Ivan Porto Carrero » NBlogr

This blog has been moved and upgraded

admin — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:25:04 +0000

I moved my blog to be on webhost4life.com

I’m also changing blogging engines and announcing that I will stop development on nblogr.
NBlogr was almost ready for a v1 release but it has too big of a memory footprint. The footprint is 70MB which is too much for a blog.
To fix this I would have to change my data access layer to a different approach. I decided instead to switch to subtext and I’ll see which features I can provide from nblogr for subtext as plugins. I also don’t have the time anymore to occupy myself with nblogr.
The feed should remain working without a change. I upgraded my blog to subtext using Ayende’s instructions
Which means that the permalinks should still work but urls that contain a guid won’t work anymore.
The reason for moving from dasblog to subtext are the same as why i started nblogr in the first place. Dasblog has been nothing but a hassle for me. It is often down, does only trackbacks to my own domain, and many more annoyances.

NBlogr Presentation in Wellington

admin — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:17:00 +0000

Tonight I got the chance to present my nblogr application to a larger audience. Unfortunately I’m in the process of fixing bugs in NBlogr and one of those bugs required me to make a change to NBlogr.Web/views/default/shared/mainmenu.boo . I had made this change on sunday around midnight right before I went to bed. Of course I forgot to test the application because and it wouldn’t run on my presentation. When I got home it took me about 3 minutes to fix. I had to import a reference to Base4.Storage in the mainmenu.boo file.

I’d like to thank everybody for coming, their patience and listening to my ramblings.

Anyway I’ve included my slide deck in this post and I think it might be a good idea to post a couple more links to some of the people I mentioned in my talk.
http://www.base4.net – Alex James, Auckland
http://blog.bittercoder.com – Alex Henderson, Auckland
http://www.ayende.com/blog
http://hammet.castleproject.org

http://www.castleproject.org
http://www.nunit.org
http://www.nblogr.com

svn repository:
https://svn.koolkraft.net/nblogr/trunk

NBlogr-Wellington 02 _05_2007.ppt (440 KB)

To get nblogr running on your machine follow these steps :

Make sure you have a subversion client installed or subversion itself.

C:\Projects> svn co https://svn.koolkraft.net/nblogr/trunk
C:\Projects> osql -E
1> create database nblogr
2> go
1> quit

open the nblogr solution.

change the connection string in web.config

The different configuration options are explained in the web.config

If you want to use a different extension than aspx you have to change the httphandler configuration and set the extension in nblogr/routing

if you want urls to be rewritten without an extension you will have to enable wildcard handling.

hit ctrl-f5 and it should take you through the configuration. If ctrl-f5 doesn’t work try setting up the application in IIS.

Update:
James Hippolite from telecom was so kind to blog most of the bullet points of my slides. Which can be found here http://tvornz.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A93B6100E328706D!388.entry?_c=BlogPart&_c02_owner=1

Finally back to nblogr

admin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:27:05 +0000

I can finally spend a couple of days on nblogr. I hope I get enough done to have a releasable version after this time.

Another view engine for castle

admin — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:08:12 +0000

Ken Egozi has created a c# and vb view engine for castle. It’s not yet available for download but looks promising

You can check it out at : AspView – Yet another MonoRail ViewEngine

As I mentioned previously that I do like boo but i miss intellisense in visual studio and let’s face it at this moment NOTHING beats visual studio as an IDE. Although sharpdevelop scores a lot higher than eclipse in my book. And what an amazing tool they built with so little resources in comparison to the other IDE projects.

I like c# obviously but have been toying around with ironpython a little lately. Once i pass the decorator bit I’d sure love to port the brail view engine to an ironpython view engine (the only problem i see there is that i don’t have time :S to really do it.)

Anyway I thought I might share with you what i have planned as non-workrelated projects for the year that is to come.

1. Finish nblogr
2. Make nblogr work on linux and on mysql and/or postgres
3. Create the ironpython view engine (from here onwards i want to be able to use ironpython as my primary language)
4. Add forums to nblogr
5. Add CMS capabilities to nblogr (very distant future)

Let me know what you think about the ironpython view engine ?

As stated before I would love some help in any one of my side projects of course. Just drop me a line and I’ll figure out where to fit you in

I whished I had some more interesting stuff to talk about but the last 5-6 weeks I’ve been buried in some application and hoping to finish it this week.

del.icio.us tags: Castle, Brail, AspView, NBlogr, Programming, IronPython

Base4 on Castle continued… The facility

admin — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:00:31 +0000

Much of what I’m going to show today has been borrowed from Alex Henderson on the storage facility.

This post continues the hosting base4 inside your web application post

To integrate base4 in castle you can register either components or create a facility which allows it to hook into some bits of the castle life-cycle.

It doesn’t make such a big difference when actually writing code except for the fact that you have transactions managed by castle, caching etc practically for free.

The ObjectTransaction that is available in base4 is built on the transaction scope and uses TransactionOptions.Required. Translated freely this means it will attach itself to an existing transaction if one exists if not it will create one.

So below I’ll first put the code for the storage facility and the base4TransactionManager and the configuration in the config files. The full version of these files and the classes can be found in the source control repository of NBlogr

The storage facility

namespace NBlogr.Common.Base4Integration
{
    public class Base4StorageFacility : AbstractFacility
    {
        protected override void Init()
        {
            // If no context has been set yet (but should be done in application_start) set the default context.
            if (StorageContext.Default == null)
            {
                string base4Context = FacilityConfig.Attributes["base4Context"];
 
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(base4Context))
                {
                    throw new StorageException(“The Base4StorageFacility requires a \”base4Context\” attribute to be set”);
                }
 
                StorageContext.SetDefault(base4Context);
            }
 
            // Add the transactionmanager to the registered components
            Kernel.AddComponent(“base4.transactionManager”, typeof(ITransactionManager), typeof(Base4TransactionManager));
 
            // Add the IItemcontext to the registered components
            Kernel.AddComponentInstance(“base4.defaultContext”, typeof(IItemContext), StorageContext.Default);
 
            // Add the base4Dataobject
            Kernel.AddComponent(“base4.dataObject”, typeof(IDataObject<>), typeof(BaseDataObject<>));
 
        }
    }
}

The transaction manager

namespace NBlogr.Common.Base4Integration
{
    [PerThread]
    public class Base4TransactionManager : DefaultTransactionManager
    {
    }
}

The IDataObject interface

public interface IDataObject : IBaseDataObject
    where T : class, IItem, new()
    {
        void Delete(T item);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList Find(ObjectPath oPath, string sortExpression);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList Find(string oPath, string sortExpression, int pageNumber, int pageSize, out int pageCount);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList Find(ObjectPath oPath, string sortExpression, int pageNumber, int pageSize, out int pageCount);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList Find(string oPath);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList Find(ObjectPath oPath);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList Find(string oPath, string sortExpression);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList FindAll(string sortExpression, int pageNumber, int pageSize, out int pageCount);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList FindAll(string sortExpression);
        Base4.Storage.IItemList FindAll();
        Base4.Storage.IItemList FindById(Guid Id);
        T GetById(Guid Id);
        T GetOne(string oPath, params object[] parameters);
        T GetOne(string oPath);
        T GetOne(ObjectPath oPath);
        T GetOneUsingSQL(string SQL);
        T GetOneUsingSQL(string SQL, ObjectScope scope);
        T GetOne(string opath, ObjectScope scope);
        T GetOne(ObjectPath path, ObjectScope scope);
        T Save(T item);
        string SortExpression { get; set; }
        void DeleteAll();
        void Delete(ObjectPath path);
        void Delete(string path);
        void Delete(string path, params string[] replaces);
        IItemList Find(ObjectPath path, ObjectScope scope);
        IItemList FindUsingSQL(string SQL);
        IItemList FindUsingSQL(string SQL, ObjectScope scope);
        IItemList Find(ObjectPath path, ObjectScope scope, string sortExpression, int pageNumber, int pageSize, out int pageCount);
        IItemList FindAll(ObjectScope scope, string sortExpression, int pageNumber, int pageSize, out int pageCount);
    }

The facilities.config file

<configuration>
 
  <facilities>