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
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. [...]
Tagged: Castle, Cuyahoga, Lucene.Net, Medium Trust, NHibernate
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 [...]
Categories: Cuyahoga
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 [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC,Cuyahoga
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Cuyahoga, jQuery, Validation
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, [...]
Tagged: Castle, Cuyahoga, Transactions
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 [...]
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Cuyahoga