Recently I decided to switch hosting provider from a shared server to a VPS. My choice of linux is Ubuntu so i installed the latest version, Ubuntu 10.10 server. Instead of using Apache as webserver, which has been my choice of webserver for years, I decided to go for Nginx. Nginx is known for its [...]
30 Nov, 2010
Posted by: Peter In: .NET|EPiServer|Powershell|Web
Two weeks ago I went to the EPiServer Meetup where Bartek Tatkowski talked about EPiServer and CI. This got me inspired to write about how we do CI and deployment in my current project. The site we are building is an EPiServer 6 CMS Enterprise site based on .NET 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (I [...]
21 Nov, 2010
Posted by: Peter In: Powershell|Web
Microsoft WebDeploy (MSDeploy) is a very useful tool, not only for deploying web sites. In this post I will show you how MSDeploy can be used as a tool for synchronizing local and remote folders and executing commands on a remote server.
19 Apr, 2010
Recently I started a new assignment at a customer where we are going to build their new public web site and their intranet, both of them based on EPiServer CMS 6. The person leading the project is very found of ASP.NET MVC, so my first task was to experiment with EPiServer and ASP.NET MVC, to [...]
Recently I got a request from a customer to perform some search engine optimizing for an old EPiServer site we are maintaining. One of the optimizations was to fix the paging on their product page. The products are fetched from an external data source and are not stored as pages in EPiServer, thus normal EPiServer [...]
07 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Peter In: PHP|Web|Zend Framework
In this post I am going to show how easy it is to create a JSON-RPC web service using the built in support in Zend Framework. First we need to create the php-file that will handle the incoming RPC calls. It is not advised to put this inside the MVC structure of a Zend web [...]
30 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Peter In: PHP|Web|Zend Framework
Today I upgraded a project we started working on last year from Zend Framework 1.7 to Zend Framework 1.9. I excepted to run into several API incompatibilities, but the only problem I got was the autoloader. In Zend 1.7, and earlier versions, the autoloader was registered like this: require_once "Zend/Loader.php"; Zend_Loader::registerAutoload(); In Zend [...]
It used to be a bit tricky to get started with the Zend Framework. The Zend Framework is very flexible and allows you to set it up in almost any way that fits your needs. This means for example that the directory structure and location of files is up to you, however – there is [...]
About a month ago I finished reading the book ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Test Driven Development by Emad Ibrahim. The book weighs in only at about 300 pages, making it easily something you can read in a couple of nights. The book is written in tutorial fashion and is is probably best read with a [...]
I recently needed to setup a new ASP.NET development environment and deiced to give Microsofts Web Platform Installer 2.0 a chance. I had actually never heard about this product before, but what it does is installing .NET, the needed development libraries, and the express versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server. It required three reboots, [...]