OK, 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 MoreI have a need for fax (yes, fax!) in an application I’m working on and ran across a cool little startup called Phaxio. Phaxio takes a different approach to fax than most of the dinosaurs competitors in the field. The fax API for devs. We make faxing as simple as an HTTP POST and have […]
Read MoreEarlier this month after @BoiseJS (Boise Javascript) Jason Denizac, Brett Adler and I started discussing the need for a ‘more than talking’ type of meet-up. We are all working on products/projects and wanted to create an opportunity where we can help out each out, learn, network and create a sense of ‘Hacker Culture’ here in […]
Read MoreBy definition an Entity should have an Identity. An issue that often comes up with EF is querying views which do not have a primary key. No key, no laundry. My preferred way to get around this is to create a value object (POCO) and use SqlQuery<T> to materialize results from the view. This is […]
Read MoreInteresting. When you use VS11 Beta to create a new Metro app on a Windows 8 Consumer Preview machine, you get a prompt that requires you to ?obtain a developer license? to create this type of application on this OS.? After logging in with my live ID, I get this confirmation dialog which asserts I […]
Read MoreI have been running Windows 8 Consumer Preview since it dropped, and I was running the Developer Preview before that. I was doing this on the metal of my X220T Lenovo. I gotta say, I dig it. I am not going into individual features or anything like that yet. Just sayin, I dig it. The […]
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