http://blog.limpens.com ill/dev/com Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:46:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the last two years or so, I was working on a partial rewrite of the web shop I am developing. The original web site was done in quite a hurry using whatever tool would fit the current situation. So I ended up with a behemoth consisting of asp.net webforms, 4 ... http://blog.limpens.com/2009/09/01/refactoring-a-web-forms-application-to-modern-paradigms/ Google announced it's own browser project (Google Chrome) with a comic by Scott McCloud. It happens often, that in a conversation I try to evangelize people about the comic medium`s vast possibilities. Superheroes - bah! There is much more to it. Also, I was often thinking, how a comic about software ... http://blog.limpens.com/2008/09/02/googles-software-developer-comic/ When business entities hold some collection and you read the NHibernate manual on how to handle this, most parts of the book (not all) will either tell you to expose this either as an IList (more pragmatic) or as an ISet (more beautiful, performant, failsafe, etc.). I am under the impression ... http://blog.limpens.com/2008/08/31/handling-collections-with-nhibernate/ My kiddo liked to play with GCompris, a quite nice (although none of them are as nice as I would wish they were) application suite for children. I had it running on my windows pc, but when I switched it to a mac mini (I just loved the silence), this ... http://blog.limpens.com/2008/08/31/getting-gcompris-to-run-in-mac-os-x/ So over the past weekend, I changed the dns and limpens.com is running at the new host, webfaction.com, which, so far I can recommend. I'll talk about them another time, maybe. I switched webhost, because I was unhappy with webhost4liefe's connection's speed. I live in Brazil and waiting for a ... http://blog.limpens.com/2008/05/12/about-switching-and-running-and-being-free-limpenscom/ Just stared the account. Let`s see what the lisp/python/ruby world is going to be like. Just tried to install plone, but failed as it seems to consume more memory than my current profile (80mb) offers. http://blog.limpens.com/2008/05/06/hello-world/