"MonoRail is hard, don’t let anyone tell you any different. You have to download a bunch of stuff, set it up on your machine, learn some weird new syntax for writing your web pages, you don’t get intellisense in your webpages, there’s no nice server controls, no drag and dropping to build the U...

As we all know, Ayende has done a lot for the .NET community. Blog subscription not optional. We heard lots of different people asking if he ever sleeps. How is this possible? I say; follow the link. http://kyle.baley.org/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricMonorailsWhileTheyreHibernating.aspx http://blo...

Well it was bound to happen at some point. My first screencast. It's a quick walkthrough on how you can get a baseline MonoRail solution up and running. Yeah, I know. Everyone's talking about MS MVC these days, and I'm certainly just as excited about it as anyone else. But MonoRail is still a v...

Following many requests from users, I've created a screen cast in which I show how to setup a new MonoRail/AspView website, from scratch (no wizards).

Colin Ramsay created a series of screencasts about MonoRail. To date, parts 1-5 are about MonoRail while there are a couple more talking about other features of Castle Project. They're easy to follow and worth watching. If you need to download them just point your download manager to http://colinra...

I hate aimless bitching, and this post annoyed me enough to decide to do something about it. The basic problem is that making any change at all to an ASP.Net application requires an AppDomain load / unload, which takes a lot of time. This means that a quick change and browser refresh are not possibl...

I run into the issue of having to alert the user of some error, and it brought home the fact that English & Hebrew are not easy to mix...

Shows how to wire-up validation in MonoRail using the Validator Component/Library.

Yep, you read that right, they finally made it.

Ensuring that I'm doing unit testing correctly, using the new BastControllerTest, and also how to setup a simple ViewComponent

Covers layouts and rescue NVelocity files and how you use them with MonoRail.

Introduction to Castle MonoRail. More posts coming soon.

Describes the bare minimum, essential code only, to get Caslte's MonoRail to render content. Visual Studio not needed.

There are reasons for either of the three choices, but we technologists often fail to actually make a choice as much as we choose not to choose for not being even aware of our choices. How do you know that you're using the best, most productive tools?