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ProMesh.NET v2.0 RC1 is (finally) out

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:02:46 GMT

After months of writing documentation, the first release candidate of ProMesh.NET v2.0 has been released in the wild. ProMesh.NET is a powerful MVC framework for .NET 2.0 that has been around for a long time, but today it finally reached another important milestone.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Implementing NHibernate Interceptors

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:40:14 GMT

A lesson on NHibernate interceptors.

NHibernate Ling for NHibernate 2.0 GA

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:59:44 GMT

I was hopefull that by the time 2.0 was actually released that NH.Linq would be caught up, but alas that was not the case. The reason why is that there is new, better, and refactored linq support on its way for NHibernate and is scheduled for the 2.1 version of NHibernate. That's great and all but it doesn't really help poor schmoes like me who want to use the existing linq features for now. Ok that's enough whining for now, on to the fixing.

NHibernate 2.0 Documentation Wiki

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:02:02 GMT

Fabio Maulo has created at dokumentation wiki for nhibernate 2.0 in Google Knol

AlphaVSS 0.7.0 - Bringing the Volume Shadow Copy Service to .NET

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:32:45 GMT

AlphaVSS is an open source library that provides a managed .NET interface to the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, making it possible to conveniently access and use the VSS API from within eg. C# or VB.

Finally released Comment Manager extension for BlogEngine.NET

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:20:27 GMT

I'm really pleased to announce that has been released an extension to editing ed managing comments on BlogEngine.NET. This extension is fully plug and play and it's not required any changes to core.

Subtext 2 supports OpenID

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Jon explains how OpenID works in Subtext 2 and how to configure it.

Command line option parsing using Lambda functions with NDesk.Options

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:49 GMT

I had been doing a lot of work on monodocer, and the warning about Mono.GetOptions being obsolete was getting annoying. So after killing an afternoon coming up with a similar reflection-based alternative, it dawned on me that (1) any such alternative would not be "simple", and (2) using such a library would have a high code overhead. After thinking back on the previous option parsing libraries I've used, I remembered Perl's Getopt::Long library, which permits short and concise declarations of the options a program supports.

.NET Port of Google Protocol Buffers

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:48:51 GMT

My efforts porting Google's Protocol Buffers are now pretty complete in terms of functionality, so I've been looking at improving the performance. The basic idea is that you specify your data types in a .proto file, and then generate C# from that. The generated C# allows you to manipulate the data, and serialize/deserialize it. When you generate the code, it can be optimised either for size or speed. The "small" code can end up being much smaller than the "fast" code - but it's also significantly slower as it uses reflection when serializing and deserializing.

Hanselman blogs on Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPub Server in WCF

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:09:55 GMT

It also appears that the site at http://www.blogsvc.net is also the Demo Site for BlogSvc itself! Actually, if you download the source, you're downloading the complete implementation of the BlogSvc.net website. Booyachaka. Much respect. Since the project uses Atom and AtomPub he can work against it using Windows Live Writer.

Add GeoURL Meta tags with GeoURL Extension

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:41:50 GMT

Add GeoURL Meta tags to your blog and build that local community spirit today!

Wordle Widget for your blog

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:43:01 GMT

Add Wordle to your BlogEngine.NET blog...

Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 1

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:18:44 GMT

A first part of feature comparison between the most popular DI (IoC) Frameworks: Castle, Unity, Autofac, Ninject, StructureMap and Spring.Net.

13 features I'd like to see in BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:46:15 GMT

As you probably know by now I use BlogEngine.NET as my blogging platform. In order to become more powerful engine I suggest thirteen (more or less) common features, like ability to unsubscribe from comment notifications, group comments&trackbacks and much more.

Create better experiences for your visitors

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:32:56 GMT

Create better experiences for your visitors, Extension and Widget

AnimatedCollapse Extension for Widgets

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:35:50 GMT

An updated extension for BlogEngine.NET that allows you to collapse/expand widgets.

ProMesh.NET v2.0 (MVC Framework) just around the corner

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:48:12 GMT

Time for an update on the state of ProMesh.NET, the open-source MVC Web Application framework I started a few years ago. The last public release was almost 7 months ago, and a lot has been changed since then. The original plan was to create a version 1.5, but I decided against that and made it in a full 2.0 release

BlogEngine.net Post Security

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:46:10 GMT

BlogEngine.net 1.3/1.4 supports user roles. But we can't seem to be able to make it mandatory for users to sign in to see blog posts. That's not something you usually want on a public blog, but maybe for a corporate blog.

Subtext 2.0 "Poseidon" Released!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Subtext 2.0 is hot off the CI Server and the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches.

Create alias for ICriteria in queryModel

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:06:33 GMT

I expanded the original query model of NSK, and Marco told me about a problem, when you create alias for the ICriteria object, you should not create alias for relation mapped as component. To solve this problem you can simply inspect NHibernate Mapping Metadata to know if a related object is mapped as component or is an entity.

Are we promoting Bad Code???

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:56:26 GMT

battle b/w code reusability and code quality

Paradox of Open Source Software

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:56:15 GMT

Although the availability of the source code means that everyone can make the software better, that is not always true. There are many open source applications that are simply badly written.

IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:16:12 GMT

For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and host it on github.

python ide:UliPad

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:35:43 GMT

UliPad is en editor written in python and wxPython. UliPad uses Mixin and Plugin technique as its architecture. Most of its classes can be extended via mixin and plugin components, and finally become an integrity class when creating the instance. So UliPad is very dynamic.