Brian Ritchie

I recently ran across the article A Good Programmer is a Lazy Programmer and it reminded me of the my high school programming teacher's favorite quote: "Be Smart & Lazy".  More on that in a minute, but first a brief detour down memory lane. 

IronPython has been receiving lots of attention lately...as well it should!  It showcases what a great platform .NET has become for languages for all kinds.  But IronPython isn't the only language in town...take a look at my .NET languages page.  It has grown to over 100 projects with nearly every language you can think of...and many you've probably never heard of.  Thanks to everyone who has contributed links and corrections. 

Well, it should be a lot eaiser than this, but Joel Ward figured out how to do it.
http://joelsef.blogspot.com/2006/05/recently-updated-documents-in.html 

I hope you enjoy this song as much as I did...
http://www.jonathancoulton.com.nyud.net:8080/mp3/Code%20Monkey.mp3

Recently I needed to put the change log from our subversion repository online.  Luckily, Martin Pittenauer put together a great XSLT script that turns the XML produced by the SVN Log command into an RSS feed.  It utilizes eXSLT so you'll need to use a compatible XSLT tranform tool.

Is email taking over your life? It has mine!

First off, I've contributed some code to the Mono guys to make XSP its own library.  You can get it as part of the 1.1.8 release.  I'm still working on getting a few more additions to the library, but it has all of the basics to get you going.

Download the install from http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads and get the Mono.WebServer.dll in the Mono-1.1.8\lib\mono\1.0 directory.

With that in mind, here's some code:

            int Port=8080;
            string path="\\XSPSamples";
            XSPWebSource websource=new XSPWebSource(IPAddress.Any,Port);
            ApplicationServer WebAppServer=new ApplicationServer(websource);
            //"[[hostname:]port:]VPath:realpath"
            string cmdLine=Port+":/:"+path;
            WebAppServer.AddApplicationsFromCommandLine(cmdLine);
            WebAppServer.Start(true);
            Console.WriteLine("Mono.WebServer running. Press enter to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
            WebAppServer.Stop();

The path should point at your ASP.NET files. That should do it...Enjoy!

NOTE: The API is probably not 100% stable, so you might need to "tweak" your application when a new Mono release comes out.

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