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OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Introducing a new open source project whose aim is to bring the OMeta language to .net.

Rock the iPhone with ASP.NET MVC and iUI

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:16:10 GMT

An intro to using iUI and ASP.NET MVC to write web applications for the iPhone.

My "Better Know a Framework" Talk at IndyCodeCamp

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Today at the IndyCodeCamp I gave a talk in much of the same spirit as the "Better Know a Framework" series on ".NET Rocks!" The talk had no slides, but featured me in the debugger highlighting a few of my favorite (but lesser known classes). This code is included. As part of my preparation, I researched every topic covered on each show and included a brief summary as part.

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Craig Shoemaker highlights some of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available.

From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!

Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale.

How to open a project file in Visual Studio 2008 for editing

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:34:46 GMT

Shows how to use PowerCommands to open a csproj file in VisualStudio for editing purposes instead of actually "opening" the project. This gives you the visual studio xml editor as well as the built in intellisense for the msbuild schema. Its a great set of tools to install.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, People

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:46:13 GMT

A brief discussion of the Rob Conery TDD backlash, and what it says about open-source on .NET, and the community at large.

Pash - cross platform PowerShell

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:16:15 GMT

Pash is a portable PowerShell implementation written using pure .Net 2.0. It compiles on VS 2008 as well as on Mono. Provide a rich shell environment for other OSes, as well as a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to PowerShell on Windows.

Code Camp 9: Thoughts and Impressions

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:03:32 GMT

Impressions of Code Camp 9 in Waltham, MA with summaries of sessions.

How to grayout an image in .Net

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:31:02 GMT

This article shows how to gray out an image in .net programmatically. This can be useful for making "Disabled" versions of images, etc.

Testing TempData, and Mocking SessionState

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:09:50 GMT

About a month and a half ago Ben Scheirman wrote about testing TempData in ASP.NET MVC. While I can easily understand what Ben's code is doing, what I couldn't figure out is why it worked. ... So, while Ben's code will definitely work, here's an extension method that can help with mocking out the session a little more "correctly":

SharpSTS, a C# library for Information Card Security Token Servers

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:43:14 GMT

Part of the reason for the slow uptake of Information Cards has been that there hasn't been good documentation or samples on issuing security tokens. Here's an open source library to make it simpler.

Advanced mocking: auto-interaction testing

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:31:03 GMT

Great article on using mocks with legacy code. Use custom inherited mocks with flags, or use a framework like Rhino Mocks.

What Does It Take To Become A Grandmaster Developer?

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Provides an analogy between chess grandmasters and software developers including some C# examples.

Indy Code Camp Announced

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:59:17 GMT

The Indy (Indianapolis, IN) Code Camp will be held on April 26th, 2008. Sign up to attend, and present!

Google Lets You "Chatback" With Your Visitors

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:16:03 GMT

I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the integration with all my Google services. And I love the flexibility that it provides. However the Google Talk team just gave me another reason to love Google Talk. It now allows me to have direct conversations with my visitors with a simple click of the mouse on the chat bubble you see to your left.

.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Scott is introducing upcoming features of client part of .NET 3.5

jQuery for ASP.NET Mvc - part 2

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

All new and improved version of the jquery and asp.net mvc sample..

Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals?

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

Download all the .NET Reference Source at once

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:46:04 GMT

John Robbins talks about the tool he and Kerem Kusmezer created to pre-fetch *all* the .NET reference source.

For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

A quest to move away from the 50 year old style of "for loops" and embrace newer ways of getting the same job done.

Confessions of a Software Developer

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Has anybody else ever felt overwhelmed with the sheer mass of "stuff" involved with software development?