James Broome

My current project makes heavy use of the Windows Server AppFabric Caching Service and whilst I think this is great piece of technology, it does have a pretty big hole in functionality. There’s currently no supported, out-the-box way to get a cache host (or the entire cluster) to start automatically, say after a server is [...]

This is part 5 in my series of posts about integrating the .Net open source content management system N2CMS into the Sharp Architecture demo application Who Can Help Me?.
So far, I’ve

Added the N2 assemblies
Added the edit site to the web project
Created the initial content definitions
Created the database schema
Added root nodes to the CMS database
Updated the [...]

I’ve recently been spending some time working on removing the friction in project start-up, by producing a skeleton solution for an ASP.NET MVC application, based on all the goodness that we’ve thrown into Who Can Help Me?. I ran this by my colleague Simon Brown and asked him to pull it apart and ask any [...]

I was excited when I first heard about Postmark as it answered a problem that I’ve faced on many projects in the past – how do you send “triggered” emails from your web application? By triggered emails, I mean one time, one hit emails sent to a specific user in response to a specific action [...]

If you’re a reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Behaviour Driven Development and have been for about the last two years. My interest in this style of development began when I attended JP Boodhoo’s Nothin But .Net training course “bootcamp” in Vancouver back in the spring [...]