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, [...]
Categories: Cuyahoga
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Castle, CMS, Cuyahoga, NHibernate
Edited 2009-11-26: removed EF4 Feature CTP from demo package and added some code examples.
So, Entity Framework 1.0 pretty much sucks (compared to alternatives), but I’m glad to see that things have improved a lot in version 4.0 (we’ll call that EF4 from now). To see how the improvements work out, I did a quick spike [...]
Categories: O/R mapping
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Castle, Entity Framework
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, [...]
Tagged: Castle, Cuyahoga, Lucene.Net, Medium Trust, NHibernate
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 [...]
Tagged: Castle, Cuyahoga, Transactions