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Category Archives: .net

Rails for .NET Developers: New Book Out!

Check it out.
Our friends over at Softies on Rails have put a book out that will help any .NET developer looking to work with Ruby on Rails.  The Softies crew was an early inspiration for me to try out Ruby and Mac development, and I am really happy for them that they were able [...]

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…
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 [...]

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