DotNetShoutout is a Web 2.0 style social news site for .NET developers running on our open source project KiGG . Background KiGG was started as a fun project to get familiar with the new ASP.NET MVC framework and with no exception I started to hear terms like DDD, BDD, SOLID, DRY, Law of Demeter, Testability...

As mention in my previous post that I will be discussing the technical side of KiGG . So this is the beginning and it will be a multi-part series. I will try to put as much detail as possible, do let me know if I missed anything. Just for a recap, KiGG is Web 2.0 style social news application where I...

In the latest release of ASP.NET MVC, a new attribute ValidateInput is introduced which is same as Web Forms ValidateRequest page directive, certainly a good choice. Phil Haack blogged it , so as Steven Smith and also Nick Berarrdi . But it starts to break when you want to accept html tags from your...

I was looking  for an Ad Rotator for DotNetShoutout , as the sponsors are coming and most of them wants to show different images for the site and as well as in the feed. Certainly, I can use the built-in AdRotator control for the site, but it does not at all feels MVC-ish. So I decided to create...

If you are familiar with YSlow recommendations, I guess you know that it recommends to put your CSS files at the top( #5 )  and JavaScript files at the bottom( #6 ) of the pages. Placing the CSS files at the top is not an issue but putting the JavaScript files at the bottom of the pages has some...