Charles Vallance

Ahhh... now I remember, I've got a blog! I knew I would find it hard to post to this thing, so hard to find the time! Maybe now the ski season is over (bring on next year!) I can find a bit more time. Castle As I have posted before, I have been experimenting with the castle stack for a little while now and I really enjoy it. Although, at the same time I just feel something is a miss... Maybe it was my decision to go with brail and the debugging nightmare that came with it....

I've been wanting to make a site using the Castle Project for a while now and I finally took some time out yesterday to give it a whirl. First impressions, awesome... I can't wait to get fully stuck into it! Which should be about 1 minute after writing this! :-) I've just finished using CakePHP for a big project, so MonoRail's MVC way of thinking isn't foreign to me. I've also been wanting to have a look at NHibernate and ActiveRecord is built on top of NHibernate so I can get a bit of a low down on how...

I've been doing a bit of experimentation with Castle Validation recently and thought I should write about a few of my findings... also found a couple of oddities here and there which Hammett squashed very quickly. Setting up the validation rules was as easy as 1, 2, 3. It was just a matter of adding some validation attributes to my public properties in my ActiveRecord classes. Eg. [Property] [ValidateNonEmpty("First name is required")] public string FirstName { get { return _firstname; } set { _firstname = value; } } I could quite easily dictate how the validation...