Tales from the Evil Empire

This is a follow-up on that other post: Mocking indexer setters with Moq.

Don’t read too much into this, but I’d love to read your feedback on this. I’m compiling a list of stuff that smells in WebForms when used as a view engine in MVC.

Kinik just published a pretty amazing #twitcode version of a Mandelbrot set visualization in JavaScript that Jacob Seidelin wrote.

In yesterday’s post, I published the code for a simple include method for ASP.NET that I’ve been using in a couple of places, only to realize that it was fine for what I was doing but probably not very useful beyond that.

In yesterday’s post, I alluded to a simple include extension method that I like to use when I don’t care about designer support. In a comment, Andrew asked if I could share the code for it, so here it is.

Master Pages are a wonderful concept that as developers we highly value. It’s the sort of pattern that just looks like the right thing to do (to our twisted, concept hungry developer minds) and that even makes you wonder why we haven’t done it that way since the beginning of time (1990). For the record, master pages were invented by David Ebbo, who is behind a lot of the smartest things in ASP.NET.

If you’re anything like me, you probably litter your code with TODO comments, postponing random tasks for the sake of moving the project forward. And there is of course a non-zero probability that you are going to ship with those comments still in.

I quite like MoQ because it makes sense for me. Shamefully, I’ve always had some trouble understanding test code that was using mocks built with other frameworks. With MoQ, I can just grok it for some reason. It’s just super-clear to me. It doesn’t mean I have any idea how it really works but for now I’m just happy with the magic.