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Category Archives: .net

Do you miss ASP.NET? Try the Acts as ASP.NET Rails Pluging

Hilarious code comedy from Rails Jedi
My favorite:
“Viewstate is back. Now new and improved on top of Rails. acts_as_aspdotnet overrides form_tag to put a hidden variable that contains loads of crucial processing data on every postback that will fill your server pipes with more glorious bandwidth.”

Prediction: Google will out flank, disrupt, and split Microsoft apart

I am seeing things in the marketplace that make me believe that Google will in fact out flank Office and disrupt Microsoft to a degree that few expected just a year ago.
First of all, there is a drum beating in the media for an epic battle between Mister Softie and Google. The article this [...]

Funny: Ruby vs. NET

These guys crack me up. Good stuff…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99EHyG2jQA

Ruby vs. .NET Video

Converting from ASP.NET to Rails: Part 2

This is part 2 in a series of articles on converting both your mindset and your ASP.NET web sites to Rails. Inside I hope to help anyone coming from a .NET background that is looking to create new Rails apps, or migrating existing ones.
Before we go forward, I assume that you have [...]

Converting and migrating a web application from ASP.NET / C# to Ruby on Rails: Part 1 of ?

Folks,
I’ve had it with ASP.NET.
I had a simple missing tag on a Master page (I think VS2005 conveniently erased my form tag because I was trying to actually do something nifty), and it blew up our company web page.
I am going to convert http://www.ltech.com to Ruby on Rails from ASP.NET 2.0 / C#.
Ltech.com is a [...]

A Series of Unforunate log4net events: logging hostname in log4net with AdoNetAppender

This post needs to be reformatted. Blogger munged my code when I pasted it in. If anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know.I have a love hate relationship with log4net. Amazingly powerful and simple logging. Frustratingly sparse documentation if you do anything outside of the norm.
Anyway, we need to log the hostname [...]