16 Mar 2011 1 minute to read

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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20 Jan 2011 2 minutes to read

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 3 minutes to read

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 4 minutes to read

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 2 minutes to read

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 5 minutes to read

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 5 minutes to read

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 2 minutes to read

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 2 minutes to read

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 6 minutes to read

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:

fluent-nhibernate-complex-many-to-many-mapping

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

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