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            In the course of some of our work on MarkedUp, we discovered an interesting gotcha with MVC4, embedded views, and ASP.NET pre-compilation.  A little back-story:  One of the things we did as part of...
          
        
      
        
          
            August 14, 2011
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            I announced this on Twitter late last week, but I open-sourced a number of common helpers and service interfaces that I use throughout all of my production ASP.NET MVC applications and wrapped it i...
          
        
      
        
          
            June 30, 2011
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            One of the first projects I put together this year was Captain Obvious, a nifty little application that runs off of AppHarbor and ASP.NET MVC3. What made Captain Obvious special for me was that it ...
          
        
      
        
          
            June 24, 2011
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            One of the more interesting things I had to do as part of building XAPFest was handle bulk image uploads for screenshots for applications and user / app icons. Most of the challenges here are UI-ce...
          
        
      
        
          
            June 21, 2011
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            I made a tiny splash on Hacker News a month ago when I asked for feedback on my newest side project, CaptainObvio.us – a simple portal for sharing ideas and soliciting feedback from a communi...
          
        
      
        
          
            March 27, 2011
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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 Obviou...
          
        
      
        
          
            March 16, 2011
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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&rs...
          
        
      
        
          
            January 14, 2011
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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 fr...
          
        
      
        
          
            January  6, 2011
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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.
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            December  7, 2010
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            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 atte...
          
        
      
        
          
            December  6, 2010
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            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:
ASP.NET MVC3 Installer
ASP.NET MVC3 RC Whi...