Charles Vallance

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 recently become the proud owner of an old server that my mother doesn't require anymore. It's nothing too fancy at all, just a Xeon 2.4 with 512mb. But its good fun none the less! :-) Currently I've got it set up with Win2K3 with SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition for my developments and testing. Also, I've moved my SVN server onto it, and my previous post about setting up SVN server on XP came in really handy. This is all good because it's taking a bit of the load off my XP box which is getting a...