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More signs of FubuMVC getting real

Just launched last night: http://guides.fubumvc.com/. The main page has been around for a couple weeks now at http://fubumvc.com/. It's not that much yet, but I think the existence of *any* documentation at this point is a good indication that we're serious about making the FubuMVC reboot take...

Published Tue, Feb 9 2010 9:52 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: FubuMVC
VS 2010 RC1 available on MSDN

... and this RC1 will go public in 3 days. (if your are logged in MSDN, the link is: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx?pv=18%3a370 ) I had access to the Release Candidate 1 limited community editions for a month, and I can say that hopefully, overall stability...

Published Tue, Feb 9 2010 12:05 PM by Patrick Smacchia
Exploring MongoDB with F#

If you’ve been following me on Twitter , I’ve been digging a bit into MongoDB . When I was involved with the planning of NoSQLEast this past year, I sat down and used it in anger and was quite pleased with the results. Using it with a language which allows for quick prototyping such as F#...

Published Tue, Feb 9 2010 1:15 AM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: F#, LINQ, NOSQL
Using and Abusing the F# Dynamic Lookup Operator

Lately, I’ve been playing with such things as MongoDB using F# to rapidly prototype ideas. With that, I’ve tried to rid myself of magic strings by using the F# dynamic lookup operator. I’ll cover exactly what I’m doing in the next post when using MongoDB, but in this post I’d like to explore...

Published Fri, Feb 5 2010 4:18 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: F#
Scoop: Reflector v6 pro RTM to be released by the 15th of this month

This is really exciting time these days. Most of .NET tooling vendors are about to provide a major upgrade of their products within the next weeks. And Reflector is part of the lot! A brand new version, Reflector v6, is about to be go live RTM on Monday 15th of February 2010 . This will be the first...

Published Fri, Feb 5 2010 4:38 PM by Patrick Smacchia
StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released!

Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s been almost a year since I’ve made an official StructureMap release, so I guess it’s about time. This morning I uploaded the binaries for the 2.6 release . This release just adds some bug fixes and a couple minor additions to the 2.5.4 release...

Published Thu, Feb 4 2010 10:14 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap
Business Primitives (2/2)

Ok, so now that we have talked about the Business Primitive concept lets go through some of the actual examples. Let's take an example of a 'Loan' class. public class Loan { public int Id { get; set; } public int InterestRate { get; set; } public DateTime TradedOn { get; set; } public DateTime...

Published Thu, Feb 4 2010 5:18 AM by drusellers

Filed under: Small Ideas
Getting StructureMap off SourceForge, Thoughts?

The original discussion for this topic is here: http://groups.google.com/group/structuremap-users/browse_thread/thread/6d579f4e9b508c66 All, I've never liked SourceForge and it's a PITA for me to use even though it's gotten better over the years. I'd like to move StructureMap off SourceForge...

Published Wed, Feb 3 2010 5:29 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: StructureMap
An introduction to iptables

iptables is a linux application that allows you to configure the built-in linux firewall. There are abstraction layers built on top of it, including nice GUIs, but I recently had some very basic rules I wanted to implement, and figured I'd learn how to do it directly in iptables. It turned out to...

Published Wed, Feb 3 2010 9:36 AM by karl
Life outside .NET, or “How to check out your neighbours”

The hillbilly be all Java’d up these days. For coming on three weeks, I’ve been the lone developer on a project based on Google Web Toolkit . It’s a web framework (naturally) that allows developers to build applications in Java and compiles it down to JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Scoff all you want, if...

Published Tue, Feb 2 2010 9:34 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Java, GWT
FubuMVC Learns to Speak Spark

From Robert the Grey, FubuMVC learns to speak Spark . I've done the nearly solo OSS thing a couple times to mixed results. I'm painfully aware that good OSS projects have a deeper community of contributors than just one guy, and that's why I'm so thrilled to see this addition come into...

Published Tue, Feb 2 2010 12:59 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: FubuMVC
A Kick in the Monads – Writer Edition

In the past couple of Monads posts, we’ve talked briefly about the State and Reader Monads and their potential uses and misuses. Before this series completes, I have a few more to cover including the Writer, Continuation and eventually Observable monad. Today, we’ll get started looking at...

Published Mon, Feb 1 2010 11:59 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: F#, Functional Programming, Haskell
Exporting dynamically changing configuration values

In my last post I discussed how to export configuration. A follow up question in the comments was “What if the values change?” Meaning the values that are exported using the approach I illustrated are static. In the real world however values often can change based on some user setting etc. A variant...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 1:45 PM by Glenn Block

Filed under: MEF
From Hyper-V back (?) to Virtual PC

For over a year I have been using Server 2008, 64 bits, as OS for my laptop . The main reason for this platform was Hyper-V. Almost every other project I’ve been working on needs another virtual server. And each location I am working has a different network. With Hyper-V both switching servers...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 2:56 PM by pvanooijen
Dovetail is Hiring

This is a different project than the one we hired for last time. If you've spoken to us before, please consider this position separately. We're expanding the development team on our line of existing products. You'll be working on a small team that develops applications for large businesses...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 4:17 PM by Jeremy D. Miller