Continuous Integration is a good practice in software development. It helps catch problems early to prevent them from becoming bigger problems later. It helps to reinforce other practices like frequent checkins and unit testing as well. I'm using CruiseControl (CC) for Continuous Integration at the moment. One of the things about ...

ObjectBuilder is a .NET framework made for building Inversion of Control or Dependency Injection containers. Unlike Spring or Pico, ObjectBuilder is not a full DI framework, instead it's a framework for building DI solutions. Yes, that's incredibly weird to me too. Why Use Object Builder? Why would you use ObjectBuilder instead of ...

It's time to end the debate between "Just simple CRUD Apps" and "more complex" apps. Very complex behavior can be expressed through a small set of fairly simple rules. This is often described as emergent behavior or just emergence. The general idea is that simple building blocks can construct complex ...

I use a VPS hosted by SliceHost as my personal server. SliceHost uses Xen to host multiple instances of Linux on a single machine. The performance of this setup has been very good. I have been running: Apache 2.2 with PHP MySQL 5 Postfix Mail Server Courier IMAP Server ssh for remote access of course I recently ...

REST is becoming more popular as a means of implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) as well as merely providing simple remote APIs for interacting with systems. The main reason for this is that it provides a very simple means of creating and consuming Services. Contrasted to SOA implementations like SOAP ...

Ruby on Rails is implemented as the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. This pattern separates the context of the Web Application (in the Controller and the View) from the core Model of the application. The Model contains the Domain objects which encapsulate business logic, data retrieval, etc. The View displays ...

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 today. It does't really seem like there are a lot of new user-visible features, but they are really starting to make more regular releases, so we should see more gradual improvements. One of the good features is better support for the One True Syndication Format Atom. ...

Ruby on Rails 1.2 added full support for building RESTful services to the already nice web page support. REST is a conceptually simple idea, yet incredibly powerful. REST is a Web based API to an application. It builds on the basic building blocks of HTTP: URLs and HTTP Methods (think ...

What is SQLCE? SQL Compact Edition is the "low end" version of a SQL database solution from Microsoft. It is a single-file, application managed, database implementation. It doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of the high end database solutions. This is great when you realize the next lowest version, ...

I just ran across a new Google product (new to me at least). Google Notebook is a tool that allows you to store notes and snippets on a web page for later use. The Notebook can have multiple notebooks in it for different topics, and section headers within a notebook ...