Gojko Adzic

I really enjoyed talking about Developing Ajax web applications with Castle Monorail yesterday at Skills Matter. It was great to see so many familiar faces — thanks for coming again and I hope that you enjoyed it as well. Here are the downloads and links that Dave and I promised to put online: Continue Reading »

In the second part of the Castle demo application tutorial, we look into the basic features of Castle’s powerful Model-View-Controller system, called Monorail. Monorail is based on Ruby on Rails, and brings two very important features to .NET web development:

1. Good separation of concerns between the domain model, workflow logic and the user interface: this allows us to unit test larger portions of web applications, makes the code more reusable and gives us flexibility for the user interface.

2. HTTP request/response plumbing, allowing us to be much more productive when developing web pages: Monorail will automatically convert HTTP request data into strongly typed function parameters, even domain objects; it provides an infrastructure for aspect-oriented request handling and reacting to errors. That allows us to focus on the business logic of the web application and skip writing boilerplate web code. Continue Reading »

Castle project is a great .NET enterprise application framework. It helps us develop .NET applications and web sites by providing the plumbing and making it easy to test the most important parts of the system. I’ve decided to build a demo application with the Castle project for an internal training session, to show how easy it is to work with this framework and to demonstrate the best practices. I will post the tutorial in parts on this web site as I develop it. In the first post, we work on the object-relational mapping with ActiveRecord and write unit tests for the database mapping layer. Continue Reading »

Alt.NET folks are organising an informal meeting after my Castle session. The first Alt.NET beers event will start at 8:30 in the Crown pub, five minutes after Skills Matter offices. For more information, see Seb’s blog post about the Beers event.

I have been using the Castle Project for about two years now, and it is definitely one of my favourite tools. It is truly a great example of how a good application framework should be written. Although all the concepts that it provides have been around for a while and became popular with other frameworks like Spring for Java or Ruby on Rails, the Castle Project brings them together in a very effective way and makes enterprise .NET development significantly easier. Continue Reading »