In the Javascript world, the hot topic these days seems to be jQuery .  Microsoft is beginning to see its value, and DotNetNuke is baking it in in their 5.0+ release.  For me, it just makes sense to add it to my portfolio. When I take the time to learn any sort of new technology I make an attempt...

.NET is now more than eight years old, and some of its APIs got old with more grace than others. System.IO in particular has always been a little awkward. It’s mostly static method calls ( Path.* , Directory.* , etc.) and some stateful classes ( DirectoryInfo , FileInfo ). In these APIs, paths are plain...

Last Sunday, I published version 1.0 of my little FluentPath library . This library, which is a fluent wrapper around System.IO, started as a little experiment / code sample and has been met with some enthusiasm from some of you so I spent quite a bit of time over the last few months polishing it and...