Hibernating Rhinos

Setting up MonoRail Windsor Integration with Binsor

Ayende Rahien — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:17:17 GMT

I think I'll let it stand on its own:

facility Castle.MonoRail.WindsorExtension.MonoRailFacility 
for type in AllTypesBased of Controller("HibernatingRhinos"):
	component type.Name, type

Done.

I didn't believe it, to be fair.

Paying for Hibenrating Rhinos

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:39:40 GMT

I have been producing the Hibernating Rhinos screen casts for over a year now, and so far, I have offered them free of charge.

Estimated cost of producing a single screen cast is 3,500$ - 10,000$ each, considering the amount of planning, recording & editing that goes into them.

I am thinking about making the new episodes available for a fee, something in the 10$ - 25$ range.

I would like your opinions in this matter,

~ Ayende

Hibernating Rhino 8 - Going Distributed as Torrent

Ayende Rahien — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:01 GMT

Edward Connolly was kind enough to setup Hibernating Rhino #8 as a torrent file.

You can get the torrent from here: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1286587

Hibernating Rhinos #8 - Going Distributed & Building our own Bus

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:56:25 GMT

Well, I was toying around with the idea for about a month or so, and finally I got around to actually record & editing that.

Highlights:

Vastly improved sound quality. I think you'll enjoy it.
Vastly extended in time & scope. For some reason, this screencast is longer than many full length movies. We also write our own bus implementation from scratch, and discuss the implementation details there.
This is more of a low level discussion, not a high level architectural discussion about why you want a bus (well, I do talk about it a bit, but mostly we implement the bus).
The first 45 minutes are dedicated to moving from an old style RPC to an async batching bus approach, that still uses the request / reply. The rest is dedicated to building the one way, message passing, queue based, service bus.

There are some interesting challenges there, and I hope you'll make sense of my grunts as I write the code.
The last hour or so of the screen cast it live coding, and you get to see how I revert some design decisions as they turn out to be problematic.

The technical details:

Total length: An hour and forth minutes(!)
Size: 160 MB
Code starts on 04:31

Go to download page

How did it get to that point?

Ayende Rahien — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:11:44 GMT

Just finished recording Hibernating Rhino #8, somehow, it is 1 hour and 40 minutes long.

Then again, we get to implement a full service bus and some variations.

Hibernating Rhinos 7: Rhino Igloo

Ayende Rahien — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:32:37 GMT

I got quite a few requests for more information on this, beyond the short documentation in this post. This is not something that I was very happy with because I feel that Rhino Igloo represents a compromise that I am not very happy with. Consider this the product of a developer longing for MonoRail while having to deal with WebForms world.

I am not making excuses for this project, it is meant to serve a very specific goal, and it has done that very successfully.It is also extremely opinionated and may not fit what you want to do.

Length: 57 minutes
Download size: 79 MB
Code starts at: 11:14

You can download the screen cast here. There is a secret message there, let us see if you can spot it.

Update: looks like the file I uploaded is corrupted, I'll upload a new one soon, in the meantime, I removed it from the download page.

Update 2: Uploaded a good version, it is available now.

Hibernating Rhinos 6 - Code Search Engine

Ayende Rahien — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:40:02 GMT

This is a screen cast that was spawned as a result of the discussion in the ALT.Net about the ideal IDE. Glenn Block mentioned that something that would be cool is:

Ability to instantly search for a specific artifact (kind of like Google / windows live search). As I type it in, I see the filtered results.

I like challenges, and I happened to know some components that can make this very easy, so I set out to build the foundations of a code search engine that can match the above requirements. Now, refining it to the point where it is usable should take about a day or two, I think, but all the basics are there.

Length: 28:07:00
Download size: 40Mb
Code starts at: 1 minute mark

This is basically glue code, so be aware of it. It meant to show you how, not to actually show production level code to handle all the required scenarios.

You can download the screen cast here. As usual, the sound quality is probably suspect, and I recorded it at 2AM, so I am not sounding my best there.

Hibernating Rhinos 5: Hot Code Swapping

Ayende Rahien — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:34:12 GMT

After reading about Erlang, I got very excited about doing hot code swapping, and always on applications. I decided that this is something that would be cool to do on the CLR. So I did, it was very easy.

The screen cast is a short one, less than 25 minutes, but it covers all the concepts, and we have dynamically updated code in the end. :-)

As usual, the sound quality is suspicious, and I am probably speaking to fast.

Total length: 00:24:12
Download Size: 34.2 Mb
Code starts at 2:05

Memorable code:

I think it is telling that I am using the Command pattern to print hello world.

You can get the code here

Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #4: Hibernating Forums - Part I - Testable & Painless Persistence

Ayende Rahien — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:00:45 GMT

Okay, here is the first episode in my OR/M challenge series. It mostly deals with the MonoRail skeleton project and with setting up the domain model in a TDD fashion. I am not sure how interesting it is, because about 60% of it is building the Active Record entities, and explaining how it works, but it lays a foundation that I will use for the next few episodes.

Lots of Um..., I am afraid, but at least I am speaking in a normal speed :-)

Total length: 55:44 Minutes
Download size: 77Mb
Code starts from ~4 minutes into the episode.
Getting the Latest code - will be updated for new episodes
Getting the Code from the episode

The download page is here: http://ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx

I have some ideas about where to take the next episode, but this is something that is mostly dependant on your feedback :-)

Hibernating Rhinos Status

Ayende Rahien — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:21:27 GMT

Well, I have finished the first episode of the OR/M Challenge, and it is now in the process of being uploaded to the server. I am going to sleep, based on some good advice that I received, so I will do the actual publishing in the morning.

What is really interesting is the numbers you can see here: http://ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx

Nearly ten thousands downloads for each of the previous episodes? Wow!