There was a time when I thought it might be worth it to try and create a Software Professional Code of Ethics. I no longer think the effort is worth it as there is already a big enough rat hole in this space as evidenced here. At the time this held my interest I read […]
Read MoreDon’t want to read the article? Watch the video tutorial on Xaml TV. Prism provides 4 region adapters out of the box for you: ContentControlRegionAdapter SelectorRegionAdaptor ItemsControlRegionAdapter TabControlRegionAdapter (Silverlight only) Well, what happens when you want to use a different control as a region host? Simple. You need to write a custom region adapter for […]
Read MoreMigrations are very powerful. When they work it?s awesome, but when things go wrong trying to determine what happened can be extremely frustrating. I have spent quite a bit of time mastering a process that works well for me. Here are a few pointers I have learned along the way: 1 – Do not […]
Read MoreI was monitoring my Twitter feed, like I always do, and saw a tweet come through asking about how to validate an object?s property against it?s parent ObservableCollection in the Infragistics XamDataGrid. What this person was trying to accomplish was to validate a duplicate item in his data source. They have a POCO object the […]
Read MoreOK, cat out of the bag here, Elegant Code got hacked. Most likely because someone figured out a username/password on the site. That is the boring part. Blah blah blah, use strong passwords, make sure you don’t have sql injection, js injection, etc. OK, onto the interesting part! What did the hackers do with this […]
Read MoreConway’s Law reads: Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. While it has served as a fun adage since its introduction in 1968, recent studies show evidence that Conway’s Law exists. One such […]
Read MoreIntroduction: An MVC Portable Area is really just a dll that contains the views, controllers, scripts, etc? needed to use in a website that is either a Web Forms website or an MVC website. I will cover the MVC website here. Why Use One? I have used portable areas in many projects since they came […]
Read MoreIn the previous post I wrote about my personal routing flavor for Express. For this post, I want to briefly discuss how to set up error handling using Express. In order to get up and going very quickly, we only need to add the errorHandler middleware provided by Connect. application.use(express.errorHandler({ showStack: true, dumpExceptions: true })); […]
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