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Web developers. You suck.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Method to Copy Data Between Objects of Different Types

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:37:30 GMT

One thing that I find tiresome when using the various Model/View patterns is the constant copying of data between the model and the view. This is the first post in a series on a possible easier way to do this. In this post I write a method that copies the data from one interface to another based on the names and types of the properties. Over the next few posts, I will extend the code to use generics and extension methods.

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:46:08 GMT

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.

How to perform an aggregate query using SubSonic 2.1's SqlQuery

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:01:06 GMT

One of the new features is the addition of the SqlQuery class and it's ability to perform aggregate queries (along with many other features). Shows example of SQL syntax versus SubSonic's SqlQuery aggregate coding to perform SQL queries.

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo With OpenID

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Robs new Screencast - the focus in this screencast is the membership system.

6 Steps to N-Tier ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:25 GMT

Learn to move the data context of a Dynamic Data website from the web layer to a lower level. This will allow you to reuse the data context as well as any other logic or wrappers you create around the data model.

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:01:11 GMT

Silverlight Twitter widget for your Blog. Everyone wants their twitter feed on their blog. Now you can using silverlight. More...

Craig Shoemaker - Rockstar (ASP.NET) Dynamic Data Customizations

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:36:14 GMT

Craig Shoemaker shows how the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature can go well beyond what you might imagine. He provides five screencasts of how he took Dynamic Data and turned it on it's head. If you think Dynamic Data is just about boring lists and tables you should check these casts.

Software Development and Programming Podcasts

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

I couldn't find a good list of software development and programming podcasts so I created my own. Feel free to chime in with any you recommend!

Another Use for C# Using

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)

Get Checked Repeater Items Extension Method

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:46:12 GMT

Imagine you have a list of some items and checkboxes next to each item providing the ability for a user to make multiple choices and submit a result in one go. Weather you are implementing a news groups subscription, user survey or online products catalogue - the code behind is the same: we bind some object list to a data control like Repeater, add a checkbox to every item, set checkbox value to item ID.

Chris van de Steeg's blog - » jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:31:10 GMT

So, quite some things have changed in preview 3, which made me decide to change a lot in the jQuery for Asp.net mvc (jqmvc) too. To start with most radical one: I ditched the ajax.master. This little 'framework' does not rely on a special masterpage in your website from now on. Since things have radically changed, I'll start all over again on how to use this project.

MVC: Creating SSL Links/URLs

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:31:10 GMT

A couple days ago a reader sent in a question regarding how to use SSL with the MVC framework. Specifically the reader wanted to know the easiest way to make an Ajax call to a HTTPS page from a non HTTPS page. The tricky part here is to do so without hard-coding any URLs, so I whipped up a few extension methods that should make this a bit easier.

Linq to SQL Wish List

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:46:02 GMT

What do we want to see in the next version of Linq to SQL ?

Test Driven Development Naming Conventions and Guidelines

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:31:12 GMT

New TDD and experienced TDD developers will find this list of naming conventions and guidelines useful.

Convert Your Vector Graphics Image to WPF/Silverlight Code

Wed, 28 May 2008 13:16:05 GMT

Imagine you can draw some of your user interface elements in a vector drawing application like: Adobe, InkScape (free) or Skencil (free) and convert your work into WPF XAML or Silverlight XAML.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:16:07 GMT

From ScottGu's weblog - "This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some nice enhancements/refinements, as well as Visual Studio tool integration and documentation."

Speed up your Ajax apps with Google's infrastructure

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Use Google's CDN to improve performance in serving up Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools on public facing sites.

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:01:04 GMT

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a request. Web application responded by displaying a yellow message box with an exclamation icon saying that data processing is still in progress. He checked several more times, but he didn't notice that at one moment the message changed to "Account available". But the message box hasn't changed. He continued to check a few more times and eventually he realized that the request was successful. I don't know what was in the minds of developers and designers who created this application, but it certainly wasn't the user. This poor bank official was really frustrated. I can't imagine what the rest of the application looks like.

Customizing a Dynamic Data Site

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:09:06 GMT

Learn to create custom field templates, read UIHint arguments and work with 3rd party controls.

MVC Storefront, Part 10: Shopping Cart Refactoring and Membership

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:01:11 GMT

Robs new MVC Storefront WebCast

Using the DescriptionAttribute to prettify your enumerations

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:02 GMT

the article details a wrapper that can be used to get a well-formatted string version of an enumeration value by using the DescriptionAttribute to provide the formatted string. The comments includes an extension method version that works for any enum type.