The 6th NYC CodeCamp was recently held at Pace University in Manhattan, focusing mostly on the Microsoft technology stack. Waking up at 4am to catch an early train into the city proved to be well worth it – the day was filled with fantastic sessions. To give you a taste of what you missed, here’s [...]
So you’re interested in building applications for the Google Android mobile platform, but you’re a .NET developer. What a perfect opportunity to dive head-first into – gasp – Java development! Fear not – if you’ve never taken the plunge into anything outside of the warm, cozy Microsoft development platform, it’s not nearly as painful as [...]
CodeGuru.com has an article called Ten Great CodePlex Projects for ASP.NET Developers in which the author, Jason Gilmore, mentions Hollywood Hackers – the demo project that I built with Kevin Hoffman to go along with our MSDN article, “Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure.” The list contains some other really great sample CodePlex projects [...]
My friend and colleague Ryan Wright has posted a fantastic article about dynamic controller and action authentication in ASP.NET MVC 2. His techniques describe an architecture without hard-coding roles into the Authorize attribute – which makes it possible to add roles to application functionality strictly through configuration – no application rebuild required. He also provides [...]
When working in WordPress or other PHP applications, it’s relatively common to run into memory limit errors like the following: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /public_html/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 699 The default memory limit setting is in the php.ini file, and many web hosts have it [...]
An article I wrote with Kevin Hoffman on Windows Azure is in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine. “Fueling Your Application’s Engine with Windows Azure Storage” discusses the utilization of Azure Queue and Table storage, Azure Worker Roles, and jQuery to send asynchronous messages to an ASP.NET MVC application and process shopping cart orders. [...]
My good friend and colleague Kevin Hoffman (known aliases: the notorious DotNetAddict) has recently posted some great stuff related to ASP.NET MVC 2. He has a great introduction to templated helpers, which will blow your mind if you haven’t looked into them yet. Basically, they allow you to automatically place partial controls based on the [...]
Recently, I was working on a website redesign project for a client. They wanted to keep some of their product catalog, shopping cart and back-end pages, but redesign their homepage while keeping the catalog’s borders and styles. The existing design had a drop shadow around the main content along with several borders. I designed a [...]
For those of you who have never used the Dependency Injection (or Inversion of Control) design pattern, it’s something you really should get up to speed on. Not only is it an incredibly powerful technique, but at some point you’re bound to get asked about it during a technical interview (especially if I interview you [...]
There’s nothing better than a good cheat sheet. For things like vi commands and XPath functions, it really pays to have a printed reference close by. Antonio Lupetti recently posted this incredibly handy (and nice-looking!) jQuery 1.3 API reference. This one’s getting printed off in my office for sure. http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/09/jquery-visual-cheat-sheet.html