Category Archives: Web

DRYing Grails Criteria Queries

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Geoff Lane

When you’re writing code, Don’t Repeat Yourself. Now say that 5 times. *rimshot* One of the things that I find myself repeating a lot of in many business apps is queries. It’s common to have a rule or filter that … Continue reading →

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Using Quartz.NET, Spring.NET and NHibernate to run Scheduled Tasks in ASP.NET

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Running scheduled tasks in web applications is not normally a straightforward thing to do. Web applications are built to respond to requests from users and respond to that request. This request/response lifecycle doesn’t always match well to a long running … Continue reading →

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CruiseControl With a Specific Version of Grails

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Geoff Lane

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) … Continue reading →

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Integrating ObjectBuilder with ASP.NET

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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All Database Backed Web Apps are “Just CRUD Apps”

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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Mongrel Cluster and Apache Need Memory

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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Interact with REST Services from the Command Line

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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Making Session Data Available to Models in Ruby on Rails

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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RESTful Rails for Ajax

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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Using SQL Compact Edition Under ASP.NET

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Geoff Lane

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 … Continue reading →

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