I made a tiny splash on Hacker News a month ago when I asked for feedback on my newest side project, Read More
Announcing XAPFest – A Massive Windows Phone 7 Hackathon in Santa Monica, CA on June 4th 2011
I am pleased to announce something very exciting that Microsoft is doing in my neighborhood of Santa Monica, California: we’re putting together...
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Having Network Connectivity Issues with the Windows Phone 7 Emulator?
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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How to Create a Twitter @Anywhere ActionFilter in ASP.NET MVC
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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8 Lessons Learned from Startup Weekend
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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ASP.NET MVC3 / Razor: How to Get Just the Uri for an Action Method
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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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:
- Works on Windows Phone 7 and...
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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...