http://www.5x1llz.com Upgrade Your 5x1llz Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/as-real-as-it-gets/ Words can't express how sad I've been since I heard he was in a coma and then hearing about his untimely passing. God works in mysterious ways, I can't blame him for choosing Michael Jackson seeing as he wasn't really appreciated here on earth. I've loved and grown to respect Michael ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/gone-too-soon-rip-michael-jackson-1958-2009/ I've got love for Twitter... I can't even lie. Twitter is Smart  Migrator.Net I'd never heard of this and it's a nice way to help migrate DB changes.. loving it and I intend to look into it even though I'm using Fluent nHib at the moment. via @rockarts Starting With Migrator.Net Migrator.Net 16 sites every .NET ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/more-things-i-found-on-twitter/ My laptop fell off my laptop table last week, I have bought a new MacBook Pro and installed Win7 on it using BootCamp... so for the past week I've been installing all the programs I use.. A few glitches here and there until I was wondering where SQL Management Studio was ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/sql-management-studio-install-on-win7-rc/   I have been twittering a lot lately and I have to say a few things about MVC vs WebForms discussions on Twitter today. MVC to me will not stay a niche solution only meant for the ultra-hip, uber-fly web developers. I think it will eventually be well received and widely accepted. ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/stunt-hard-with-mvc-but-keep-webforms-on-standby/ A few hours into Fluent nHibernate. I decided to log some of these errors. As time permits I'll update this one post. Eventually once I'm running smoothly I may do a post on Fluent nHibernate and my findings. This is assuming I stick with it, but so far, so good. I ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/fluent-nhibernate-errors/   As this blog has evolved, and will inevitably continue to do so, I feel I can take some time out from technical posts to vent a little about the frustrations I've had in the past few weeks surrounding the Tools of the trade. While I'm tempted to list in agonizing detail, ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/tools-friend-or-foe/ Hours of debugging and wondering what was going on with certain Views not loading, I traced down this awesome post and had to re-post it for anyone else who might be experiencing this particular pain... Problem: Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<...>'. You've checked your references, the view, the controller... what's ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/cutting-teeth-on-mvc-could-not-load-type-system-web-mvc-viewpage/ It's hard to go anywhere right now and not see MVC center stage, bathed in bright flashing neon lights. The .NET community seems to be adopting this faster than many expected. There was a lot of speculation that MVC would end up being the country cousin of the more popular ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/mvc-youre-a-rock-star-everybody-wants-u/   On Wednesday I'll (hopefully) be at the .NET Calgary user group presentation being held on Domain Driven Design.  I'm not new to the topic but the presentation will be using Fluent nHibernate and DDD, which is quite a lot to talk about in one night. However, considering JP will be delivering ... http://www.5x1llz.com/index.php/throw-some-ds/