I've been asked this lots of times: why Castle hasn't reached 1.0? To be honest, nothing much, but as I'm a perfeccionist I decided to make some things better (and my my top priorities) before going 1.0. DynamicProxy rewrite DynamicProxy plays an important role on castle and several other projects outside castle umbrella. However it has some limitations to overcome. I'm working on it on my spare time and hopefully will have something to be tested this month. After completing it I'll have to work...

If you're around Olympia, WA, you should stop by and attend to Chris Bilson's presentation on MonoRail. Quoting ssdotnet web site: "Developing web based applications is full of challenges and pitfalls: session state, view state, post backs, control trees, and page lifecycles. How many times have you heard the dreaded, “I clicked refresh and it debited my account twice!?!?” A number of people have come up with clever ways to simplify web apps. Some don’t actually make it more complicated. Let’s talk...

I started the second part of the series on the plane while getting back to my country. I tried to dive into the initialization process. Hope you enjoy it

I started a series of articles with an ambitious goal: demystify ActiveRecord. This will hopefully create some AR hackers in time. So get some coffee and read All you wanted to know about Castle ActiveRecord - Part I

Funny job ad: Senior Software Engineer (C#) We’re looking for the you! Must be able to be bend software with your mind, create hugely scalable web sites, program like the wind, and not get dizzy while confronted with two huge 20” monitors. We use a lot of C#, .NET, MonoRail, Indigo. We like to drink beer and eat CheezIts. Btw, if you want to apply for this job, see pluck web site And another thing: these guys developed the awesome Shadows...

Comment posted on Introducting Castle Part II: I have to agree with you on this, Hamilton - even when I first started looking at Rails (a few months ago) and went, "oh boy, Castle's like Rails but on .NET... but what's this NVelocity thing?"... I was never worried about it being hard to use. If anything, it seems too simple, too procedural after working with server controls for years and years. For me, it's taken a couple of months working with ERB in Rails to really appreciate its simplicity; I'd...

Andre has just directed me to the files of his presentation on MonoRail. Great stuff! One thing, though: scaffolding works great. I don't know which problem he might have had. I thought the documentation on the scaffolding has cleared all questions :-(

Jason Nelson has announced on Castle-devel list that his project, built using MonoRail, is going online: http://www.carbonmade.com/ It seems very nice and the usage of routing made some nice urls. Congrats to Jason and his team