Web Dev And Stuff

LinkedIn OAuth Library Update

djsolid — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:31:52 GMT

Version 0.3 of Linked OAuth Library is available via Nuget.

This release has a dependency in Hammock Nuget package.
I have also uploaded the source code at Bitbucket and it’s available to fork it!

RazorJS - Source code available!

djsolid — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:59:04 GMT

As of today you can find RazorJS’s source code available on BitBucket. Feel free to download the code and change it to fit your needs. [read more…]

PetaPoco and Spatial Data Types

djsolid — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:18:40 GMT

PetaPoco is a micro-ORM for .NET and Mono. If you haven’t see it yet I suggest you to check it out. Alternatives to PetaPoco are Massive and Dapper. (If you know more projects let me know).

After this brief introduction let me begin by explaining the problem. I need it to build a simple web app with a fairly simple data model that was using Spatial Data. The app would use SQL Server 2008.

Let’s consider a table with a bunch of columns and one of them is a geometry column. [read more…]

RazorJS - Write Razor inside your Javascript files

djsolid — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:20:32 GMT

Many times I have a Javascript file that contains a link and in order to be more generic I would prefer writing something like ~/image.png rather than /image.png or /myapp/image.png.

Also when one of my Views in an MVC project interacts with 3rd party components and services (like Google Maps, UserVoice etc.) contains a lot of Javascript code along with html/server-side code. [read more…]

Why I Still L.O.V.E. ASP.NET WebForms

djsolid — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:17:00 GMT

Objectives

Build Contact Page (a page that interacts with a data-storage)
Build a Contact List Page (a page with a gird)
Do it using ASP.NET WebForms
Create Unit Tests

We will use the MVP pattern and the open-source project WebFormsMVP to accomplish that! [read more…]

Where is the bug? - C#

djsolid — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:44:00 GMT

Below are a few lines of code written in C#. Is the code bug-free? What will this print in the console? Can you do it without VS? [read more...]

ASP.NET MVC - Passing a Flag Enum to an Action as Parameter

djsolid — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:53:54 GMT

A flag Enum is an Enumeration that can hold multiple values per instance An example of such Enum is: [read more…]

ASP.NET MVC 3 - A RadioButtonList for Enum Properties

djsolid — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:52:13 GMT

ASP.NET MVC3 doesn’t have a built-in RadioButtonList helper and there are times that I want to display an Enum property. I can always do that using a [read more…]

Detect if Firebug is enabled and deny access

djsolid — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:50:11 GMT

Firebug is an essential tool for every web developer. It allows to do many things such as script debugging, DOM manipulation etc. What happens though when it get’s to the hand of an experienced attacker? Then it could [read more…]

Hope Driven Development - Are you doing it?

djsolid — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:00:20 GMT

HDD (and it don’t mean Hard Disk Drive ☺) is intuitively a bad approach on Software Development. If someone tells you that many times is doing Hope Driven Development, only by name you might say “Oh that’s [read more…]

JavaScript is disabled - Should I Care?

djsolid — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:36:00 GMT

Many times a Web Developer faces the question “This won’t work if JavaScript is disabled. Should I change it?” If it’s something simple like a read more…

ASP.NET MVC SubmitLink with jQuery - Using an a tag as a submit button

djsolid — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:07:12 GMT

The easiest way to submit a form is to use the input tag with the submit type [read more…]

Visual Studio - A Common Replace Scenario

djsolid — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:39:46 GMT

Visual Studio has a build in Replace function that uses Regular Expressions. Let’s consider the following scenario:

Although it’s not “good” code many times a developer has to write the following code [read more…]

Creating classes in Javascript - Prototype method

djsolid — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:51:41 GMT

Javascript is weeeell a script-based language. But over the years it has evolved a lot! So can we develop in an Object Oriented Way using javascript? [read more…]

A simple SQL quiz

djsolid — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:50:22 GMT

Today at work a colleague came up with a really interesting question. Let’s consider this [read more…]