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The Rake’s Progress – Part II

Some things I have loved so far about working with rake/ruby: File enumeration Blending regular expressions where it makes things more readable Testability After checking out lots of other rake files, it is easy to see how much simpler ruby can make things...

Published 09-13-2009 1:56 AM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: Builds, Rake

The Rake’s Progress

I have been porting my builds from NAnt to Rake as their complexity has become unmanageable. I couldn’t recall the way I installed Ruby (and associated gems) on my Win 2K3 server and I came across a few issues that I had to resolve to get up and...

Published 09-06-2009 10:40 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: Builds, Rake

SQL Quickie - Fix case

I needed to quickly (and dirtily) transform rows which were all upper case into pascal cased, so 'I AM OPIE' become 'I Am Opie'. Here's something I found and ported to a sql function: CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Casing] (...

Published 03-27-2009 10:07 AM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: SQL

Is Excessive Mapping Of DTOs/ViewObjects to Entities A Code Smell

A recent paradigm shift I have been trying to make is to using messaging patterns in my project. One impact of this shift has been a more granular approach to various commands against the domain which somehow changes its state. While I do my best to stick...

Published 03-04-2009 11:15 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: Domain Driven Design (DDD)

MonoRail 404 Woes

Dear Mike In The Future, If it's been a while since setting up a MonoRail app from ground up, please remember to reference the following assemblies in your web project or at least include them in the /lib folder: Castle.Components.Common.EmailSender...

Published 12-20-2008 9:37 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: Castle Project, Monorail

Ordering Form Collection Parameters For MonoRail using jQuery

On my current app we are using ajax heavily for updating forms, often with the response getting injected into an table or unordered list . The entire form is then posted for the action which will actually change state in the domain. For example, say we...

Published 11-25-2008 10:37 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: Monorail, jQuery

Considerations For Using PostSharp

I recently started using PostSharp for implementing AOP into my current project. It's a great project and really simplifies some specifications we have that could have been cumbersome. Introducing this into an environment that is using NAnt and development...

Published 11-23-2008 11:19 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: AOP, PostSharp

Sorry I am so immature

From NH user group: "I have a "pepe" and I know it is not a proxy" If this doesn't belong in a software developer's adaptation of Napoleon Dynamite, I don't know what would.

Published 11-23-2008 12:12 AM by Michael Nichols

Enabling auto-detection of response type in jQuery

Sometimes you don't know what type of document the server is going to return, so it would be nice to have the ajax handler deal with the response as the server is directing it to. JQuery doesn't have this baked in (I have had a ticket for ages...

Published 10-14-2008 8:40 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: jQuery

SVN revision number discrepancy

I use VisualSVN for IDE integration of VS.NET and TortoiseSVN. While working on my build script I noticed that while fetching my svn revision number it was different than what was getting reported after a commit within the ide. I am hardly source control...

Published 09-07-2008 2:38 PM by Michael Nichols

When Flushing Goes Bad: Assigned IDs in NHibernate

I have an aggregate root that creates another persistent entity and places it in a collection. Typically, I try to avoid letting the internal id used within an aggregate boundary seep outside, but for the purpose of mapping the relevant instance to the...

Published 07-29-2008 7:24 PM by Michael Nichols

jQuery.cascade : Cascading values from forms

First, get it here ... Please leave commments/questions on jquery google group at : http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en. UPDATE: Fixed bug in ajax extension whereby it was holding a reference to previous data params. Also updated to work with jquery...

Published 05-25-2008 2:46 AM by Michael Nichols

Third Party Libraries Organization

I finally have my CI environment and am wondering what the heck took me so long to take time to get it set up. This has had me looking again at how I set my project folders up. Typically I am using the libraries from Castle/Nhib/Rhino stack and build...

Published 05-09-2008 9:46 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: Project Structure, Builds

Configuring IIS 6.0 to send mail via SMTP for asp.net applications

Enabling smtp services for IIS is well documented, but configuring in my environment was more difficult than I would have thought it would be... So this post is partly a note for me as we will be changing out gear soon. Our environment is not very exotic...

Published 05-07-2008 10:29 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS, Email

Unobtrusive Growl Messaging Using Monorail Filter

A clever plugin for jquery recently was released which is an impression of Mac's Growl. It simply displays messages for a period of time or makes them 'sticky'. It also manages multiple messages at a time very nicely and all the styling is...

Published 05-01-2008 12:51 AM by Michael Nichols

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