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Sometimes I write apps for charities on the side. Recently I've been doing some charity coding on the side for The Red Pump Project . They are a non-profit focused on raising awareness about the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls. I encourage you to check them out, donate some money, or join their mailing list . Side Note: Folks often ask me how they can get more experience and wonder if Open Source is a good way. It is! But, charities often need code too! You may be able to have the best of both worlds. Donate your time and your code...and work with them to open source the result. Everyone wins. You get knowledge, the charity get results, the world gets code. Anyway, this charity has a Google Spreadsheet that holds the results of a survey...
The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better) as well as what the package itself does. Today, it's imageresizer . Bertrand Le Roy has long been an advocate of doing image resizing correctly on .NET and particularly on ASP.NET. Last week he posted a great post on a new library to choose...
I did some basic mobile view engine work for ASP.NET MVC for Mix in 2009 and then created what I thought was a better ASP.NET MVC Mobile ViewEngine in 2010 . Unfortunately, the second one (the "better" one) had a caching bug that only showed itself in Release mode. This last month, Jon, John, Peter and I updated NerdDinner to MVC 3 with Razor and a pile of other new features . One of those new features was jQuery Mobile support and that meant we need to fix this bad Mobile View Engine. Additionally, ASP.NET MVC 4 will include actual supported Mobile Views support , so the pressure was on. However, we wanted to make sure any new MVC 3 Mobile View sample was mostly compatible with whatever scheme ASP.NET MVC 4 uses. The original folder...
I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse , an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH , and amazing logger and error handler. Now the triad is complete with MiniProfiler , my Package of the Week #9. Yes, #9. I'm counting "System.Web.Providers" as #8, so phooey. ;) Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.4, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.4 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is...
Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.3, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.3 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better...
Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas. MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements. All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here . I’ll be doing a few posts in the upcoming weeks that also cover some highlights from it. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update One of the announcements I made in my Day 1 keynote was the release of an ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update . This update is a small, but very tasty, update that includes a bunch of really nice tooling improvements for ASP.NET MVC 3. You can install it from the http://asp.net/mvc site (just click the installer). The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools...
Last week I was in Belgium and The Netherlands speaking at TechDays. A number of those videos are online at Channel 9 . It was a great time. Here's the talks I gave. Sorry there's three screenshots of my big head to follow. DevDays Keynote The first 10 minutes or so of this are in Dutch, but you can fast forward to my part if you like. I'm about 20 min right after Arie stops talking. I talk about what Microsoft has built this year, what we are doing around Open Source, and how I see things snapping (and how they snapped) together from VB3 until today. NuGet In Depth: Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform In this talk I start from the absolute basics of NuGet, how to make and publish a package and I work up to my thoughts on...
Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.2, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.2 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better...
Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the videos online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11 Second, you can get them via RSS. Most major browsers are hiding the RSS button these days, but the discovery metadata is all still there. In IE9, for example, if you show the Command Bar, you can see the RSS Feeds for the Mix site: What's all this awesomeness? Oh, yes, it's the Mix talks via RSS with enclosures, just as you've always wanted. Now you can list the thousand ways that you might retrieve these lovely files and...
It's Day 1 of the Mix 11 conference here in Las Vegas. I work for the Web Platform and Tools (that's ASP.NET, IIS, IIS Media, etc) group and I did the Web Platform demos for Scott Guthrie's part of the keynote. A lot of people in Dev and QA worked hard all year long to make some fun and cool products and as the designated "talking head," I had just 16 minutes to make all of them (people + products) look good. I hope I did them all justice. We built a backend and a front end for Rob and my sie http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com . The show is something Rob Conery and I do moonlighting on the side (it's our hobby, not our job nor a Microsoft thing) but we needed a new site and this was a fun idea since we built the original...
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