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April 2007 - Posts

Windsor Container Property Setter Injection
Hammet pointed out in the comments for Creating a simple Windsor facility that the whole premise of my TimeServiceFacility is silly. Sorry, but I still don't get it why you used a facility to do that. You could get the same behavior by - registering the Read More...
Entity Framework Designer Will Not Be In Orcas RTM
We just got confirmation today from the ADO.Net team over at Microsoft that the EDM Designer will not be in the Orcas RTM bits. Had I been more diligent in reading their blog posts I would have noticed this earlier: EDM Wizard and Designer Featured in Read More...
Monorail Screencasts
Colin Ramsay just posted an excellent series of screencasts on Monorail to the Castle Project Users google group. He basically prepared the content of my talk at Austin CodeCamp for me so thank you Colin I owe you big! Keep the great screencasts coming. Read More...
Subversion and Certificate Authorities
As I mentioned before we recently changed the URL of our subversion repository. We wanted to have a URL via SSL where our code could live for awhile. So I ventured over to InstantSSL.com and grabbed a 2 year certificate updated our DNS and life is good. Read More...
Code Formatting Plugin for Live Writer
I use Windows Live Writer for composing my blog posts. Gary Sherman just showed me his handy plug-in for formatting code in Live Writer. I got jealous so I looked into what was out there. The CodeFormatterPlugIn ( english translation - download ) is the Read More...
Creating a simple Windsor facility
Update: What this facility accomplishes is easily done using property setter injection in Windsor. Please use this post only as an example for creating a basic, yet misguided, facility. Windsor is an excellent inversion of control (IoC) container. Besides Read More...
Google Notebook
In preparation for my CodeCamp talk on MonoRail I have started using Google Notebook , and it's excellent accompanying Firefox extension , to compile an outline and notes on supporting materials for my presentation. At this point I am just playing with Read More...
How to change the URL of your SVN repository
We just changed our Subversion repository's url from something terrible with custom port number hideousness to a URL so clean, concise and georgeous that I became brain damaged. The old URL still works but I wanted to repoint all my checked out code to Read More...