Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC

published 11 days, 2 hours ago, submitted by dengar007 11 days, 10 hours ago

frickinsweet.com — Ryan Lanciaux discusses a class for retrieving Gravatar images -- this class was mainly written to facilitate using Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC. read more...

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Helper Class : QueryString Builder (chainable)

submitted by EtienneTremblay 26 days, 1 hour ago

weblogs.asp.net — If you are a web developer you would definately have worked with the querystring. Most of the time you are just getting values from the querystring or adding querystring values to url's, but in some cases the querystring can really become a hassle to work with. read more...

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SQL Server - Restore a database backup via the command line

published 1 month, 1 day ago, submitted by EtienneTremblay 1 month, 8 days ago

blog.lavablast.com — This article presents how an SQL Server 2005 database can be restored from the command line with one quick batch file. Ex: restore.bat LavaBlast read more...

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BlogEngine.net Post Security

published 3 months, 8 days ago, submitted by EtienneTremblay 3 months, 9 days ago

blog.lavablast.com — BlogEngine.net 1.3/1.4 supports user roles. But we can't seem to be able to make it mandatory for users to sign in to see blog posts. That's not something you usually want on a public blog, but maybe for a corporate blog. read more...

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Visual Studio Theme Generator

published 3 months, 15 days ago, submitted by dengar007 3 months, 15 days ago

frickinsweet.com — A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think. read more...

2 comments | category: Other | Views: 436

Recursing into Recursion - Memoization

submitted by dengar007 3 months, 21 days ago

codebetter.com — Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on Recursion. In this post he deals with memoization (speeding up your programs by avoiding repetitive calculations for previously processed function inputs). This is a great read; especially if you are into functional programming. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC: Avoiding Tag Soup : Rob Conery

published 3 months, 25 days ago, submitted by EtienneTremblay 3 months, 25 days ago

blog.wekeroad.com — "Every time I do a demo or post something about MVC, I invariably get the comment: "this is Spaghetti Code from the bad old days of ASP Classic". Gimme a break. Have we been handheld for so long that we forget how to do this stuff?" read more...

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Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 3

published 3 months, 29 days ago, submitted by dengar007 3 months, 29 days ago

codethinked.com — Part 3 in a multi-part series on learning Ruby using IronRuby and C#. Justin continues his series using familiar C# code to explain Ruby programming concepts. In this post, he goes over static methods (class methods in Ruby), parameters, conditionals and loops. read more...

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