Portland Code Camp happens in just a couple of days from now – a number of Elegant Coders will be making the trip out to Portland to present or just hang out: I’m presenting on ASP.NET MVC & Opinions, and will walk through building a sample app in MVC talking about the parts that you’ll […]
Read MoreOut of the box, the ASP.NET MVC framework is very bland – it provides the hooks to add conventions and functionality, but doesn’t provide much in the way of structure itself. To get the most benefit out of it, you need to add in your own set of preferences, conventions, and behaviors. In the book […]
Read MoreThe past few weeks I’ve been working with a great team at IQ Interactive. Everyone is open and eager to learn Expression Blend and Silverlight, and I so badly want to teach/show them. More often than not though, time is not a friend which makes it critical to identify what people need and want to […]
Read MoreSome of us folks from ALT.NET Seattle have been working on putting together a workshop for developers in Olympia, WA, focusing on Software Craftsmanship – which, to us, means caring about our craft and applying the principles we know work to what we are doing. The workshop is inspired by some of the discussions started […]
Read MoreA major annoyance of mine after installing a new instance of Visual Studio is when I open a XAML document for the first time. By default, Visual Studio opens a XAML document in Preview mode (the design on the top and the code view on the bottom). As you start adding more and more elements […]
Read MoreWhile I think agile engineering practices are step 0 in building an efficient agile team, there are few of the ?soft? practices which seem like low hanging fruit for a team that wants to grow more efficient over time. In my opinion, the most bang for the buck comes from Retrospectives. Disclaimer: I am far […]
Read MorePrevious posts in series: FubuMVC From Scratch Part 1 ? Basic project structure setup FubuMVC From Scratch Part 2 ? FubuMVC configuration and Controller setup FubuMVC From Scratch ? Part 3 (Adding View to project) Persistence is a requirement in virtually every application that we write today, and now the time has come for us […]
Read MorePrevious Posts in Series: FubuMVC From Scratch Part 1 – Basic project structure setup FubuMVC From Scratch Part 2 – FubuMVC configuration and Controller setup Preparing for our View Another founding principal of FubuMVC is to have little to no logic in the View, no logic is preferred. So when we add .aspx pages, we […]
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