Monthly Archives: February 2008

On Breaking the Boot

I’m writing this post on a freshly restored HP Pavilion laptop. It’s freshly restored because after a recent auto-update, Vista decided to stop loading. Two of the updates worked just fine, installing in seconds. The third update started, but got … Continue reading

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On Constructors and Helpers in MonoRail

Helpers in MonoRail provide a very convenient way to extend your presentation logic. However, it’s important to note that MonoRail will initialize helper instances for a controller before the session state has been created for the request. The implication of … Continue reading

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