Theme by nostrich (modified).
By Steve Mason
A common (and highly recommended) pattern when mapping collections in NHibernate is to only expose a read-only version of your collections on the object, then provide granular methods for interacting with that collection, like this pseudo-code:
public class MyEntity : Entity // provides ID etc
{
public IEnumerable<MyChild> Children;
public void AddChild(MyChild child);
public void RemoveChild(MyChild child);
}
By Steve Mason
I've always had a part-time obsession with automating my home. I remember in DT class when I was 14 my project was a prototype for a house with automated lighting - move a model person from room to room in the little balsa-wood model of a house I made and the lights went on and off!
By Steve Mason
I've been doing a bit of hacking on a nodejs project recently, and this problem left me scratching my head for a while.
By Steve Mason
Previously, I showed you how to setup node.js on Ubuntu, and hopefully OSX at the same time.
I recently needed to do some hacking on this blog on Windows, so I needed to install node on my Windows machine. Historically this hasn't been very straightforward, but using cygwin it's now possible, and even fairly easy to achieve. Don't expect *nix-like performance though, a lot of the APIs that make node so fast run a lot slower when they have to pass through cygwin's libraries.
By Steve Mason
Despite all the hype around MSDeploy in .NET 4 / VS2010, it doesn't exactly make it easy to do a traditional "Publish to filesystem" from the commandline.
By Steve Mason
I've been looking a lot at node.js recently. Being JavaScript I can apply my knowledge of the language, and start to stretch it, but being server-side and platform independant I can also start to play around with Linux and other shiny things that aren't .NET.
This post is the first in a collection on how I've migrated this blog, previously hosted on Tumblr, to be hosted on a virtual Rackspace Cloud server running Node and the Wheat blogging platform.
These instructions are specifically for the latest Ubuntu release, but I have done similar on OSX. Node isn't known to run spectacularly well on Windows mind you.
By Steve Mason
NOTE: I'm happy to say that the majority of these issues are fixed in the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTW release. I've now been using the framework in a production app for a number of months and am very happy with it - kudos to the ASP.NET MVC team for listening to community feedback! I'm keeping this post here for posterity.
I'm a big fan of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I've been using it at work since early 2008 (around preview 2) so I've become quite used to it. I particularly like that the extension points that have been opened up allow you to mould the framework to the way you want to work, rather than the other way around (*cough** WebForms *cough*).
ASP.NET MVC 2 has been out in Preview and Beta form for a while now. In fact the Release Candidate has recently been released, which means the full 'RTW' release is just around the corner. Which is a pity.
It's a pity because out of all of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 none of them are well-baked enough for me to justify upgrading to (yet I'll probably be have to). Why? Let me show you, one feature at a time.
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