I spent about three hours banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why my browser could connect to the Internet but the Windows Phone 7 emulator couldn’t, and if you find yourself in the same boat as me I thought I would spare you the trouble.

Are...

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My newest project, Captain Obvious, got a fair amount of attention this week when it landed on the front page of Hacker News – one of the key features that makes the first version of Captain Obvious tick is Twitter @Anywhere integration.

Twitter @Anywhere is brand new and...

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I wanted to post this the morning after Startup Weekend Los Angeles concluded in late February, but due to the fact...

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I normally wouldn’t post something this small to my blog, but this issue bothered me so much when I was working on some Twitter @Anywhere + jQuery integration in ASP.NET MVC3 that I couldn’t help but share it.

Issue: You’re using ASP.NET MVC3 and want to be able to place...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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