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A Passion For Your Craft

Fri, 15 May 2009 01:02:22 GMT

Creating realiable, scalable, and useable software takes skill that is developed over many years of practice, study, and most importantly: failure. When you move on, where does all this experience go?

Why Joel Spolskey and Jeff Atwood are Brilliant A-Holes

Thu, 14 May 2009 01:16:47 GMT

So have you seen the latest from the FogBugz/StackOverflow partnership floating around? Yep I'm talking about StackOverflow Dev Days (crowd ooh's and ahh's).

Wikipedia Maze

Fri, 08 May 2009 21:19:15 GMT

The last few months have been crazy. My wife had our first baby girl in March, I spent a lot of time preparing for our user conference at the end of April, spent a lot of sleepless nights building a dental charting tool in WPF, and cranking out code on my latest invention....Wikipedia Maze.

First Official Alt.Net Meeting

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:10:37 GMT

We had a great first meeting for the Charlotte Alt.Net user group. We had a pretty good turnout and fairly interactive group which I think is key to having a successful meeting. Of course an interactive group also means extra long meetings, but it's well worth it. (Sorry I was so late getting home Honey. I'll make it up to you).

Why I switched from WordPress to BlogEngine.Net

Fri, 08 May 2009 03:00:26 GMT

So sick of running WordPress on IIS I finally gave up and switched to BlogEngine.Net.

ControllerType is null when creating a Custom ControllerFactory

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:43:57 GMT

Fixing a common error when setting up a custom ControllerFactory in asp.net Mvc. Example shows setting up dependency injection with Structure Map.

Top 4 reasons to join or start a local Alt.Net group

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:08:37 GMT

Last night I went to the first Charlotte Alt.Net User Group meeting. Everything went really well thanks to Matt Lefevre and Brady Gaster. Kudos to those guys for getting this thing off the ground. Also thanks to Brian Hitney from Microsoft for his on-going support. Here are my top 4 reasons to join or start a local Alt.Net group

Saving Changes Is Not Permitted - Management Studio 2008

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:45:41 GMT

Annoying little "feature" in Management Studio 2008

ASP.NET MVC: Choosing Your Data Access Method

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:50:11 GMT

The author breaks down some of the reasons and tradeoffs for using either SubSonic, NHibernate or L2S in your DAL using ASP.NET MVC.

Implementing OpenId with ASP.Net Mvc

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:48:48 GMT

A tutorial on how to get started using OpenId with your ASP.Net Mvc site.

Model-View-ModelController- My Take On MVVM - Introduction

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:27:31 GMT

I'm currently in development on a very large application and I will be writing a series of articles on the structure in which it is built including what I am calling Model-View-ModelController; a cross between MVVM and MVC.

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) - The Model-View-Controller Patte

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

About a month and a half ago I announced that I am writing a book, I was really overwhelmed by the amount of support that I received from this announcement. Both myself and Al are really looking forward to the day when this book ships, and we start receiving real feedback on all our hard work. However, both of us would like to start receiving feedback as soon as possible, so. In an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided to open source the last chapter, Chapter 2, that I have to write. I am doing this so I can receive feedback on this chapter as early as possible. Because this chapter, in my opinion, is probably the most critical of the book, it defines the context around ASP.NET MVC and how it differs from ASP.NET Web Forms, as well as giving a historical perspective of the MVC pattern.

Solution: Styling a large amount of controls

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:41:40 GMT

Using Attached Properties to apply styles to a large amount of controls.

Command Bindings in MVVM

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:03:06 GMT

An example of how to define Commands in a ViewModel and bind to them in the View.

Finding the Best Approach to Styling a LOB App

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:31:15 GMT

Explores various approaches to styleing buisness applications in WPF.

HeaderFormatString and ContentFormatString

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:42:50 GMT

Exploring how to use the HeaderFormatString and ContentFormatString properties, and uncovering some of their weirdness.

Consolidating XAML Namespaces

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:38:12 GMT

How to consildate XAML namespaces.

WPF Record Navigator (VCR) Control

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:48:18 GMT

A WPF Record Navigator (VCR) Control

Changing the Data Template for the Currently Selected Item

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:56:26 GMT

Change a Data Template for the Currently Selected Item in a Listbox

Handling "GO" Separators in SQL Scripts - the easy way

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:46:02 GMT

use SMO to run SQL scripts on .NET