Jul
17
2008
We are organising a gathering of Alt.Net enthusiasts on the 31st this month at Skills Matter offices. We’ll do seven talks in total with beer and pizza during the break, and then go out for beers and socialising. Here’s the programme for the talks:
NHibernate - Ian Cooper
PowerShell - Zi Makki
OpenRasta - Sebastian Lambla
Castle Windsor - Mike Hadlow
Rhino Mocks - Chris Roff
NServiceBus - David De Florinier
Subversion - Gojko Adzic
The event is free but the number of places is limited. Apparently about half of the places are already taken and Skills Matter have not yet started to advertise it seriously, so if you were planning to come to the event make sure to register soon. For more info and to register click here.
See you on 31st.
Jul
09
2008
Simplified calls to remote services are among the most useful features of the Java Spring framework. In .NET, I use Castle for the application framework wiring and I was looking for something similar — it turns out that remote proxy calls are incredibly simple with Castle as well. Continue Reading »
Jun
13
2008
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 »
Jun
13
2008
Mike Stockdale just released a new version of FitNesse.NET. The new features in this release mostly expand the domain adapter functionality, allowing programmers to map fixtures directly to domain objects and write less code. For more information, see release notes.
May
26
2008
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 »