eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley

WikiPlex 1.4 Released

mhawley — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:32:02 GMT

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I’ve finally decided that it was time to do another WikiPlex release. It’s been awhile since the last release (March of this year), but a lot of things have changed over time that I finally officially package a new version up. The CodePlex website continues to use WikiPlex, and I’m (read more...)

Setting up Mercurial server in IIS7 using a ISAPI module

mhawley — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:12:10 GMT

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Previously, Jeremy Skinner posted a very thorough guide on setting up Mercurial in IIS. The difference between his guide, and what I'll be walking you through, is how Mercurial is hosted in IIS. Where he shows you using a CGI script that executes python.exe, my guide will show you how to use isapi-wsgi to host Mercurial. (read more…)

Mercurial Conversion from Team Foundation Server

mhawley — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:46 GMT

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One of my many (almost) daily tasks when working on the CodePlex platform since releasing Mercurial as a supported version control system, is converting projects from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Mercurial. I'm happy to say that of all the conversions I have done since mid-January, the success rate of migrating full source history is about 95%. To get to this success point, I have had to learn and refine several techniques utilizing a few different tools… (read more)

VisualHG: A Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio

mhawley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:33:51 GMT

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Mercurial is quickly gaining momentum in the open source world, and the need for great tooling to make developers lives easier is always essential. Most developers using Mercurial know of the the explorer shell plugin, TortoiseHg, but what many don't know about is VisualHG. In summary... (read more)

WikiPlex v1.3 Released

mhawley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:16 GMT

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It's been a many months since the last release of WikiPlex, but its only because there hasn't been a lot of churn recently. I've very happy where WikiPlex is at, and it continues to be a very… (read more)

Extending WikiPlex with Scope Augmenters

mhawley — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:46:32 GMT

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Another extension point with WikiPlex is Scope Augmenters. Scope Augmenters allow you to post process the collection of scopes to further augment, or insert/remove, new scopes prior to being rendered. WikiPlex comes with 3 out-of-the-box Scope Augmenters that it uses for indentation, tables, and lists. For reference, I'll be explaining… (read more)

WikiPlex v1.2 Released

mhawley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:52:52 GMT

It’s been a few months since the last release of WikiPlex, but I honestly have good reasons – paternity leave! This updated version has taken in a lot of user feedback and put it into action – so thank you for contributing ideas… (read more)

WikiPlex v1.1 Released

mhawley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:42:32 GMT

It's only been a few weeks since the v1.0 release, but a lot of work has gone into a new release of CodePlex's embeddable wiki engine, WikiPlex. The time in between has not been without a few highlights, including… (read more)

Extending WikiPlex with Custom Renderers

mhawley — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:27:10 GMT

Following up from my prior post on Extending WikiPlex with Custom Macros it’s now time to talk about creating custom renderers. When we left off, we had created our title link macro and registered it with WikiPlex…[read more]

Extending WikiPlex with Custom Macros

mhawley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:48:09 GMT

One of the very nice features of WikiPlex is the ability to extend it to your hearts desire. The API is completely open, and the entry points off of WikiEngine are merely wrappers. This means that, if you really wanted to, you could create your own parser and formatter - but the majority of extending WikiPlex will be done via macros and renderers. A summary of the extension points include… (read more)

WikiPlex – An Embedded Wiki Engine

mhawley — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:29:13 GMT

I’d like to introduce you to WikiPlex, which is CodePlex’s wiki engine that we have re-written and made open source under the MS-PL license. I’m also happy to announce that our first public release is now available! Read more about WikiPlex here!

MEF + Factories Using an Export Provider

mhawley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:29:27 GMT

Taking a different approach to resolving factory exports within MEF by using an ExportProvider (new in preview 3 drop) over using a part catalog. This approach ultimately leads to a cleaner and simpler solution. Read more …

MEF + Factories

mhawley — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:13:32 GMT

Lately I've been really digging into MEF and have been looking at it's pros & cons, ease of use, extensibility, and the simple DI container that it can provide. I'm not going to give an overview of MEF, as others have done so already. What I am here to show off is a concept that may prove useful for some applications. Many of us use a DI container in very simplistic ways, as well as registering injection strategies during type resolution. Read more …

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Finds

mhawley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:53:44 GMT

I’ve went through the ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 source and found some interesting finds that will help you do work more easily. These 6 finds are just the tip of what I’m sure is included in this drop. (Read more…)

Plea for Help: WCF 404 Error

mhawley — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:32:30 GMT

I’m putting out a plea for help. For some odd reason, we have a WCF service (running in IIS 6) that’s using streaming and BasicHttpBinding that will return a 404 error message every time it’s called from our client. Hitting the same URL on the box itself through IE renders the WSDL just fine. If you have seen this issue, please contact me. We’ve been struggling with this issue and have yet to find a resolution. BTW, it works great on another web server that is configured the same, and we’ve looked at all of the verbose logs WCF can give us. Ultimately, we’re seeing the message being sent from the client, and a 404 in the IIS log, but nothing on the server logging. Thanks!