Archive for March, 2008

MonoRail peeves III—Actions

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Part III in a series of… some.
Part I covers static type checking in views and Why This Would Be Good.
Part II is about making the view architecture more naturally composable.
Part III, this article, is more narrowly concerned with return types from actions.
RenderView, Redirect and Friends
In MonoRail, ‘actions’ are the units of code which respond to [...]

D&D creator runs out of hit points, expires

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Gary Gygax, inventor of the role playing game, yesterday failed to recover from an Abdominal Aneurysm spell cast by higher-level mage. Finished off by giant spiders:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080322/news_1m22gygax.html
He is survived by a wife, six children, and 8 million teenagers with funny-shaped dice.

Monorail peeves II

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Part II in a series of… several.
In Part I I whined on about static type checking in views. Here I moan about composability of page elements.
Composability of Page Elements

Fanta!

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

It (well, they) amused me.
Lots of Japanese adverts for Fanta. The DJ one is the best.