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Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:13 PM

Stormwind.Accuracy 0.3.0 - GRAB WHILE IT'S HOT

Hey my three readers? How have you guys been? Hope you're good! :) It's that time again! The time when I come back from a long "non-writing" period. Usually when I'm not writing blog posts it means I'm working on something. This time I've been working
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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:18 AM

Stormwind Project - Maturity Point

I've been doing Stormwind work since 4th September, 2007 . The projects we are managing in Stormwind started around the beginning of 2006, though. It's been a very rewarding experience all over. When we started (me and Claudio Figueiredo ), we were not
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:08 PM

WCF Service Extreme Make-over - Part 3

IMPORTANT: It's really important that you read part 1 and part 2 before reading Part 3. I'll assume you did, so a lot might not make any sense unless you've read it. Introduction So in the previous two posts, we've established how we wanted to use and
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:01 PM

WCF Service Extreme Make-over - Part 2

IMPORTANT: It's really important that you read this post before reading Part 2. I'll assume you did, so a lot might not make any sense unless you've read it. Introduction Ok, in last post we decided on the following desired features for our WCF Services:
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:01 PM

Have control over both ends for WCF Service? Or just enforcing security and behavior? - WCF Service Extreme Make-Over Part 1

Introduction So, WCF is a pretty standard way of using remote calls in .Net at this point. The general usage pattern that we've seen around is: Create a WCF Service Application (usually ASP.Net) to be the host Create the service contract Implement the
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:28 PM

Asp.Net Action Filters - Can't test them? Stormwind comes to your help!

Once more my friend Claudio Figueiredo amazed me coming up with a brilliant solution to a problem that was starting to shadow an otherwise brilliant implementation of the MVC Pattern. The new ASP.Net MVC Framework allows you to specify Action Filters.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:47 PM

Expression Tree + Reflection + C# 3.5

I've been trying to do something like this since C# 1.1. Tonight I got to do it: SomeCode.DoSomethingInProperty(cust => cust.Orders); My problem has always been that I couldn't (using delegates before) get what property you want to use. I could resort
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:20 PM

That's the company I work for - WOW!

My good friend Claudio Figueiredo just pointed me in the direction of this pearl . Things like that look like just some random guys in ThoughtWorks being funny, but it isn't. I have worked for TW for 5 months now, and I don't see myself working for another
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Monday, June 30, 2008 12:01 PM

Want to check ASP.Net MVC out?

My good friend Claudio Figueiredo is writing a superb series on all sorts of stuff on the new ASP.Net MVC. I definitely advise anyone interested in it to check the posts out. So far he's blogged the following posts: ASP.Net MVC Experiences ASP.NET MVC
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:17 PM

NRoR or IronRoR?

Now that 's good news! #159
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:04 PM

Asp.Net MVC Release 3

Yes, I am late in my blog reading, but I gotta tell you guys, after reading Scott Gu's blog post on Asp.Net MVC I was more impressed than I imagined I would be ( read it here ). There are so many features I'd love to have at the projects I'm working on
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:00 AM

Table Height of 100%?

Want to have a table with 100% height and not sure how to do it? JQuery comes to the rescue!!! Just do it like this: < html > < head > < script type ="text/javascript" src ="yourScriptPath/jquery-1.2.6.min.js" ></ script > <script>
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:49 AM

Stormwind.NMVP

This week I learned that there are still people using NMVP, which is really cool. One of those people asked me if I would release another version of NMVP soon. Well, I'm not sure how soon, but there are plans of releasing an improved version of NMVP.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:27 PM

2 more releases - Stormwind.NAnt

Releases 0.2.0.0 and 0.2.1.0 of Stormwind.NAnt are out! You can check the releases , and release notes for 0.2.0.0 and 0.2.1.0 . These releases build on the foundation of Stormwind.NAnt to add two nice methods to it: WithNAntExe and WithWorkingDirectory.
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Monday, May 26, 2008 10:50 PM

Heavyweight champion for Stormwind and Stormwind.NAnt

Stormwind gets another sponsor We just got another heavyweight sponsor, and this time it's literal: Atlassian is our new sponsor. These guys make amazing software, some of which you might know: Jira , Confluence , FishEye and others . They are not just
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:27 PM

Stormwind.Svn

Introduction Ever wondered how to connect to a Subversion repository using .Net? So do we! I'm working in a project that needs SVN Connectivity features. "How hard could it be, right?" was my first thought, before spending the next 2 days trying to figure
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:27 PM

CI All Around

My good friend, Claudio Figueiredo , reminded me that I shouldn't choose a tool that's so important to us without trying a few of them (god damn you for giving me more work, though, lol). So I decided on trying JetBrains TeamCity , as JetBrains has been
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:03 PM

Stormwind.Accuracy, Using Accuracy and a Build Server made of Bamboo

More exciting news today! Another Release of Accuracy This one is just a refactoring release (moved some actions to the correct namespace). The new version is 0.1.1.20 and you can get it here: binaries and references . Using Accuracy Today I've started
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:57 AM

Accuracy and using.stormwindproject.org

Well I have some good news today! Accuracy 0.1.0.18 First, Accuracy has reached a point where we can release it. Version 0.1.0.18 ( binaries and references ) is just out of the oven. Get it while it's hot! This version includes several syntax improvements,
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:03 PM

Not sure which CI Server to use?

We've been using CruiseControl.Net for our builds in Stormwind Project . Even though I like CCNet a lot, it's coming to the point where we need more from our CI Server. We were going to build this ourselves as plug-ins for CCNet. That's a lot of work
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:36 PM

Looking for a VPS Hosting?

KickAssVPS is an active sponsor of Stormwind Project . Without their support much of what we do would be impossible. My post is not about their attitude towards us, which is by itself amazing, since they are granting us expensive resources (A VPS with
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:14 PM

Mingle and Open Source

Introduction We just started using Mingle to manage Stormwind Projects , as a way to get more organized and keep going forward at a steady rate. I expected it to be a little rough around the edges, because I've only used the 1.0 version of Mingle . Boy,
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:15 PM

JsUnit + Accuracy

After I got my tests passing in JsUnit , I decided I needed to automate the execution of the JavaScript Unit Tests for Fjords(more on that in a later post). So, the only way I could think of doing that was to drive the browser to the JsUnit Test Runner
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Friday, May 09, 2008 11:30 PM

JSUnit

These days I've been doing more and more JScript, thanks to JQuery and ExtJs . I've been moving more and more of the application logic to the client side. That has some advantages and some disadvantages, which are clearly out of the scope of this post.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:39 PM

ExtJs + Monorail + Community Contributions = Success!

I tend to write titles using additions and equals... Hmm... Guess I like simple math... Who knows? Anyway, I want to stress out today how cool I find Monorail right now! I always thought it was a cool framework, but after I wired my controllers through
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