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Results – Community Radio Narration Contest
The contest deadline has come and gone, and I received four submissions. After reviewing the submission I have determined that they were all great, so whoever sends me $500 first… just kidding. I’ve...
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Community Radio Episode One
I’m proud to announce that the inaugural episode of Community Radio has been published: http://live.ineta.org/audioIn this inaugural episode, I talk with Richard, Carl and Sara about Speaker Idol,...
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European Union Says No to Free Dessert
As reported all over the web this week, Microsoft has decided to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer. For a long time, the EU has been complaining that Microsoft has been using their...
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Community Radio Episode Two
I’m proud to announce that episode two of Community Radio has been published to http://live.ineta.org/audioIn this episode, Steve talks with Heather Kostes, Emily Freet, and Nicole Moser about their...
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Static Page Checking in ASP.NET MVC
If you have built an ASP.NET web forms site of any substance, you have undoubtedly been bitten when code in the web form becomes outdated due to code change. It’s easy to see when the page is open in...
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LINQ: Porting jQuery’s Each
As some astute readers pointed out, this functionality does in fact exist in LINQ. The name isn’t terribly obvious however: Aggregate. I was able to update the original tests to use the Aggregate...
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Pop Quiz: .NET Integers, Unit Testing, and Boundary Checking
I ask this question in a bunch of my talks, mostly because most folks aren’t aware of this. What is the bug in the following method?public int Add(int num1, int num2) {return num1 + num2; }Do you see...
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Running T4 Templates with MSBuild
If you haven’t explored T4 yet, you’re missing one of Visual Studio’s best, and best kept, secrets. T4, which stands for Text Templating Transformation Toolkit, is code generation built right into...
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Reflection-Based Performance Analysis
Back in 2007, I took some SharePoint training from Todd Bleaker (MVP, owner of MindSharp, and SharePoint guru). At one point he posed a question about the performance of the following methods:public...
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jQuery and MVC: JSON
I strongly dislike synchronous browser requests: the request has to be sent to the server, server action is performed, a server response is received, and the page is re-rendered which usually involves...
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Favorite Image Icons with jQuery and MVC
User experience, that’s the name of the game these days. Green screens and console applications are (hopefully) becoming a thing of the past. In the web world, this means a more fluid and asynchronous...
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jQuery and MVC: JSON Form Submission
In my last two posts (jQuery and MVC: JSON and Favorite Image Icons with jQuery and MVC) I covered some basics of jQuery’s AJAX functionality to improve user experience. One of the scenarios which may...
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Neat Visual Studio Test Options
Digging around in Tools > Options today to find the answer to an inquiry I received, I found some stuff I didn’t know existed. If you work with Visual Studio Test Projects, you will want to know...
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Team Build Property Reference Guide
I’ve been working quite a bit with Team Build lately, and overriding properties is a method of customization I’ve found quite useful in certain scenarios. Along the way, I found Aaron Hallberg’s...
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NotAtPDC is back!
It’s official, we’re back again this year. As you may recall, a bunch of tweeps got together last year to organize an online-only co-conference with PDC. The results and reaction where outstanding, and...
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Shotokan 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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UX 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...
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Serialization 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...
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Help 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...
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Visual 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....
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Tips 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...
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What 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,...
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The 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...
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Visual 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...
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Community 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...
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Code 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...
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Recursive 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....
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The 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...
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I’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...
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Memo: 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...
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Geek 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...
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This 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...
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NYC 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...
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Chapters 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...
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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...
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