A couple of weeks I started porting the Monochrome theme by mono-lab to the BlogEngine.NET platform. It’s quite tricky to port it because of the limitations on the things you can control by a BlogEngine.NET theme. Today I spent some more time and I made some good progress. It’s not ready yet but you can have a look at it.

Consider the following WCF service:

Today I played a bit with Umbraco for the first time. I mostly focused on its multilingual support, which is a feature I usually expect from a CMS.

The following list presents a few ways to screw up a project. Please use it only to save your project and not otherwise. Using this list for intentionally screwing up a project is forbidden.

Τον τελευταίο καιρό η Ελλάδα απασχολεί συχνά πυκνά την επικαιρότητα των ξένων μέσων ενημέρωσης. Για πολλούς ανθρώπους, η Ελλάδα ταυτίζεται με οικονομικά προβλήματα, απεργίες και αναταραχές. Οι Έλληνες παρουσιάζονται σαν τεμπέληδες που βγαίνουν στη σύνταξη στα 50. Συχνά έρχομαι αντιμέτωπος με αυτό το καινούργιο στερεότυπο και πρέπει τότε να εξηγήσω στους δυτικούς φίλους μας ότι ουσιαστικά το 8ωρο δεν υπάρχει στην Ελλάδα για τη δική μου γενιά (εκτός αν είσαι στο δημόσιο) ενώ τα όρια συνταξιοδότησης είναι περίπου τα ίδια (65 για την Ελλάδα, 67 για την Ολλανδία).

Subversion offers a mechanism called post-commit hook that allows an executable file to be run on the subversion server after a successful commit has been made. Since I host my own home server, containing both this website and my own subversion server, I thought I could use this mechanism to automatically update some files on the website when a commit has been made. For example, if I commit some changes on a web page template, it would be nice if it would automatically be updated on the website and also be packaged as a zip file for visitors of the site to download.

If you’ve ever used an ORM tool, such as NHibernate or the Entity Framework, you’ll probably have noticed that their goal is to be as unobtrusive as possible. They say, and I agree, that you shouldn’t be forced to have your business objects inherit from strange classes like MarshalByRefObject, or to annotate your properties with all sorts of ORM specific attributes. In that aspect, I find NHibernate to be rather clean.