Archives
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POP Forums, the beta, coming in January
(Channeling that guy from Futurama:) "Good news, everyone!" POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 is looking like an actual product right now. I kind of dropped off of the preview releases to CodePlex, but rest assured, it's coming along swimmingly. My plan is to post the first beta in January, probably after MVC3 ships. Stay tuned!
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Windows Phone 7 review
I finally got around to composing some thoughts on what I think about Windows Phone 7, and I posted those impressions on my personal blog. I'll save a few bytes and not repost it here.
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Windows Phone 7 with your Mac
Yes, I might report to the Death Star every morning and Darth Ballmer (and I like it, too), but it's true that I still have plenty o' Macs around the house. I'm just not able to be religious one way or another, even for the company I work for. But you may have heard that Microsoft was buying their employees Windows Phones, and today was the first day we could get them. Truth be told, I was converted a long time ago, when I saw some of the first demos.
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Preview updated for POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 Beta 1 posted to CodePlex
Just a quick note to let folks know that I updated the October preview for the forum app to use the new dependency injection hotness found in beta 1 of the next ASP.NET MVC framework. Get those bits here.
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October preview of POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 posted to CodePlex
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Twitter sucks and must be run by amateurs
I can't say that I've ever known any kind of Web-based service to suck as much as Twitter, yet be as simple and popular. It really boggles the mind.
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September preview of POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 posted to CodePlex
Here it is, the third preview release of POP Forums v9. It's starting to smell like a real application now. New since the last release:
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POP Forums v9 preview is going to be a little late
I mentioned with the July preview of POP Forums v9 that there would be an August preview. There will be, but I'm not sure it'll hit in August. It's really starting to feel like an actual app now, and I'm very excited to see it coming along. Unfortunately, I haven't found enough time lately to deliver the things I said would be in this preview. Being a new dad can be like that!
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Microsoft is...
It sounds like something to write in a one year anniversary post, but I have to say that I get slightly annoyed at what people say Microsoft is. It's the typical news story and blog comment noise, and I probably shouldn't care, but it still annoys me. The company is simply too huge and diverse to make a lot of generalizations.
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My first Nerd Dinner
I went to my first Nerd Dinner today. For those of you not aware, our fearless community ninja manager, Scott Hanselman, organizes get togethers for code monkeys and the Microsoft folk that love them. It's a great chance to get out and meet people, find out what they're doing, swap stories, and get a little insight into what's going on around Microsoft as well.
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July preview of POP Forums v9 posted to CodePlex
Get it while it's hot and juicy, my friends. The second preview for the ASP.NET MVC forum is available at http://popforums.codeplex.com/.
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Coding rules, self-debate and formatting a string in your view
I was thinking to myself about how I wanted to format dates in a particular project recently. I said, "Self, is it wrong to use an extension method inside a view to do this?" I was clearly distracted with something else, so I didn't answer, but then The Gu did the Twitter to this gem by a guy named Chris, and he says it would not be cool.
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"I'm gonna go ahead and..."
Please... I beg of you... if you give talks or do video recordings demoing programmer stuff, stop saying, "I'm gonna go ahead and..."
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POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC: Now on Codeplex!
For those who have followed my blog for the last six years or so, you know that I've always had a love-hate relationship with the forum app that sits at the core of my own Web sites (CoasterBuzz being the "money maker," so to speak). For more than a decade, I've had POP Forums in my life in one way or another, dating back to the old ASP days. At times I sold it, then I gave it away, then I gave it away hoping you'd give me money for it. Today, I can safely say that the next version is going open source. For good.
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SQL ADO.NET shortcut extensions (old school!)
As much as I love me some ORM's (I've used LINQ to SQL quite a bit, and for the MSDN/TechNet Profile and Forums we're using NHibernate more and more), there are times when it's appropriate, and in some ways more simple, to just throw up so old school ADO.NET connections, commands, readers and such. It still feels like a pain though to new up all the stuff, make sure it's closed, blah blah blah. It's pretty much the least favorite task of writing data access code. To minimize the pain, I have a set of extension methods that I like to use that drastically reduce the code you have to write. Here they are...
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The standards that fail us and the intellectual bubble
There has been a great deal of noise in the techie community about standards, and a sudden and unexplainable hate for Flash. This noise isn't coming from consumers... the countless soccer moms, teens and your weird uncle Bob, it's coming from the people who build (or at least claim to build) the stuff those consumers consume. If you could survey the position of consumers on the topic, they'd likely tell you that they just want stuff on the Web to work.
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Exciting product releases (and one disappointing thing) with Mix10
Sadly, I'm not at Mix this year, for the first time in a few years. It's a little harder to go if you work for Microsoft, oddly enough. And then there's this little guy next to me, who at ten days old really needs his daddy to be around! But oh, the excitement of what Microsoft has in store!
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Using Ninject with ASP.NET MVC 2
My favorite dependency injector, Ninject, has ascended to v2! I like this framework because it's small and doesn't have a bunch of external dependencies. It does take a little extra work to get it rolling with ASP.NET MVC 2, however.
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Where to find the jQuery 1.4.1 vsdoc file
If you're like me and you were trying to update your ASP.NET MVC 2 RC2 project with the latest and greatest, and couldn't figure out where the new scripts are, they're here:
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Variations on a simple repeater in ASP.NET MVC: A table/gallery
There are times where I've decided that I didn't want to get too deep into a mess of markup in my views, which drives me to writing a simple HtmlHelper extension method. It's a convenient and quick way to introduce slightly more robust display logic into the view.
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Current technology stack
Every once in awhile, I feel like I've changed enough stuff around the technology that I'm using to take a sort of inventory. Mostly I just want to be able to refer back to it the next time I feel compelled to do so.
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ASP.NET MVC: Why your dislikes may be wrong
Wow, so I keep talking about how I want to write more, particularly now that I'm an "insider" working in Redmond, and yet it has been a month since my last post. But hey, I've been here two months and I just finally spent some time in downtown Seattle for the first time last weekend, so get off my case. :)