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Should You Use ASP.NET MVC?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:01:03 GMT

There are a lot of ASP.NET web forms developers out there that admit that they don't "get it" when it comes to all the hubbub surrounding ASP.NET MVC. In some ways, I can sympathize with them. The vocal minority that raves about ASP.NET MVC gush about it with such zeal that they make it sound like you'd have to be a fool not to switch over. But in actuality, the decision isn't nearly as black and white. There has been talk about how the ASP.NET MVC framework is a web forms killer (despite the objections from those creating it), and if you listened only to them you would think that ASP.NET web forms development was done for -- cast to the wayside as an obsolete framework suitable only for amateur drag-and-drop developers.

Content Stealing Jerks

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:01:02 GMT

I've grown somewhat accustomed to seeing my articles regurgitated on some random blogger's site and passed off as their own. Usually I just send content stealing jerk (CSJ for future reference) an e-mail asking that they provide some sort of link back to my original article and leave it at that. Sometimes they comply, oftentimes they don't. In the end, life goes on. After all, it's not like I'm going to press charges over it.

What ASP.NET MVC Can Learn From Ruby on Rails

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:31:14 GMT

What I think ASP.NET MVC can learn from Ruby on Rails.

A Programmer's Plea to Laptop Makers

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:36:23 GMT

My laptop died recently and because of this I've been doing some preliminary research to find myself a replacement. It's been awhile since I've had to purchase a laptop, so I was a bit surprised when I couldn't immediately find one that I was satisfied with. For some reason I thought that finding a suitable laptop for development that met my short list of criteria wouldn't be very difficult. But the more research I did the more apparent it became that "software developer" wasn't a target demographic laptop manufacturers were trying to capture. With that being said, here's my short plea to laptop makers:

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!"

Do We Need Another Open ID Provider?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:31:07 GMT

Microsoft recently announced that Windows Live ID will be an Open ID provider, but not an acceptor. Does this really do anything to further the Open ID movement?

Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:16:13 GMT

Test driven development proponents often tend to push code coverage as a useful metric for gauging how well tested an application is. 100% code coverage has long been the ultimate goal of testing fanatics. But is code coverage really all that useful? If I told you that my application has 100% code coverage, should that mean anything to you?

10 Programming Proverbs Every Developer Should Know

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Proverbs are used to express universal truths or life lessons in a short and memorable fashion. I find that they are a great way to keep things in perspective, both in life and in work. Because of this, I have assembled 10 programming proverbs that every developer needs in their arsenal.

Custom jQuery Selector for ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:16:13 GMT

My quest for a better way to select ASP.NET auto-generated IDs with jQuery.

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

Mapping Enums To Strings and Strings to Enums in .NET

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:00:33 GMT

How to easily map enums to strings and vice versa using the Description attribute.

Debugging and the Five Stages of Grief

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:16:17 GMT

An article I wrote about the debugging process and the emotional toll it takes on developers.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Creating Full Text Catalog and Full Text Search

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:16:06 GMT

This is the first ever and complete example for SQL Server 2008 - Full Text Catalog and Full Text Search. Make sure to book mark for future reference.

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 - Create the Perfect App

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:46:03 GMT

n this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC Forums application from start to finish. The goal is to discover and promote best-practices for building applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this first entry, I discuss the overall goals for the forums application. I discuss the importance of avoiding code smells and how software design principles and patterns can help you write code that is resilient to future change. I also justify my choice to use test-driven development while building the Forums application.

Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:01:12 GMT

.NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you programmatically manipulate the way your garbage collector acts. This can be done through changing the value of a new property of the System.Runtime.GCSettings class named LatencyMode. In this article I will walk you through this new property and the different effects of each of it's possible settings.

Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) using ASP.NET MVC's AntiForg

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:46:02 GMT

Steve Sanderson covers an attack that is not as well known as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks called Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and some helpers in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 that can help mitigate the risk.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

Free SQL Server Videos

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:31:10 GMT

Free Training and Videos for Microsoft SQL Server. Hours of content covering tips and tricks, along with a whole slew of videos on backups. The site is still growing and there's an RSS feed you can use to be updated of newly added videos.

Amazing web design articles of Summer 2008

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:22:06 GMT

This is the second part of best summer 2008 articles, but this time focus is on web design. Again, there was a lot of great articles, tutorials and resources but I wanted to keep this list as short as possible. So these are the best of the best, at least by my opinion.

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

High Quality Image Resizing with .NET

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Even though you just shrinks images, the quality of produced images is usually worse than the quality of original images. Learn how to use interpolation to resize images with a better quality.

Exploring System.Web.Routing

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:31:11 GMT

An overview of the new System.Web.Routing namespace that was included in .net 3.5 SP1.

Visual Studio Tip: Split Views

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:01:08 GMT

There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about.

10 Invaluable CSS Resources

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:01:13 GMT

First things first. I'm an application (middle tier) developer. My design skills while adequate, are not by any means what I'd like them to be. Like a good geek girl, I've been working on this. I've put together a list of very helpful CSS resources I've stumbled upon in my quest to improve my presentation layer skills. I thought I'd share them: