Gone

I’ll be gone on vacation for two weeks starting today (yeah!). So don’t be surprised if I don’t respond to e-mail as fast as usual.
If you have any question or problem with Castle Generator, you can contact Peter, which is now part of Generator’s team.

Generator vs burritos

If you want to join the fun, be sure to check my other post, on how to install this great piece of technology.

All images taken from Google with some random keyword search

Installing and using the Generator

A new script has been added to the generator. Now, to install, all you have to do is:

svn co http://svn.castleproject.org:8080/svn/castle/trunk/Tools/Generator
cd generator
nant install

and then you can type from your command line generate or monorail to get help and usage.
Have fun!

Python take 3

Unless you’ve been under a rock for some time, you’ve heard of the ruby-python war. I wasn’t sure in what side I was. Ruby is elegant, compact, flexible and full OO. I like python indentation rules and flexibility too, but dislike it’s lack of consistency in the core libs (part object, part procedural).
But now that [...]

Switching blog host

As you might have noticed, I switched from Blogger to WordPress. WordPress is one of the best blogging engine without a doubt. But some fundamental features are not included in the version hosted on wordpress.com like Markdown and Textile support.
Importing posts from Blogger to WordPress was a breeze. And setting up my new blog was [...]

Live coding with MonoRail

In my constant quest to bring Castle MonoRail closer to Ruby on Rails development style, one of the thing that kept me from choosing MonoRail over Rails for fun and pleasure was the code-compile-refresh process. Because we’re working in the static compiled world, a usual scenario looks like this.

Add or remove some code
Compile from the [...]