20 Jan 2011

Quick and Dirty Feed Parser 1.0 Released!

Without further adieu, it’s my pleasure to announce that the full 1.0 release of Quick and Dirty Feed Parser is now available to download on Codeplex.

Here are the main reasons why you should care about Quick and Dirty Feed Parser 1.01:

  1. Works on Windows Phone 7 and...

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18 Jan 2011

What Drives a Startup Founder?

I’ve been working on numerous projects since the year began, and on Sunday night I finally got around to watching The Social Network. My expectation was that the movie was going to be a breathless attempt by Hollywood to insert themselves in something cool and relevant, a...

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14 Jan 2011

Getting Started with AppHarbor – Heroku for .NET

I’ve a lot of friends who are proficient Rails developers, many of whom who have left .NET for Rails.

The one piece of consistent feedback that I hear back from them is that it’s the frictionless Ruby-on-Rails ecosystem that is so attractive; moreso than the Ruby language or the Rails...

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12 Jan 2011

6 Really Useful Windows Phone 7 Articles

I’m in the midst of working on a line of related Windows Phone 7 MVVM Light applications which are all built on the upcoming release of Quick and Dirty Feed Parser, which includes Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 support.

I found the following articles to be really useful in...

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06 Jan 2011

How to Use Asynchronous Controllers in ASP.NET MVC2 & MVC3

The primary reason I added asynchronous methods to Quick and Dirty Feed Parser 0.3 was because I wanted to use QD Feed Parser in conjunction with asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC3.

MSDN has some excellent documentation which explains the ins and outs of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET...

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03 Jan 2011

How to Make Any Operation Asynchronous in .NET

I’m in the middle of writing some updates to Quick and Dirty Feed Parser for use in a new personal project of mine; namely, I need to make QD Feed Parser work asynchronously so I can use it in conjunction with asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC3, and eventually Silverlight...

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28 Dec 2010

Upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 2.0, Updated Extensions

BlogEngine.NET 2.0 was released just before Thanksgiving this year, and it includes a bunch of major changes, the most noticeable of which is the drastically improved admin dashboard.

There are also a number of external-facing improvements too such as jQuery out of the box, SEO improvements, and so forth. I...

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25 Dec 2010

Quick and Dirty Feed Parser 0.3 Now Available

My Christmas gift to the developer community: Quick and Dirty Feed Parser 0.3 is now available on CodePlex!

The big feature added in this release is the ability to perform IFeedFactory.CreateFeed operations asynchronously both for disc IO and network IO. I added this to QD Feed...

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24 Dec 2010

Fluent NHibernate: How to Create Bidirectional Many-to-Many Relationships with Additional Attributes on Relationship Table

Suppose you have a relationship that looks like this in your database:

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This is a common use-case. In this instance, I wanted to be able...

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13 Dec 2010

Los Angeles Azure 101 Event - 12/16/2010

Just a quick post for any readers in the Southern California area who are interested in learning more about Windows Azure. My team is putting on an event at Microsoft's Los Angeles offices on Thursday morning from 9:00am to 1:00pm and its intent is to help introduce Azure to...

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