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Ben Lovell

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• This blog is moving...

  Posted: 20 Apr 2006 at 12:38 by Benjamin Lovell

  The blog has moved to wordpress. Please let me know if there are any articles or posts you want ported across. The new URL is: http://benl.wordpress.com/. See you there!

• Sony High Definition Demonstration

  Posted: 25 Jan 2006 at 17:13 by Benjamin Lovell

  I'm due to attend a Blu-Ray/Hi Def demonstration tomorrow. I've been super-interested in anything Hi-Def lately after experiencing it first-hand. I'll post my thoughts tomorrow after the demonstration!

• XBOX 360 - I've got one!

  Posted: 02 Dec 2005 at 15:50 by Benjamin Lovell

  THANK YOU WOOLWORTHS!!! After two failed pre-orders (Amazon and Game) I noticed a thread on AVForums mentioning that Woolworths online had stock of both premium and core packages. I placed the order 17th November not really expecting nothing to be honest... Anyway, got an email saying it had be

• How to: log a particular type's output using log4net

  Posted: 17 Nov 2005 at 18:03 by Benjamin Lovell

  Took me more than a few minutes to figure this out so I thought I'd share it :) Add the following inside your appender configuration element: <filter type="log4net.Filter.LoggerMatchFilter">    <loggerToMatch value="NHibernate.Impl.BatcherImpl" />    <acc

• Logging in NHibernate 1.0

  Posted: 02 Nov 2005 at 14:05 by Benjamin Lovell

  If like me you've just upgraded one of your applications to use NHibernate 1.0 and want to know why the hell logging has suddenly stopped working - you should try adding a call to: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure(). NHibernate previously managed this on your behalf.

• ASP.NET 1.1 web.config documentation

  Posted: 24 Jul 2005 at 14:29 by Benjamin Lovell

  Since I seem to forget this or lose the link every time I pave my development VM machine image, here it is!

• Expert.NET Delivery using NANT and CruiseControl.NET

  Posted: 03 Jul 2005 at 20:32 by Benjamin Lovell

  My good friend and colleague Marc Holmes recently had his first book published: Expert.NET Delivery using NANT and CruiseControl.NET. Recently finished my copy and I have to say it really is worth a look. I can testify that everything Marc has written is borne out of real-world experience when imple

• Damn comment spammers

  Posted: 03 Jul 2005 at 20:23 by Benjamin Lovell

  Due to the influx of comment spam (although it could be argued that its the only thing being posted on my blog lately :)) I've added Miguel Jimenez's excellent CAPTCHA control to the comments entry page on the site. Should hold them at bay for a while until I manage to upgrade the blog to community

• Useful Hibernate mappings reference

  Posted: 12 Apr 2005 at 10:18 by Benjamin Lovell

  Came across this useful reference for the various mappings and associations available to (N)Hibernate users. While this is aimed at java/hibernate, most of this is applicable to .NET/Nhibernate of course.

• Intellisense for NHibernate XML mapping files

  Posted: 09 Apr 2005 at 21:13 by Benjamin Lovell

  To get intellisense when editing NHibernate mapping files, follow the steps below: Get the NHibernate mapping XSD file by either downloading the latest release from here or download the 0.7 compatible schema here. Copy the schema file to the "X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common

• Enabling ASP.NET caching with the NHibernate persistence framework

  Posted: 09 Apr 2005 at 20:42 by Benjamin Lovell

  Introduction NHibernate allows you to specify a particular caching provider which enables you to control the backing-store used for a cache - based on your execution environment (i.e. ASP.NET, Windows Forms). Follow the steps below to enable ASP.NET 2nd level caching in NHibernate. Prerequisites NHi

• 3 Gmail invites up for grabs...

  Posted: 02 Jan 2005 at 22:46 by Benjamin Lovell

  Anybody interested...?

• Amazon Simple Queuing Services

  Posted: 15 Nov 2004 at 13:01 by Benjamin Lovell

  Traditionally, providing highly available and secure MQ services has been a difficult part of developing successful distributed applications but now Amazon are offering these kind of back-end services via their proven infrastructure. They've recently release a beta version of their&nb

• Blogging activity (lack of)

  Posted: 08 Nov 2004 at 20:36 by Benjamin Lovell

  A colleague mentioned to me today that the blog had gone a little quiet recently ;) So what have I been doing all this time? I'm putting together a couple of articles which should be published pretty soon, I spent a weekend in Poland (Krakow) and been reading several books both technical and no

• Update: ASP.NET FormsAuthentication Flaw

  Posted: 07 Oct 2004 at 10:57 by Benjamin Lovell

  Microsoft have made a release regarding the recently uncovered ASP.NET forms authentication flaw. Read it here.

• Fritz Onion on DotNetRocks

  Posted: 04 Oct 2004 at 16:25 by Benjamin Lovell

  "Noted author and software engineer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, the HTTPContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of A

• Serious flaw in ASP.NET FormsAuthentication module

  Posted: 01 Oct 2004 at 11:35 by Benjamin Lovell

  A flaw has been uncovered which allows a malicious user to bypass the usual ASP.NET forms authentication mechanism by replacing the forward slashes in a URL with backslashes or "%5C" - the hexadecimal equivalent. For example: An existing secured URL: http://www.yourwebsite.com/admin/default.asp