Category Archives: Cuyahoga

Cuyahoga 2.0 Alpha released Comments Off

Just a little post to let you know that I released the first Alpha of the next generation of the Cuyahoga CMS yesterday. For the people who don’t know Cuyahoga: it’s a .NET CMS that uses lots of Open Source components like NHibernate, Castle Windsor and Lucene.NET. Although not as polished as Umbraco or Dotnetnuke, [...]

New adventures under medium trust 11

Many web hosting companies only allow ASP.NET applications to run under medium trust. This has been a major drawback for Cuyahoga because it required full trust (or better: some libraries require full trust). This has already caused some nasty surprises when people deployed their site to the host to find out it would not run.
Well, [...]

Useful Cuyahoga Modules – The Flash module Comments Off

Last weeks, I’ve been working on a project that uses Cuyahoga as the CMS. For this occasion, I’ve (temporarily) turned from Cuyahoga framework developer to a Cuyahoga consumer. In this role I’ve learned to appreciate some contributed modules that I didn’t really know that well, but appeared to be very valuable.
Today, I’d like to pay [...]

Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 3: client-side validation with jquery validation 4

This is part 3 of a series of posts. See also:

Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 1: basic server-side validation
Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 2: custom server-side validation

In the first two parts, I showed how you can perform validation on the server side with Castle Validation attributes and extend that model with custom validation [...]

Hidden jewels in the Castle stack: Transaction Services Comments Off

In Cuyahoga, we’re using a lot of components from the Castle stack. Some of the most brilliant components are the transaction services combined with the automatic transaction facility.
With this post, I’m trying to bring some well-deserved attention to these undervalued components.
The Context
Today, I was working on management of sites. In Cuyahoga 2.0, every site has [...]

Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 2: custom server-side validation Comments Off

This is a post in a series of posts. See also:

Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 1: basic server-side validation

In the first post of this series, I showed how you can perform basic server-side validation on your model with help of the Castle Validator component. To summarize this post: the controller validates an object that [...]

Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 1: basic server-side validation 3

Almost every single application has to deal with validating user input. With web applications, you can choose to do the validation on the client side or on the server side. In my opinion, validation should at least take place on the server side and optionally on the client side to improve the user experience. Therefore, [...]

A new experiment Comments Off

Last week, I started to do some serious Cuyahoga development again and I’m going to try a new development methodology: blog-driven-development. A few days of development brought up so many interesting things, so I decided that I might as well write about them (in fact, I already started it because this post was also triggered [...]