance tuning.
Exception type: ADOExceptionException message: could not initialize a collection:
We receive the above exception when our site is under high load (topic for another post). The collection that it complains about most is the OpenHouses collection in Listing. [...]
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