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How to modify the T4 templates used by Sharp Architecture

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Taking a look at how you can modify the T4 templates which are used to change the default generation behavior of Sharp Architecture

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

Whitehouse.gov: an ASP.NET site

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:46:03 GMT

This article looks into the JavaScript libraries, HTTP headers, platform and more of the new Whitehouse website. It includes statistics and some suggestions.

S#arp Architecture Beta 1.0 now available!

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:01:02 GMT

Bill McCafferty announces the beta release of S#arp Architecture, a foundation for building ASP.NET MVC application with NHibernate, complete with support for testing, IoC, and validation.

Building a Nant Script -- Part 1: Setting up the script

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:01:03 GMT

Learn how to setup your build script with Nant. You will learn the basics of using Nant to compile your application in this episode, which will be built upon in future episodes to build a more complex script.

Real Life Single Responsibility Principle

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:03:33 GMT

S.O.L.I.D. principles seem to be a hot topic. The guys over at LosTechies.com explored it last year in March as their topic of the month and did a great job of it. I know when I read blogs I enjoy when different authors post on similar topics. I find that often the different examples and explanations paint a clearer picture than can be had with only one example. I'd like to share an area where we use the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) in our application

Convert a String to a Byte Array in C#

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:28:38 GMT

How to convert a string to a byte array using various encodings.

Leaning the various ways to use UpdateModel in Asp.Net MVC

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Leaning the various ways to use UpdateModel in Asp.Net MVC. Take a look at how to use UpdateModel, TryUpdateModel and how to use an IBindable interface in conjuction with the UpdateModel. At each point we will take about the various different features that are part of this process in order to provide you a solid understanding of the process.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Released

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:41:01 GMT

Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2005.

Intellisense in Spark ViewEngine is coming

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:46:02 GMT

On the other hand if you look at the feedback from people who wouldn't consider it a viable alternative there's a definite theme surrounding Visual Studio integration in general and Intellisense in particular. So I decided a few weeks ago to muster up my courage and take another pass at the task of making a Visual Studio integration package to provide a Spark language service.

jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Video Series

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:46:02 GMT

This is a 9 parts video series for beginners to learn jQuery.

Some Thoughts on Oxite

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery's comments and thoughts on new open-source CMS project 'Oxite'. In this post he analyzed some critical issues in Oxite and suggested some solutions to optimize this ASP.NET MVC powered blog engine.

TortoiseGit 0.1.0.0 Preview

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

TortoiseSVN is being ported to TortoiseGit

SCRUM in 10 Minutes - HD Video

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Covers backlogs, burn-down charts, daily scrum, team roles and more. If you are new to SCRUM or want to teach someone else about SCRUM, this is a great resource.

Functional Programming in .NET using C# and F# (Manning Greenpaper)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:40:37 GMT

This article is partially an excerpt from a book Real-World Functional Programming in .NET. It introduces the benefits of functional pogramming, and explains the essential aspects of the functional style using F# and C# 3.0. Finally, it also shows how functional style influences the application architecture.

Taking a look at how to create a application feature via TDD

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:16:21 GMT

This is the second part of 'Creating a new feature via TDD' series where we make our test logic pass by filling out our application logic.

One PowerShell Script to download PDC2008 Videos, Code and PowerPoints

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:46:08 GMT

Yes I did it. I downloaded all 65,563,667,714 bytes and saved them as 407 files on my nice new WD Passport hard drive that I brought home from the PDC2008. And, yes I did it the old fashioned manual way: Right-Click on link and Save-As. But you don't have to do it. In this blog post I provide the metadata of all the files I downloaded and a PowerShell script that will help you automating the download process. Besides the PDC content you also get to a treasure trove of PowerShell scripting techniques ranging from dynamically generating Regular Expressions to loading meta-data form XML and CSV files.

IFileSystem Dependency Inversion Part 2

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:15:20 GMT

The second in a series of articles describing the use of DI to eliminate a dependency on the file system and enable the use of cloud storage to be swapped in/out with local disk storage.

Validation in ASP.NET MVC - part 4: example application

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:32:02 GMT

A sample application that shows how you can perform model-based validation in ASP.NET MVC, including client-side validation with jQuery.

Advices on partitioning code through .NET assemblies

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:31:12 GMT

There're many reason why you should keep the number of your .NET assemblies to the strict minimum. Learn them here.

Writing a Greasemonkey Script Using jQuery

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:21:30 GMT

Chris Missal shows how to create a very handy Greasemonkey script that let's you check if people are following you on Twitter.

Func<T> based generic initializers

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:31:28 GMT

Here is some work I've been doing to simplify initializing List<T> using Func<T>. You can build a simple method and then instead of building a loop to initialize your object you can use a one line initialization statement.

MVC Storefront Part 25: Getting Started With Domain-Driven Design

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:30:33 GMT

Rob Conery posted a new video from MVC Storefront series. in this 62 MB video he talks about DDD.

ASP.NET MVC XForms released on CodePlex

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:01:01 GMT

Just noticed there's a new project on CodePlex related to the ASP.NET MVC framework: MVC XForms. MVC XForms is a simple UI framework for ASP.NET MVC based on the W3C XForms specification. It provides a set of form controls that allow updating of complex model objects.