Joseph Billena

Go Saint Reapers!

2007-12-09T12:05:00.000-05:00

Nonoy, Ben and I created the forum for our highschool batch and it was successful. The following is our todo list in order to achieve our goal.

Invite our friends
Create a fun environment to keep and encourage our friends to post.
Make it exciting

It turns out that all we need to do was to invite our friends and create some threads and it all started from there. Now most of us are hooked already and some of us including me check the forum as soon as I wake up. Also I have seen posts with an interval of just minutes with each other. It's different than the mailing list we had before... for some reason everybody stopped emailing. The forum has different feel that email and it makes it more of a community than just email everybody.

We have a photo gallery which has a storage limit of 10mb and we set it to resize the pictures. We have a chatroom which I think at first we use it but lately it some how no ones logging in.

Anyway, so far so good. I'm glad that people are participating although we need to invite more of our batchmates.

Sample C# Code with Color Coding

2007-11-30T16:40:00.000-05:00

The snippet below is a test for c# color scheme in blogger


/*************************************************
* This sample illustrates how to use an ArrayList 
* and a foreach loop.
* (from the quickstart tutorials)
**************************************************/
using System;
using System.Collections;

class ListSample
{
    public static void Main(String[] args)
    {
        //create the arraylist and add the items
        ArrayList fruit = new ArrayList();
        fruit.Add("Apple");
        fruit.Add("Pear");
        fruit.Add("Orange");
        fruit.Add("Banana");

        //loop through the arraylist elements
        foreach (String item in fruit)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(item);
        }
        
        Console.WriteLine ("\nPress Return to exit.");
        Console.Read();
    }
}

Community for Pinoy Developers

2007-11-30T16:01:00.000-05:00

Recently, I was looking around for articles about MonoRail. And I stumble upon this post from Ayende, where he talks about a post about MonoRail from a blog in devpinoy.org, I didn't really finished reading what he was writing about because my attention was redirected to "Wow, a filipino developers community!". So I joined the community and found that they are also .NET enthusiasts especially with some people working with open source projects, that I'm also excited about. The community is for all not only for .NET programmers, it's also for C++, Java and etc... Basically it's for all filipino code geeks. The founder is from San Diego and so far I found that most of the members are from Philippines. I hope there are members around here in New Jersey, so we could form kind of like a .NET User Group or something that we could talk anything about .NET. Anyway, I'm really happy that I found a new community.

MVC Frameworks in .NET

2007-11-29T15:59:00.000-05:00

Scott Guthrie announced the ASP.NET MVC Framework last month and he has been writing some tutorials about it here. I'm really excited for it to come out especially when you read about it in every blog posts. But there is also Castle Project's MonoRail. It's also a MVC Framework from Castle which is part of their web application framework. They have a bunch of stuff like ActiveRecord, MicroKernal/Windsor Container. But right now I'm only interested with their MonoRail. So far I find MonoRail very easy to follow but I'm not really sure about the performance since I haven't seen any successful open source projects that uses it yet. Although companies uses it already, I heard one in HanselMinutes, I want to see a complete open source project that is built with MonoRail. I'm not a very experience developer but I have enough experience to know what a good code looks like. Here at work, we do everything opposite from what you call "best practices", so I need to rely on open source projects and articles to learn how to code better. Anyway, if someone out there knows some open source project that is built with MonoRail, let me know.