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Learning the Decorator Pattern

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Taking at how we can use the Decorator Pattern in our application. The decorator pattern is a structural pattern which allows you to attach new or additional actions to an object dynamically. Using the decorator pattern provides a very clean and flexible alternative to subclassing (via inheritance) your object and thus creating an unwanted inheritance tree

11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:15:00 GMT

An in-depth analysis of the performance concerns when using a popular jQuery selector and a couple ways to dramatically speed it up, including benchmarks.

More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:16:02 GMT

In this post, I'll share some of the best practices and guidelines which I have come across while developing ASP.NET MVC web applications. I will not cover all best practices that are available, instead add some specific things that have not been mentioned in any blog post out there. Existing best practices can be found on Kazi Manzur Rashid's blog and Simone Chiaretta's blog.

How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:01:04 GMT

The problem of how to handle dates in JSON is one of the more troublesome issues that may arise when directly calling ASP.NET AJAX web services and page methods.. Since the question of how I handle this problem is something asked often in emails and in comments on other posts here, I want to address the topic with its own post.

ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:01:03 GMT

Simone writes about his impressions on ASP.NET MVC and why it has reactivated the motivation of developers on the .NET community for web development.

ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:01:11 GMT

ELMAH has been one of the most useful tools for ASP.NET developers to log errors on their web applications. Now Scott has a nice talk on how to use it even in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Cool!

Using complex types to make calling services less... complex

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:46:03 GMT

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

Setting up a minimal ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio, part 2

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:31:15 GMT

Second part on how to set up a minimal asp.net mvc solution, without the craft of the default template.

Being a software startup in a recession

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:16:10 GMT

I had not messed around with file uploads in ASP.NET MVC for a while and so when I fired up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they had made it!

Learning about the Strategy Design Pattern

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Taking a how you can use the Strategy Design Pattern in your applications. We will start off by looking at code which does not utilize this pattern and then take a look at how we can refactor the code base to utilize the Strategy Pattern.

Putting the "M" Back in MVC

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:46:14 GMT

"Trying to keep up my end of the bargain with respect to MVC and SubSonic :). I did a walkthrough of it and decided that I was talking too much and, in honor of everyone telling me "SubSonic is dead" I thought it fitting to toss in some Rob Zombie."

MVC Storefront is now Kona : Screencast

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:31:19 GMT

MVC Storefront - changes directions to a flexible, pluggable Open Source community application. This screencast is all about that change and what's become of the MVC Storefront.

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.

Creating SOLID Code: Dependency Inversion Principle

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:01:04 GMT

Taking a look at how to create SOLID Code: Creating SOLID Code: Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP). This is a last episode in a series where we will take a look at each of the parts the SOLID Princi

Building a forum application, Part 1

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:27:56 GMT

I have decided to build a forum application. My goal is to build a generic forum that people can use and learn from. I want to use the latest techniques and tools to build a good application base that is easy to extend with the functionality that you require. I will post here from time to time as I progress to hopefully get some feedback on the stuff I do "wrong" or "right" and hopefully someone will learn something from this.

jQuery live() and ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:33:42 GMT

The jQuery (1.3+) live event and why you have to know about it when working with ASP.NET Ajax asynchronous postback. This post also sums up what you can use to make your jQuery $(document).ready() call work also after an asynch postback took place.

What makes a system hard to work with?

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:41:36 GMT

What makes a system hard to work with? ...

System.Linq.Enumerable.Aggregate - Better Know an Extension Method Par

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:31:02 GMT

Learn how to harness the power of Aggregate a powerful new extension method brought to you by System.Linq

Understand Unit Testing and TDD: Getting Better Code Coverage

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:56:44 GMT

How do you approach testing your code? The author goes through how to think about testing- what to look for, what to analyze, and how to structure your unit tests.

ASP.NET Ajax, JQuery

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:28:57 GMT

A little while back I came across a great post on how to use JQuery to do more efficient client side paging by Dave Ward. The sample shows you how to use JQuery to do Ajax callbacks for client side paging using a grid template. After downloading the demo and parsing through it all, I found a lot of things I really liked and even came across a little gotchya with the way ASP.NET serializes dates in JSON.

LINQ Distinct, a DataTable and the IEqualityComparer<T>

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:00:29 GMT

In a recent situation I was trying to pull some aggregates out of a DataTable using LINQ. I needed to get the rows of the DataTable with a Distinct clause, but my aggregates would be on other columns of the row.

Caching the results of Linq queries

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:30:56 GMT

Source code and implementation discussion for a "FromCache" extension method which can be applied to any LINQ query.

ASP.NET MVC: Avoiding Tag Soup : Rob Conery

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:46:15 GMT

"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?"

Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance pr

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:35:23 GMT

Load dynamic pages 5 to 20 times faster by compressing response on the fly. Serve static files (js, html, css) 10 to 100 times faster by compressing and caching their content. Improve repeated site load time by maximizing caching on browser.