This is an updated guide on how to compile mono from source on Ubuntu. This time, it’s about Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty tahr). This post covers:

I have some problems with the SmtpAppender of log4net on mono. I couldn’t figure out what was going wrong, it just wasn’t sending any e-mails.

How to use controllers that have the same class name but different namespaces in ASP.NET MVC.

I’ve got Postfix setup on my local desktop computer and on my server. On my local desktop, every now and then Postfix stops sending e-mails. The /var/log/syslog gets filled up with DNS related errors:

As an experiment, I modified an NUnit test project to automatically test itself after the build process. This way, the unit tests become an integral part of the build; just by building in Visual Studio you’ll know if you’ve broken a unit test.

In this post, I’m going to discuss the setup I have for deploying an ASP.NET application in Linux.

For future reference, this is what you need to do in order to install Mono and XSP on Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 LTS x64. This is about a completely blank installation, where only the SSH server role was selected during the installation of the OS.

So, this is a small summary of some things I did today (after all blog stands for web log):

So I have started reading up on Java. Getting reacquainted with that old friend. Playing with swing components on the UI editor of NetBeans. Reliving the horror of having to declare every exception your method might throw. The ugliness of the XML DOM API. object.setNumber(object.getNumber() + 1) and so on and so on.

Since the begin of May, so for the past 5 months, I’ve been doing a lot in order to get rid of some extra weight. Unlike my previous attempts in the past, this time I succeeded like never before.