26
Aug
2010
Caching Interceptor with Windsor
I am currently building a web application on the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework, I think its a great framework for MVC. However I am using a couple of other frameworks including Castle Windsor to look after my objects. I noticed I had some functions Read more
13
Aug
2010
Using DataAnnotations with NHibernate
There are many validation frameworks the main one is NHibernate Validator, which uses its own set of Attributes. I wanted to use the DataAnnotation Attributes as they are supported by Asp.Net MVC out the box. Im sure there are some solutions for th Read more
23
Jun
2010
Whiteboard Released
Whiteboard is a chat web application, consider it a proof of concept. The goal of this project was to design and implement a web application using Design Patterns and Open Source FrameworksTechnology StackNHibernate (using Linq to NHibernate)FluentNH Read more
06
Apr
2010
Nhibernate: Self Reference Object
I needed to see if i could make an object which references another instance of the same class.Here is a quick example (Im using FluentNhibernate) of a Staff class, each staff member can have a manager, and they can have a number of report's This lead Read more
26
Mar
2010
TinyPlug Released
An initial release of TinyPlug is out!you may be asking what is that.. Well its a small plug-in manager. It was born due to a side project requiring a simple plug-in mechanism.It’s not in competition with any other manager, and should not be mistaken Read more
14
Apr
2009
Struture of a Unit Test
A Test fixture can be made of the followingFixture (optional)FixtureSetUp - this is ran once before all the tests (set up the fixture)FixtureTearDown - run after all the tests have completed (this can be used to clean up after all the tests)SetUp - r Read more
11
Jan
2009
DotDiff, my first open source project
I have written code for open source before, but this is my first full (small) project which I have released.Presenting, Pause for effect, DotDiff, (first day see's 12 downloads!)If you remember the sandbox compare tool I wrote way back last year, I h Read more
30
May
2008
Generate Xpath from the XmlNode
when programming with old school .net XPath, you may have a instance of a XmlNode/XmlElement, and require its ABSOLUTE path. well here is a possible solution:;Sample Xml;<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.c Read more
17
Mar
2008