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One Brit off to Mix11 by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

This time next week, I'll be on a plane heading over to Mix 11. If you're heading there, then please get in touch, I'd love to talk to you about either Windows Phone 7, iPhone development with MonoTouch, Android development with Mono for Android as well...

On the way back from Mix 09 by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

AT&T have kindly opened up their internet for the weekend (at Philly airport) which gives me a good opportunity to update my blog a little bit. This week I popped over to Las Vegas for the Microsoft Mix 09 conference. A conference which puts together...

Great Fridays dot Com version 0.11 is live! by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1158701480 We finally got a site up on the tubes for Great Fridays - go check it out!

ASP.NET MVC RC1 Is Out! by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference... After being in Beta for a month or two, the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 is out and ready to download. Scott Guthrie put together a gigantic post on the features of this release - which heavily focuses on tooling support and bug...

MVC Storefront by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference... Last night I finished watching the MVC Storefront videos; Since April 2008, Rob Conery has been putting together example videos of building a real world ASP.NET MVC app called the MVC Storefront. Through these videos there have been...

Great Fridays - A new start with ASP.NET MVC by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

For the past 9 months I have been working at Lightmaker Manchester. Since last Friday I am now working at Great Fridays (GFGP Limited) with the same great team from Lightmaker Manchester, with the same enthusiasm and skills from Lightmaker Manchester...

Oxite - The ASP.NET MVC CMS by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

The guys over at Channel 9 have created the first blogging engine/content management system (CMS) based on the open source ASP.NET MVC framework. It's named Oxite and is avaliable to download now (in a Alpha version) on the Codeplex website . The first...

DDD7 Grok Talk - Open Source and Microsoft by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

This weekend I attended DDD7 , a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom...

WebForm Gripe - Getting LinkButton to work without Javascript. by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

WebForms is a sort of love/hate thing for me. There are some things I love about WebForms and then there's quite a few things that really cause me a lot of pain. Sadly, the ones that cause me a lot of pain are the ones that stand out. I might turn these into a little series - depending on how many of these gripes show up and how many I can remember! Most of these gripes are probably me just not understanding WebForms correctly, I'm willing to learn so any pointers in the right direction would be good. The first one that I'm going to write about is the LinkButton control. For the most part it's a nice control, which allows a method to be called when a normal anchor link has been clicked. The problem occurs when the method is only called via a Javascript PostBack method in the href attribute. What this does is stop people who do not have Javascript running on their browser (for whatever reason that may be) from using the site. ...

First look at Monorail.. by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

I might be behind the times a little bit but for various different reasons I have delved back into the world of MVC for ASP.NET with Monorail - an open source framework which runs on top of C# and ASP.NET....