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I’m working with SharpArchitecture as the basis for a new project at work, and found a small surprise when trying to add a view: No MVC items anywhere in that list. Sure, it’s not a huge hassle to create a webform page and change the details so it inherits from ViewPage, but I’d like to have the ease those templates provide. The reason those templates don’t appear is that the SharpArchitecture template is generated such that it doesn’t depend on ASP.Net MVC being installed on the development machine. This helps for compatibility with...
Happy to say I managed to back up the data, test drive 2.1 locally, and push it up to the site here to finally run on Subtext 2.1.
True credit goes to Phil Haack and the guys on the SubText team for making an OS blog engine that "just works".
2008 was a pretty good year: I left a job where the path forward was to abandon my .Net skills in favor of learning Java, and returned to Progress Energy to develop and support .Net applications. I was elected President of TriNUG, and given the opportunity to stop whining and start making TriNUG better. I started using Twitter, and really grew my community of peers by dozens. I feel like if I don't put something down for where I want to be at the end of 2009, I will spend much of the year drifting about. So here...
RDU Code Camp was yesterday (Nov 15). It was just an awesome time. From what folks say, it went very well. I'd like to thank all of the folks who made this possible:
Chris Love - Chris was the original driver for doing another Code Camp this year. He took the lead on getting the speakers and sessions together, and stepped up to handle the emceeing on the event.
Rob Zelt - Rob secured all the swag for the event, resulting in some very happy folks when they left yesterday afternoon.
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RDU Code Camp is this Saturday, Nov 15, from 8:15am to 5pm. Door open at 7:30am.
It promises to be a great day full of developer-oriented content. In addition, there will be an Open Spaces, and an XBox 360 for playing Rock Band! Lunch will be provided, and there are prizes at the end - hope to see you there!
There have been numerous postings announcing that Microsoft is going to start shipping jQuery alongside Visual Studio. If you haven't read about this already, see Scott Guthrie's post.
This is wonderful news for the developer community for many reasons.
First, the acceptance of jQuery by Microsoft should be contagious. A lot of large enterprise organizations get their software from Microsoft, and their software tools from Microsoft. The rule in those circles seems to be "No one ever got fired for using Microsoft", and so, Microsoft tools tend to dominate the short list of what can be used in an enterprise environment. With...
RDU CodeCamp is coming!
Nov 15, 2008 at ECPI in Raleigh we will be having the RDU CodeCamp. Registration will be coming soon.
Currently, we are actively seeking speakers! If you are interested in speaking at RDU CodeCamp please drop us a line at http://www.codecamp.org/Speakers.aspx - We would love to hear from you.
I've had the opportunity to do some code archaeology lately, and have found a few lessons that bear repeating when it comes to comments. There are a few patterns in use which need to be addressed:
Big Wall of Text
This long, rambling preamble can be found in many legacy applications. Though it does have some use in often providing a name to the faceless coder that is causing you such grief, other than that it has little reason to exist:
/************************************************************************NAME: testPURPOSE: REVISIONS:Ver Date Author Description--------- ---------- --------------- ------------------------------------1.0 7/8/2008 1. Created this package.*************************************************************************/
This is a Comment
Really just a statement of the...
I've started really stepping up my interest / learning in Ruby, and had one of those "this is great!" moments I wanted to share.
At work, we've been pulling some names, etc out of the DB that aren't kept in the correct case, but need to be presented in an eye-pleasing manner to the user. How do we do this?
Since we're talking about strings, a first check of the string class yields ToUpper(), ToLower(), but no CapitalizetheFirstCharacterAndLowercaseTheRestPlzKThx(), so we will have to keep looking.
Capitalization of names is affected by the culture, so this may be found in System.Globalization. ...
On Wednesday, Aug 13, Jeffrey Palermo will be talking about separation of concerns, dependency injection, and test driven development with ASP.Net MVC. This should be an excellent discussion on some of the benefits in using the new MVC framework for ASP.Net.
There are some important points to underline about this meeting:
It will be awesome.
Registration is required to manage headcount, especially for our dinner arrangements. To attend, you must register on the site.
This meeting is not at RTI. The August 13 meeting will be held at ECPI.
This should be a...
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