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Simple Table Control in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:28:17 GMT

How to build a simple but relatively powerful html table control to render IEnumerable collections such as Linq query results.

Windows Mobile Twitter Client - Quakk goes Open Source

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:01:49 GMT

If you're interested in participating with the development of Quakk or just want to have a poke around in the code, then you can download the source from Code Plex.

Twitter Reply EMailer .NET Source

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:42:46 GMT

Source code for a simple .NET application that sends you notifications of your Twitter replies.

Never forget a thing thanks to Powershell and Regular Expressions

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:10:38 GMT

Quirky, geeky post about how you can use Powershell and Regular Expressions to help you with a technique to remember facts and figures.

Sending SMTP Email Asynchronously

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:16:09 GMT

Sending email using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) can be a slow process, particularly when sending large numbers of messages using, for example, a bulk email tool. This process can be accelerated with considered use of asynchronous sending.

Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:01:03 GMT

As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com.

Windows Live writer update (preview)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:01:10 GMT

The update for windows live writer is now available.

One-Click File Upload for IE in ASP.NET

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:51:19 GMT

Upload files using a hyperlink rather than a File Upload box and a Submit button. It uses one click instead of two, and takes up less room on your page and looks a lot nicer.

Empty EventArgs (EventArgs.Empty)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:01:03 GMT

How many times have you written an event whose event handler just takes in a generic EventArgs object and when you raise that event you pass in new EventArgs()? Turns out the EventArgs class has a static read-only instance field EventArgs.Empty.

Firefox as an IDE

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:46:01 GMT

"Although I prefer IE7's native speed and feel for day-to-day browsing chores, there's no doubt that Firefox is my primary web development IDE. Whenever I need to troubleshoot HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, I immediately reach for Firefox. That's primarily because of two incredibly powerful developer extensions for Firefox: Web Developer Extension and Firebug"

What should I choose for my primary key?

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Naturals? Idents? GUIDs? Oh, jeez. Getting an official opinion on which to use is about as hard as getting a lawyer to tell you exactly when its okay to shoot somebody. NOBODY wants to give you a straight up answer. And you can understand why; there are many different things you have to consider, each of which can take you in a completely different direction. This article is an excellent listing of each type and its pros and cons. Protip: Idents are your best bet. From www.codinghorror.com.

Some C# Coding Guidelines at patrick.veverka.net

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:31:01 GMT

Some friends and I have compiled a list of C# coding guidelines from many sources.