ActiveRecord and NHibernate second level cache

Wow!!! NHibernate second level cache rocks!. Before enabling the NHibernate second level cache in my Castle web application, a controller accesing several models in the database delayed about 40 seconds in process and render a request. This becomes the application...

Increasing Eclipse performance on Ubuntu

Eclipse package in Ubuntu Dapper depends on the GNU Java bytecode interpreter (gij-4.1) and the performance is extremly bad, is very heavy. Nowdays there are official Ubuntu packages for Sun JDK (sun-java5-jdk) and the performance is obviously greather, the difference...

Web services: Circular reference serializing problem

Web services using Document/literal (literal XML) encoding is the actual interoperability standard. The XmlSerializer in Mono which is used in System.Web.Services.WebService serializes using this standard and is pretty simple to write web services using...

MonoRail generator rules

Wow!, look at this, Marc-André’s generator is improving in a very usefull fashion. Furthermore the generator is successfully working on Mono, 100% Mono compatible. See the video running on Mac with XSP2. Congratulations Marc-Andre, I think that Castle will...

Autogenerating a Castle Web application from UML

Update (9 March 2009): Broken links fixed My favourite rapid web development framework is MonoRail with ActiveRecord (CastleProject). Castle works fine with Mono on GNU/Linux, and we are using Castle for several projects, so we are working in several tools to increase...