http://www.dllhell.net Where bad assemblies go when they die... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My recent experiences with Ruby's Rake have me interested in non-XML DSL usage. Boo seems to be emerging as the language of choice for building a DSL in .NET (IronRuby will surely follow suit). My most recent Code Voyeur article is my first attempt at building a non-XML ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/06/26/on-a-boo-dsl-for-transforming-objects-to-rss/ pre {font-size:11px;} I realize it's not popular to champion anything XML these days, but I have to admit I've recently become a fan of NAnt. I understand the criticisms. I won't argue that <fileset id="assemblies"> <include name="**/*.dll" /> </fileset> is better than assemblies = FileList['*.dll']I freely acknowledge that a ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/06/12/on-nant-really-being-a-neat-tool/ I host dllhell.net at WebFaction. They're a shared Linux host that I use for this blog and my non-ASP.NET experiments. I moved this blog there after my well documented troubles with this site when hosted at Ultima Hosts. On Saturday, I noticed the site was down. ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/06/02/on-shared-hosting-part-iv/ I tend to agree with those who believe that a good ORM will give you 90% of what you need. For me, with NHibernate and ActiveRecord it's been closer to 95%. The remaining 5% tends to involve getting a DbConnection instance and executing some legacy stored procedure or ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/05/27/on-activerecord-and-mysql-full-text-search/ I hope this is my last post on shared Windows hosting for a while (unless I have a lot of good things to say about my new host). It's still a little early to have a strong opinion one way or another about WebHost4Life, but I thought I'd throw ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/05/14/on-shared-hosting-part-iii/ Finding reliable shared Windows hosting is much harder than it should be. I've been through a few over the past several years. I've more or less become a hosting Sherpa for my friends, family and co-workers. I test the waters and they follow when I say it's ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/05/08/on-shared-hosting-part-ii/ Update 5/7: After all of the downtime w/ MySQL, my host just went offline for an hour or so. Just keeps getting better... Update 5/7: This posting was moved from a temporary space setup due to the issue described below... I'm back on my original database server, planning ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/05/07/on-shared-hosting-part-i/ Continuing with my "IronPython will end world hunger series," I'm again shamelessly self/cross-promoting a Code Voyeur article that I think it's worth a read. A Simple IronPython Dependency Injection Framework It's not Spring.NET and it's not Windsor, but I really like the idea of configuring objects with IronPython rather than XML. Enjoy! ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/04/16/on-a-simple-ironpython-dependency-injection-framework/ I do try to keep the content between Code Voyeur and dll Hell distinct. OK, there's not much content on either... But I think my latest (up to 4!, that's 4 not 4 factorial) article on Code Voyeur is a pretty neat idea. Shameless cross-promotion link below: A ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/04/08/on-a-simple-ironpython-validation-framework/ First, I get the irony of posting this on a blog engine written in PHP... In the past month or two, I've had to dig into the sources for a few different PHP projects. It's not been fun... Though I'm admittedly ignorant about PHP's various MVC frameworks, none ... http://www.dllhell.net/index.php/2008/04/05/on-pretty-horrible-programming/