A few months ago I decided that it’s time to learn a new programming language that’s completely outside my normal frame of reference. After watching a video on InfoQ about the future of programming languages, I decided Clojure would make an interesting choice. I bought the Pragmatic Programmer book, and what can I say, we’ve […]

Okay, just some random nigglies I’m experiencing and sort of solved, working with ServiceStack, Backbone.js, Mono & Mono-Develop on Mac. MonoDevelop & XSP dev web server Not sure who else is experiencing this issue, but my MonoDevelop and XSP dev web server gets confused sometimes, after a while. I launch two projects when I click […]

Let me quickly explain Ruby‘s dynamic object creation. When I talk about dynamic object creation, I’m referring to when you instantiate a new object instance from meta-data using a class (also referred to a as a Type in .NET) name, or class meta-data object. In languages like C#, and Java you will use reflection to […]

So I’ve been using Fluent NHibernate for a short while now. Initially I had to overcome some minor challenges, but since I got those out of the way it’s been pretty smooth sailing. One thing that stands out, which required more tinkering and timeshare than I would’ve liked is the way NHibernate handles the .NET […]

Over the past month I ventured deep into the alternative side of the .NET web world. I took quite a few web frameworks for a test drive, including OpenRasta, Nancy, Kayak and ServiceStack. All of the aforementioned supports Mono, except OpenRasta, that has it on its road-map. While kicking the tires of each framework, some […]