Modifying Tree Node Text in the Umbraco Backend
I’m currently working on rebuilding the http://dotnetda.org site using Umbraco and I have created the usual assortment of document types: speakers, meetings, sponsors, etc. For meetings, the name of...
View ArticleChapters and Seasons
As many of you know I stand firmly against the new TSA screening procedures and indeed I have been quite vocal about them. I cannot accept that men, women and children are forced to play russian...
View ArticleNYC Give Camp
Next year, January 14-16, Microsoft is helping to organize a National Day of GiveCamp. We at DevExpress are proud to have been asked to help organize a GiveCamp in New York City.What is Give Camp?Give...
View ArticleThis operation requires IIS integrated pipeline mode
I’ve been working on a few ASP.NET MVC demos recently, one of which uses a custom ActionResult to send an iCal file back to the user. As part of the custom ActionResult I add a Content-Disposition...
View ArticleGeek Food Drive Is Back In November
I’m excited to announce that we’re back again this year with Geek Food Drive! The challenge is simple: for every user group to hold a food drive at their November meeting this year. So many folks go...
View ArticleMemo: Zune Desktop Software Usability
I am quite disappointed at how the Zune desktop software user experience has not improved and the product groups don’t drive usability issues.Let me give you my experience from this afternoon:I have...
View ArticleI’m a Rock Star!
Ok, I might be exaggerating a little, no one is carrying my bags through the airport yet, but I discovered today that my very first song is available at several premiere online music services! I’m...
View ArticleThe Power of Community
Today is the day I finally get to announce something very exciting for me; I’ve joined DevExpress as a Developer Evangelist! I’m super excited about it! To get all the details, check out my new...
View ArticleRecursive Fields in Umbraco with XSLT
I’ve been working with Umbraco quite a bit lately and I’m really loving it as a content management framework. I’ve already converted GeekGive.org, GeekRoadTrip.com, and I’m working on a few others....
View ArticleCode Recovery Services
Do you have a .NET assembly that you’ve lost the source code for? Has the assembly been obfuscated thereby rendering tools like Reflector useless? I have done a few community talks entitled “May the...
View ArticleCommunity Event Website Tips
Every user group, conference, or other community event has a website. It’s a great way to provide easy accessibility to event information. Except a good number of sites don’t do that very well. I am...
View ArticleVisual Studio Project and Solution Version Compatibility
I should be able to open a Visual Studio 2008 solution in Visual Studio 2010 and still be able to open it in Visual Studio 2008 again. Currently, I cannot do incremental upgrades across a team of...
View ArticleThe Code Coverage Mirage
In an online Q&A webcast with Scott Hanselman today the topic of Code Coverage was raised. One audience member asked what the optimal level of Code Coverage is. The answer is that there isn’t an...
View ArticleWhat is Community?
I’ve travelled the world and the seven seas… ok, ok, just North America, but since September of 2007 I’ve had the opportunity to visit nearly 100 community events from user group meetings, code camps,...
View ArticleTips for Releasing Sample Code
When I’m learning a new technology, I’ll frequently download code samples that help me better understand the concepts. Often though I find myself frustrated by having to deal with formatting and...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code Formatting
Working on a website in Visual Studio I found myself annoyed again by the extra spaces around <script /> tags when I type Ctrl+K+D (Format Code). It turns out however that this is easy to change....
View ArticleHelp Rebuild New Orleans At Tech·Ed NOLA
Just announced, registration is now open for Microsoft Tech·Ed 2010, June 7-10, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tech·Ed isn’t the only reason you should come to New Orleans though.It has been four years...
View ArticleSerialization Generics
I really dislike writing the same code over and over again. For my current project, this involves serialization and I ended up creating the following generic class to handle Xml serialization and...
View ArticleUX Fail
I’ve been developing software for over ten years now. In those ten years software technology has grown by enormous leaps and bounds. User experience however has not. I’d argue that user experience has...
View ArticleShotokan Development
Note: There is still so much more I want to say on this topic, but that will have to wait for another post as I further distill my thoughts.At the end of my three week stint in Redmond, WA in October...
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