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Introducing Castlecasts | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/introducing-castlecasts
It’s been a very long time since I lasted blogged but I’ve found some time and would like to take this opportunity to announce Castlecasts. After doing a lot of learning in Ruby on Rails, one of the best resources that I found was the www.railscasts.com. Site For those who don’t know, it contains over 200 screencasts about various aspects of programming in RoR. So I posted the idea of creating a similar site for the CastleProject which seemed to have some interest. Getting Started With MonoRail. I’...
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Presenting at DevEvening | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/presenting-at-devevening
So I went to my first DevEvening. Last week and found it very useful. I spoke to a few people about the tools and frameworks I’ve been working with and found that most people have either never heard of them or have no idea how to use them. After listening to the speakers, I was then inspired to present some of the things I do/use during day-to-day development. So I am going to be presenting at the next DevEvening:. For those that do come, please go easy on me and please no awkward questions ;o). You are ...
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Building .NET Solution with Rake and TeamCity | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/building-net-solution-with-rake-and-teamcity
Building .NET Solution with Rake and TeamCity. I’ve been reading through my Ruby books and came across Rake. Rake is a Ruby build program similar to NAnt or MSBuild but instead of writing XML, you use Ruby instead. Now that opens all sorts of doors, so I thought I’d see if I could get Rake to build a .NET solution and take it from there. First things first, if you want to do this you will need to download and install Ruby. DOT NET PATH = "#{ENV[". SystemRoot "]} Microsoft.NET Framework v3.5". That was pr...
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March | 2010 | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2010/03
Archive for March, 2010. Castlecasts.com is live! After a few evenings hard work, I can now announce that castlecasts.com. Currently there is only one screencast to watch but I’ll be building on this in the coming weeks. If you have any ideas for future episodes or feedback for the site feel free to post them on the forum. Now a big thank you to the Castle team, especially Henry Conceição for space on the Castle build server. And also for the hosting of the site. You guys rock! RT @ Otto English. Buildin...
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Integrating reCAPTCHA with Castle MonoRail | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/integrating-recaptcha-into-a-monorail-project
Integrating reCAPTCHA with Castle MonoRail. I’m currently working on a little experimental Castle. Project and wanted to add a CAPTCHA image to a form. Of course I could try to create my own but I don’t like reinventing the wheel so I did a little digging and came across reCAPTCHA. It can be integrated into websites and has a number of tools available to help you do this. I couldn’t find an example of using it with MonoRail, but did find this example for ASP.NET MVC by Derik Whittaker. CHALLENGE FIELD KE...
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Castlecasts.com is live! | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/castlecasts-com-is-live
Castlecasts.com is live! After a few evenings hard work, I can now announce that castlecasts.com. Currently there is only one screencast to watch but I’ll be building on this in the coming weeks. If you have any ideas for future episodes or feedback for the site feel free to post them on the forum. Now a big thank you to the Castle team, especially Henry Conceição for space on the Castle build server. And also for the hosting of the site. You guys rock! Responses to “Castlecasts.com is live! We’re planni...
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Andy Pike | My personal blog about all sorts of random stuff | Page 2
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Integrating reCAPTCHA with Castle MonoRail. I’m currently working on a little experimental Castle. Project and wanted to add a CAPTCHA image to a form. Of course I could try to create my own but I don’t like reinventing the wheel so I did a little digging and came across reCAPTCHA. It can be integrated into websites and has a number of tools available to help you do this. I couldn’t find an example of using it with MonoRail, but did find this example for ASP.NET MVC by Derik Whittaker. CHALLENGE FIELD KE...
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Integrating Gravatar with Castle MonoRail | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/integrating-gravatar-with-castle-monorail
Integrating Gravatar with Castle MonoRail. As part of my experimental Castle MonoRail. Project that I mentioned last time. I now wanted to allow users to include an image (avatar) within their profile. Obviously I could have just allowed them to upload an image, store it and then shown it when required. But I thought I’d integrate with Gravatar. Is basically a free service where anyone can store an avatar image against an email address. They provide a very simple API. So I knew it was correct:. Hash = md...
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Learning Ruby | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/learning-ruby
I haven’t posted in a long time, so I thought it was about time that I did. I decided to take a proper look at Ruby. Currently I know virtually nothing, so I thought I’d start blogging about my progress which should help me learn and may also help other who are going down the same path. Just so you know, I am a .NET developer and all my stuff is Windows based, so all the stuff below works on Windows. First download and install Ruby. I used the Ruby 1.8.6 One-Click Installer. Design Patterns in Ruby.
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Thank you DevEvening | Andy Pike
https://andypike.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/thank-you-devevening
Last Thursday night I gave my first ever technical talk. The subject was An Introduction to TDD and I thought it went very well. So a big thank you. To everyone that came along and I hope you found the talk and demonstration interesting. So as promised here are the files from Thursday night:. Also as promised here are a bunch of links to the various tools I used and spoke about. The ones in bold are the ones that I use, but feel free to look at the others:. MSTest (Part of VS2008 Pro and above). I'm...
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