Up and running again with ghost ...

Finally I made it, new server installation and configuration as well as my new "ghost" blog running on node.js + nginx. Woohoo! Next step is to migrate my word press posts.…

Fun with Visual Studio

Sometimes I love the error messages visual studio produces! …

The Productive Developer

This post lists useful tools and habits for developers in order to become more productive. It is based on my experience and some information I extracted from the book "The Productive Programmer". I try to keep the list short and because I am a .NET guy it will be coined…

Acceptance testing with FitNesse and .NET

FitNesse is an open source software testing tool which can be used to do acceptance testing in a lot of different scenarios. It was originally developed to test java applications but can also be used with some modifications with the .NET framework. Since the documentation for using it in .NET…

How to use ZFS and Encryption on a ubuntu home server

Recently I set up a home file server out of old hardware and installed ubuntu server edition. The idea was to make use of my old hard disks (which range from 80 GB to 500 GB capacity) and the next time I replace a hard disk it should be easy…

Entity Framework 4.0 Code-First vs NHibernate

Microsoft's .NET Framework Version 4 includes a version of the Entity Framework, which allows two ways of creating your model: Database First and Model First. Database First was already available for the previous version of Entity Framework. It means that Visual Studio's Wizard is used to point to a database…