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...
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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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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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:
This is a common use-case. In this instance, I wanted to be able...
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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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How-To: Remote Validation in ASP.NET MVC3
ASP.NET MVC3 has been a major boon to my productivity as a web developer since I started using it at the beginning of November – the new Razor view engine has been attracting most of the attention with this iteration of MVC, but one extremely sexy feature has...
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Where Are My Windows Phone 7 Icons?
This is a quick post, but for anybody who isn’t using Expression Blend (which automatically puts all of the Windows Phone 7 icons for you in...
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LA .NET User Group ASP.NET MVC3 Lecture Notes
Putting this online for the benefit of the .NET LA User Group – this content is meant to accompany my talk on ASP.NET MVC3:
ASP.NET MVC3 links:
How to Make it Easy for New Developers to Adopt Your Open Source Project
James Gregory is one of my heroes in the .NET community – he’s the creator of Fluent NHibernate, my favorite new ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) for my ASP.NET MVC projects. James expressed some dismay earlier today when a newbie Fluent NHibernate developer posted a $100+ bounty for a...
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Consuming REST in .NET
I gave a talk at Code Camp Los Angeles a couple of weekends ago on how to consume REST APIs in .NET – the emphasis was really on understanding RESTful principles and on the OAuth workflows + implementing them in Windows Phone 7.
It was meant to be a 100-200...