Frank-Leonardo Quednau

Rf.Sites source code available

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:07:52 GMT

It is my aim to have this site running on .NET code by the time I can leave my current hosting contract (end of February 2010). After some time I decided to have my own small platform to support just the features I need on my site for mainly two reasons...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC: class / action, not method / action

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:13:05 GMT

While pushing along my little home-brew CMS, Rf.Sites, which uses ASP.NET MVC for the HTTP Cruft that comes with Web development, there was something that was disturbing me. The train of thought was roughly as follows: read more...(read more)

How can I get rid of this goto?

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:01:33 GMT

Help! It's late and I don't see a good way to get rid of this goto construct: private void advanceTheTimeCursor( Func<DateTime> nextTime, Action uponSuccessfulAdvancement) { loop: var t = nextTime(); if (t > reference) return; uponSuccessfulAdvancement...(read more)

Repository or DAO?: Repository

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:20:51 GMT

Fine, fine, the title is a blatant copy from Fabio Maulo 's equally titled blog post . Then again, this was the direct inspiration for understanding how the data access should look like in the mini-Blog engine I am cooking up. I decided to implement...(read more)

Intermezzo: XSL 2.0 on .NET

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:28:53 GMT

I was up to updating some old stuff that I had previously written in JAVA to the .NET world. It has been a while since I worked with JAVA - I had forgotten that the XSL I once built used version 2.0 features. To my dismay .NET 3.5 allows you to control...(read more)

Feynman & Silverlight: A great combination

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:21:14 GMT

Over at Microsoft research , they have put up numerous lectures from that great theoretical physicist and bongo player, Richard Feynman . read more...(read more)

Meet DIs local rep: The AbstractContext

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:12:46 GMT

I am having an unhealthy yet energetic and fruitful relation with a close relative of 'the' Dependency Injection (DI) container. She's called AbstractContext and she's been able to cope with all kinds of thorny situations where numerous...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC from scratch

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:01:05 GMT

Yesterday I thought that it would be a good idea to check out ASP.NET MVC (MVC) on my "on-the-edge" rig with Visual Studio 2010 running on Windows 7. It shouldn't have surprised me then, that ASP.NET MVC support is currently unavailable...(read more)

Fashion of the week - Building with Rake

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:01:23 GMT

Here & There I have been seeing people using Ruby's build system rake in their .NET open source projects instead of NAnt or MSBuild. I don't really feel like commenting this fact here, but it is slightly annoying that people expect us to know...(read more)

How much does Linq.Take take?

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:23:47 GMT

I wasn't 100% certain how much the "Take" would take from a list with less elements than the number you want to take. It probably says in the docs, but let me assure you that this test succeeds: [ Test ] public void TakeTakesAsMuchAsThereIs...(read more)

Scary StructureMap configuration expressions Pt.1

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:51:51 GMT

"Most scary StructureMap Configuration Expression"™ so far... ForRequestedType < ISession > ( ) . InterceptConstructionWith ( wcfCachePolicy ) . AddInstances ( instanceExpression => instanceExpression. Conditional...(read more)

Comfortable command line argument parsing

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:29:42 GMT

Once in a while you may want to write a command line tool which may have to accept commad line arguments. In comes a nice little bit of source code that is part of the great output of the Mono project. Documentation is available here and the source code...(read more)

cycling through a number range

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:36:30 GMT

What I really wanted to do was to play a round of quakelive. But right now, quakelive is down (well, it's Beta, isn't it?). Quakelive pointed me to their twitter feed . read more...(read more)

Another beacon in a sea of expressions

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:57:43 GMT

A prosaic introduction to the subject of .NET expressions. These were introduced with .NET 3.5 and are featured most prominently in LINQ. Over here I implemented a use case with the aid of expressions. In my current project I am using expressions to be...(read more)

Playing Lotto with LINQ

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:12:16 GMT

You know, they are once again going craazy in Germany - The Lotto jackpot has swollen to a whopping 35 million. That's a lot of money, certainly enough to devote some of my time to the subject. read more...(read more)