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Well, RavenDB IS possible on mono. So i'll be focusing on that for a bit. RavenDB on Mono

Bah Humbug. According to the Raven Folks, it will not run on Mono at the moment. Raven DB

Mono on Shared Hosting at DreamHost through FastCGI | blog.Tiaan.com I have successfully implemented Mono on Dreamhost. I actually used the instructions from blog.tiaan.com but I had to export the paramaters as their respective variables in the session. I used the information on the mono-project.com and their lighttpd to do that. I will be trying out RavenDB on my latest project and I really want to use dreamhost as my host.

Before I talk about Unobstrsive Javascript, let me give some background on my relationship with javascript. When I started learning web application development, I wasnt new to development, i came from Desktop Java and C++ MFC development. I was introduced to technologies such as Servlets, XML, XSTL, HTML, (early) CSS, and of course Javascript. The first thing I learned about Javascript was not to use it. Enter Unobtrusive JavaScript I am now sold on using javascript, but Unobtrusively. I think that this is one of the best web development methodologies that I have seen in a few years. I am already spinning from the AJAX shock, and coming to terms with Javascript as a first class language. But I could not shake the feeling that javascript is secondary, not primary to web development. Unobtrusive JavaScript (as well as AJAX) as made me see javascript for what is really is, a very powerful and useful first class higher level langauge. First class, meaning it stands along ...

I have been using Linq To SQL in a project recently. Linq is a great way to traverse through a collection of objects. Its a very nice utility and can get rid of those unsightly nested foreach loops with if/elses in your code. Linq To SQL is also a nice basic Object Relational Mapper. The issue is "when the rubber meets the road", as it were. Linq seems a slight bit incomplete. Take this example: A simple ChangeLog class. It has an Enum ChangeLogStates that has 4 states, Created, Modified, StatusChanged (a disposition), Shelved(basically deleted). Now, i could do an ChangeLog.add(LogStates.Created/Modified/Changed/Shelved,Object Key, strDescription) to every line of code where there is a change in the database....everywhere i insert, update the underlying entity. But Using the beauty of OOP and Linq to SQL, i can impletement the Datacontext's insert and update partial methods: partial void insertLinqItem(LinqItem item); partial void updateLinqItem(LinqItem item); in...

In the ASP.NET world, its invaluable to be able to clear all controls on a form, or disable all controls, or even reset the controls to a default state. I am going to show you an awesome way to do it, Generics Style. We will be building this using a method that takes in a Generic Type of Control, and a /// /// Excellent Method to abstract and add into the Helper classes : Using Generics /// /// private void ManageControls (Control parent, Func del) where Gen : Control { foreach (Gen c in parent.Controls) { if (c is Gen) { del.Invoke(c); if (((Control)c).HasControls()) ManageControls (((Control)c), del); } } } ManageControls (parent, x => x.Items.Clear()); ManageControls (parent, x => x.Text = "");

After trying to find an answer, i found one at http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-it-s-done from blog comment #83. Apparently there is a need to seed the session key in the session, with a 30+ character string. In your config/enviornment.rb within the Rails::Initializer.run do |config| / end block add the following: config.action_controller.session = { :session_key => "_myapp_session", :secret => "Any 30+ character string will do here, so choose whatever"} Hope this helps. Enjoy Rails 2.0+