MVC Strongly-Typed Action Helpers - They're Back!(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 4 days, 16 hours ago

Way back in 2009, the MVC Futures assembly introduced “strongly-typed action helpers”. They allowed you to render links using lambda expressions pointing directly to the actions on your controller, rather than using strings. Here's an alternative implementation that aims to resolve some of the performance issues they had. read more...

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Expression Trees + Generic Static Constructors(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 1 month ago

A great thing about .NET Expression Trees is you can compile them at runtime, and they’ll execute as fast as any .NET code. However, while building and compiling a tree is pretty quick, it’s best if you only need to do it once. Here's a way to do that with a generic class and static constructor. read more...

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LOLCode Parser(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 2 months, 7 days ago

LOLCode parser and compiler. Now your cat can code for you. read more...

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How to help yourself when NuGet goes down(www.xavierdecoster.com)

submitted by johnrummell(1321) 2 months, 18 days ago

Today will be remembered as the day that NuGet.org went down and broke quite some builds. While many people would love to see the NuGet team wearing a pink sombrero, there is something to say about wearing it yourself if you did not manage to work around this. Let me explain… read more...

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Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 months, 28 days ago

A introduction to Wijmo, a jQuery UI based component library, and the rational behind the decision of adopting it vs other component libraries read more...

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8 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of January 2012 (www.moretechtips.net)

submitted by MikeMore(298) 3 months, 24 days ago

Last month developers were busy with jQuery and it is time to go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins they created in January 2012. read more...

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Home Security with Kinect, Azure Service Bus, and SignalR(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 6 months, 1 day ago

Suppose you had a some scary-looking hoodlum walking around your house when you were out? You’d want to know about it, wouldn’t you? Take one Kinect, mix in a little Windows Azure Service Bus, sprinkle in some SignalR, and mix it all together with some elbow grease, and you could watch in near-real-time as sinewy folks romp through your living room. Here’s how. read more...

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JSON-based WCF in Windows Azure(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 6 months, 7 days ago

Developers need to grok Windows Azure, especially developers who want to distribute consumption of an application in a web-based API. A great use for Microsoft Azure, obviously, is to use it to host an application’s web service API layer. This post will demonstrate how to host WCF services in an Azure worker role in a manner that will offer REST-like JSON API support. read more...

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Testing SignalR Connections with NUnit(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 1 day ago

The SignalR GitHub site has an example wherein a SignalR PersistentConnection instance is used from a non-HTML client. The idea of being able to use SignalR connections in applications other than those that run in a web browser raises some interesting challenges. Likewise, there aren’t too many examples on how to use SignalR connections. This post will demonstrate asynchronously testing a SignalR connection in an end-to-end scenario using NUnit. read more...

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From the Cloud to the Client(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 10 days ago

That title sums up what this blog post will summarize and explain; how to get data instantly from the cloud – in this case, the Azure cloud platform – all the way down to an HTML 5.0 browser. The point of this exercise is to take a slightly deeper dive into using SignalR. Secondary to the SignalR deep dive, this article will explain how to use the Azure Service Bus. read more...

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The Robot Factory Code Kata(bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 13 days ago

On the drive home from my last Behavior Driven Development talk, I began thinking about the idea of Code Katas and how one might be appropriate in my future disucssions of Behavior Driven Development. Given that BDD tries to solve things in as simple and direct a path as possible, and given that BDD takes some of the lessons learned via TDD and applies them in slightly more business-centric language, a Kata would demonstrate well the effectiveness of BDD when applied to a problem domain. So, I took the example problem domain of a robotic assembly line that I've been using since I was a full-time trainer and implemented it using SpecFlow and Moq. read more...

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Geo-Load Balancing with the Azure Traffic Manager(blog.structuretoobig.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 17 days ago

When you deploy a typical web role in Azure, each instance is automatically load balanced at the datacenter level. The Azure Fabric Controller manages upgrades and maintenance of those instances to ensure uptime. But what about if you want to have a web solution closer to where your users are? Or automatically direct traffic to a location in the event of an outage? This is where the Azure Traffic Manager comes in, and I have to say, it is so easy to set up – it boggles my mind that in today’s day and age, individuals can prop up large, redundant, durable, distributed applications in seconds that would rival the infrastructure of the largest websites. read more...

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Automating Code Changes with Studioshell(www.beefycode.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 24 days ago

Jim Christopher, author of StudioShell, talks about how he used his product to scour through hundreds of thousands of lines of code to make tiny changes. He uses StudioShell to automate the task, saving potentially weeks of work in the process. read more...

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Stupid Powershell Tricks Part 1(www.beefycode.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 8 months, 7 days ago

A Stupid PowerShell Trick is any PowerShell element that has the potential to make your life or work easier. These are not full solutions to exact problems, but rather small techniques you can employ in various situations. The idea for the session came to me after going over some notes for previous PowerShell and StudioShell sessions. I found that the most frequent and at times energetic question from the audience was "What was that you just did there?" read more...

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Google+ Activity Widget - jQuery Plugin (www.moretechtips.net)

submitted by MikeMore(298) 8 months, 10 days ago

As Google+ API was just released a couple days ago, it is time to have a posts widget for it. So, this widget was created to display your Google+ profile and slides down your recent posts with any attached images. read more...

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MyNuGets - Add NuGet love to your Orchard blog(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 8 months, 27 days ago

If you enjoy using NuGet to obtain and distribute your open source work and you maintain a blog or a site using Orchard, this post's for you. I've written a widget that will allow you to enter your author name. Then, the widget will hit the NuGet OData API and find any packages published with that author name. From that, the HTML is build up through the Orchard pipeline and what you get is a nice list of NuGet projects. Check it out for yourself on the MyNuGets project page or in the Orchard Gallery. read more...

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