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Re: Simple ASP.NET MVC Ajax Proxy

Hal Lesesne — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:56:13 -0000

How about handling POST/PUT scenarios?

Re: Lucy in the Sky with Ruby

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Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

Metal File Cabinets Used — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:41:10 -0000

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find more info about this, anybody could?

Re: New Open Source .NET CMS/EPS Platform Released Today: Sense/Net 6.0 Beta 1

NABH — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:30:20 -0000

I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I’ll love to read your next post too.
Regards:
NABH

Re: Identity’s new Identity – Part 3, The Technology

website development — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:06:48 -0000

OpenID, OAuth, Login with Twitter, Login with Facebook, DISQUS, IntenseDebate are the best in business.

Re: Public Service Announcement– This is Now a Ruby Blog

website development — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:25:01 -0000

We need to try then.

Re: ESB’s for the Microsoft (.NET) Platform

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Re: Introducing mm-partial-update: change-only persistence for MongoMapper

nstults — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:36:59 -0000

I welcome any feedback. I haven't been a Rubyist for very long, so feel free to be highly critical of style as well as function, it won't hurt my feelings :)

Re: Introducing mm-partial-update: change-only persistence for MongoMapper

angilly — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:26:55 -0000

whoa. real happy this didn't die on the mailing list. I'm looking forward to reading it too. Great job, Nathan.

Re: Introducing mm-partial-update: change-only persistence for MongoMapper

jnunemaker — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:19:58 -0000

Sweet. Thanks for posting. I look forward to reading through the plugins.

Re: SOA, ESBs and JBOWS, oh my!

Kim Won — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:43:09 -0000

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Re: New Open Source .NET CMS/EPS Platform Released Today: Sense/Net 6.0 Beta 1

AbdirahmanDaud — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:24:18 -0000

Looks great...Thank you

Re: Rinsing the SOAP from WCF (or, RESTful WCF Hyperlink Acupuncture)

None — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:02:08 -0000

This blog is great

Re: Simple ASP.NET MVC Ajax Proxy

chill71uk — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:34:35 -0000

Worked great thanks. Just one slight typo in the code, line 40 in the first code snippet has got a space between the < and = on the if statement.

Re: Rule Based Access Control using an Expression Evaluator

mrhookah — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:03:24 -0000

Nope, I think you gotta smoke more hookah. It helps with the programming mind. Let's it mellow out and study the problem at a subconcious level.

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

irfankhadrani — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:19:35 -0000

Thank you very much. This blog really helped a lot of information regarding CMS for .Net

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

nstults — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:25:37 -0000

Funny how different peoples experiences with the same company can be. Goes to show companies really are made out of people. My experience with Ektron sales was really top notch, and even after they spent a bunch of time with me and I went with a roll your own approach, there seemed to be no hard feelings, which usually isn't my experience with sales people. But SiteCore had very good sales too - also responsive and professional, and I did like their product better on the whole, it just wasn't licensed quite right for us. I have learned the hard way though that the sales team doesn't always indicate what you'll find on the inside. We chose to host our website on Servepath because the sales guy blew the Rackspace sales guy absolutely out of the water, but in the end I'm certain Rackspace would have been a better option, as the Servepath tech support team is as about as hands off as they can get, a total 180 from the feeling you get from the sales team. In any case I'm glad you found a solution you're happy with!

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

Sriram Parthasarathy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:58:56 -0000

Hi Nathan,

After heavily researching 20+ products, I stumbled upon your article. Very well written and VERY helpful. My research had important points missing and your article provided them very nicely. May be, I should compile a comparison matrix, put it up on the web, give you due credit, and link back here!!

We had narrowed down to Umbraco in the open source category and to Ektron and SiteCore in the commercial category. I wrote to Ektron on a Friday and promptly got a response saying they'd like to talk to us on Monday. The trail went cold after that. After trying twice to follow up, I had to give up due to time constraints.

On the same Friday, I had sent a mail to SiteCore as well. We received a mail back from their Sales and Marketing Coordinator in Denmark (Lila Carlyle) with concrete timeslots for the following Tuesday. I confirmed my slot and also wrote about our integration-heavy requirements. SiteCore called me on the dot. The sales coordinator made the introductions and said that she had senior techie (Frank McDonald) with her to discuss technical points with me right away.

The impression that the SiteCore team gave me on that call was one of thorough professionalism. They had researched my specific integration needs and were ready with answers when I asked questions. The best thing I liked was their honesty in telling us what was doable (with respect to our case) and what wasn't. And they had the deep knowledge to suggest well-known alternatives that would work well with SiteCore for stuff that wasn't in SiteCore's direct scope. They also provided fair details about Development License and Production License.

As a company that develops products and provides product development services to others, we will not have to think twice now. For non-commercial (or low-budget) projects we are going with Umbraco. For all relevant commercial projects, our clear choice will be SiteCore.

Nathan, thanks again for this gem of an article. Keep up the good work!

Fellow decision-makers, here are two unsolicited recommendations :-)

1) All the above products have great features. SiteCore adds human availability to it. This is VERY important, IMHO.

2) http://cmsmatrix.org/ is worth a look for its feature-by-feature comparison of most CMS tools out there.

Best wishes to all of you with your respective projects!

Cheers,
Sriram

Re: Evaluating Expressions at Runtime in .NET (C#)

Guest — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:40:31 -0000

Thanks man, just what I was looking for. Worked like a charm Thanks so much…

Re: So you want to learn IronRuby? – Chapter 1 – “The Back Story”

nstults — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:21:10 -0000

Good point. That is a big benefit of Ruby in almost any usage scenario, but particularly one where you are doing what we were doing and adding scripting to your application. I don't know what metaprogramming mojo Python has, but Ruby makes it absolutely trivial to throw together a relatively elegant, expressive DSL.

Re: So you want to learn IronRuby? – Chapter 1 – “The Back Story”

Pat Gannon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:52 -0000

Another motivation for using IronRuby instead of IronPython, in addition to preferring jewels to snakes, is that it provided us the option to iteratively evolve our UI automation logic into an internal DSL, ostensibly speeding up the development of similar UI automation logic in the future, at least for that particular external application (although we never quite got to that point before the aforementioned client loss).

Re: Evaluating Expressions at Runtime in .NET (C#)

spikuenak — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:47:35 -0000

thanks a lot bos, but still i don't get it yet. :)

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

nstults — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:17:31 -0000

Dan, I'm glad you like it. However, I would be careful about skipping over a careful review of NServiceBus because of my descriptions here - this post is quite old, and NServiceBus is now maintained by a team, evolves rapidly, and has a very active community. Many of the shortcomings in this post have been overcome in recent versions of NSB. I'm not steering you away from SSB, I'm just cautioning that NSB also deserves your time in a thorough evaluation, because the very active development team and thriving community are huge assets that SSB simply does not possess.

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

danvanderboom — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:23:48 -0000

Great work, Nathan. I'm glad I found SimpleServiceBus before diving too deeply into nServiceBus. I want the fastest path to swapping out MSMQ for Windows Azure Queue Storage for cloud compute components, and SimpleServiceBus sounds easier to customize in this way. You've made a lot of design choices I would have made, so it's nice to know our styles are similar. I especially like the replaceable subsystems, message pipeline pattern, polymorphic message handling, lack of third-party dependencies, and I agree that requiring a reference to a service bus assembly in a message contracts assembly is silly.

Re: To (ASP.NET)MVC or not to MVC (or, ASP.NET MVC Hyperlink Acupuncture)

r4 games — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:14:52 -0000

Thanx for the valuable information. Can you please provide information over MVC? I was looking for it. I couldn't understand what I got from Internet. Please provide links to related topics if possible.