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 »

One of the best things about Castle Monorail MVC engine is that it allows us to test controllers from the IDE, without actually deploying anything to the web server. A major problem with most web development environments, including classic ASP.NET, is that the workflow and session logic can only be tested through the UI. User interface testing is slow, pain to maintain and generally does not pay off as much as code unit tests do. Monorail’s programming model allows us to test workflow and session logic from the code, leaving only the actual rendering outside the reach of unit tests. That is how Monorail empowers us to really apply agile principles to web development, and saves us even more time and effort. Continue Reading »

This may be a bit on short notice, but we are organising a follow-up to the Castle talk from a few weeks ago on the 12th. The talk will be focused on Developing Ajax Web applications with Castle Monorail and the best practices for developing web 2.0 applications with Castle. The talk will take place in Skills Matter offices on the 12th of June — participation is free but you’ll have to register upfront. See Skills Matter page on the event for more details.

In the third part of the Castle tutorial, we look into the features of Monorail that allow us to save a lot of time and effort when developing web applications. We explore advanced Monorail concepts that help us delegate error processing and authentication to the framework and reuse templates. We also look into how Monorail integrates nicely with ActiveRecord to automatically load and modify database objects based on HTML forms. Continue Reading »

It was a great pleasure to do the talk on Agile Web Development with the Castle Project tonight at Skills Matter — judging by the number of people that turned up, this is a very interesting topic and I’m sorry that we did not get through the entire thing (thanks to London underground for delaying everything with their famous signaling problems). If you were at the presentation, and are interested in attending one more talk on Windsor or Ajax Monorail capabilities, please drop an e-mail to people at Skills Matter and ask for another session, I’d be more than happy to do it.

The recording of the session should be online soon at the Skills Matter site. Meanwhile, here are the slides and some links that you might want to visit next:

• powerpoint slides from the presentation
• Castle project homepage
• Page controller pattern explanation from MSDN
• Velocity template engine language guide
• Castle demo application #2: Monorail basics
• Castle demo application #1: ActiveRecord basics