How To: Flush Response Buffer in Castle MonoRail

I recently had a MonoRail project where client-side performance was becoming a problem.  A Portlet (an extended View Component) in our master template was calling a web service multiple times during page generation, which often caused a delay in the browser download and therefore caused user complaints, which (naturally) led to our client complaining.  For [...]

Should the web be object-oriented?

The enterprise-level development community has long held the stance that Object-Oriented Programming (OO or OOP) is the best method of developing software.  But does this really apply to web development? For almost a decade, Microsoft has devoted its web technologies to the principle that HTML should be OO.  ASP.NET WebForms is still their Internet flagship.  [...]