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Ok, it's not really about getting dasBlog to work with MonoRail, but really remembering that web.config has a cascading effect on sub applications in IIS. I had two bugs today the first of which took a long time to find, but both related...

CloudSH.com went into alpha last night, read more about it here.

One thing I'm going start doing when starting a new project is to initially create a directory for compiled 3rd party libraries in the new projects root. Maybe one for debug builds and one for release builds. Doing this will save a lot o...

I just finished reading My Startup Life by Ben Casnocha. It an interesting and enjoyable read. It’s a mix of his story and insights and learnings from along the way. The insights and learnings are in side bars, which I found distractin...

I'm working with the Prototype JS library classes, which I'm really liking. But I ran into one stumbling block, Binding. In JS the scope in which your function can be called can change and as such the 'this' object can change. The main p...

I’m checking out the Facebook.NET libraries, and find the documentation to be very lacking. I could be looking in the wrong places. Anyway, to setup the configuration section, you need to reference the FacebookNET.Web.dll. Then in your c...

I'm a big fan of the CastleProject.org stack, but the MicroKernel really shows it's strength when you need to do a couple of custom things, and find out that the customization is really easy, and intuitive. Setting up a facility to add a...

Continuing from my previous post... Using Custom Dependency Resolvers and Sub Kernels. I think this is more of an edge case, but the fact that I can be done really easily is where the Castle strength is. First, I see two nice things abou...

Some notes about using enums as flags in C#. Use the FlagsAttribute on you enum. Have a None option set to 0. Have the first option start at 1, and each next value should be 2 times the previous one (I wonder what that pattern is called)...

I guess it makes sense, that an interface is implemented, not inherited, but I think it's confusing that interfaces are ignored when searching for custom attributes, using the GetCustomAttributes methods. Attributes shouldn’t be thought ...

I setup windows live writer today. I really like posting using this over the web interface. Not sure how to tag my posts yet... Oh, found it. At the bottom of the writer interface there is a categories list you can select your tags. You ...

I’m setting up GIT. So far I’m liking it. To exclude files and directories I added the following to the .git/info/exclude file. build_ReSharper**.user*.resharper*.suobinobj These sites have been helpful in getting started. http://lwn.net...

I know tons of people have already posted their global ignores list, but here’s mine: */bin */obj *.user *.suo *.webinfo bin obj *.dll *.pdb *.exe  _ReSharper* */_ReSharper* *.resharper *.DLL http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ – Tortois...

More refactoring and support added for SQLite. There are now two IS3Service implementations, one using Amazons S3 and one using SQLite locally. This allows for easier testing (and free) testings and just a config change to your IoC confi...

I did some major refactoring to the AwsS3Library including renaming it to NS3Library and setting up a new project at http://code.google.com/p/ns3library/ The major changes were around adding interfaces to the public objects to allow diff...

Today I moved from Castle Project RC3 to Trunk there were a couple changes that I needed to make. The IFilter interface has changed, The ExecuteEnum has changed to ExecuteWhen. The IRailsEngineContext name has changed to IEngineContext. ...

Templates When sending an email using RenderMessageAndSend the following will be parsed for the message and removed what’s left is sent as the body. from: name <address> or addressto: address,addresscc: address,addressbcc: address...

I’m really liking the unit test support in the Castle Monorail project. Here’s an example to create a simple test for testing filters. [TestFixture]public class AdminAuthorizationFilterTest : BaseControllerTest{ private Controller _c...

Opps, I guess there’s already some documentation on Testing Filters here. There is a lot of good info on the using.castleproject.org site, I’ll be checking and adding info there.

I’m working with the Amazon Simple DB web service. It stores everything in strings as such I needed to store a DateTime in ISO 8601 format for later sorting the strings in correct order. The frameworks has at least three formating string...

I finally spent two minutes to create a view.brail VS template today. It’s really basic, but at least I won’t end up with a class definition every time I try to add a new view. Below is the zip file, just drop in into My Documents\Visual...

Posted updates and fixes to the AwsS3Library. Added support for AwsBucket Contents to be parsed when getting a bucket. AwsBucket bucket = _service.Get(new AwsBucket("somebucket"));foreach (AwsObjectKey awsObjectKey in bucket.AwsObjectKey...

I spent some time today setting up OpenId in Monorail using ExtremeSwank OpenId consumer library. I went with a view component that can be on every page and a login controller to handle the authenticate and logout functions. This code is...

Today I needed to unit test a method that checked for and required a specific attribute on the class. I ended up with a fairly simple solution, the decorator pattern. Simply create a decorator for the type that needs the attribute, put t...

Warning: off topic rant, sorry. If you are going to buy anything from Circuit City be warned that you will be dealing with either lying or ignorant and lazy sales people and rude customer service. Recently on two different occasions I bo...