ASP.NET MVC In The Clouds
Quick question? What’s higher than a kite?
Read MoreThe Future of WebForms And ASP.NET MVC
I’ve heard a lot of concerns from people worried that the ASP.NET team will stop sparing resources and support for Web Forms in favor of ASP.NET MVC in the future. I thought I would try to address that concern in this post based on my own observations.
Read MoreHTML Stripping Challenge
UPDATE: I added three new unit tests and one interesting case in which the three browser render something differently.
Read MoreThe Landmine of Parsing HTML and Stripping HTML Comments
A while ago I wrote a blog post about how painful it is to properly parse an email address. This post is kind of like that, except that this time, I take on HTML.
Read MoreStep Aside StackOverflow, Here’s HaackOverflow
During my talk at the PDC, I heeded Hanselman’s call to action and decided to veer away from the Northwind “Permademo” and build something different.
Read MoreA Case Study In Design Tradeoffs: Usability vs Discoverability
Usability and Discoverability (also referred to as Learnability) are often confused with one another, but they really are distinct concepts. In Joel Spolsky’s wonderful User Interface Design for Programmers (go read it!), Joel provides an metaphor to highlight the difference.
Read MoreDonut Caching in ASP.NET MVC
UPDATE: Due to differences in the way that ASP.NET MVC 2 processes request, data within the substitution block can be cached when it shouldn’t be. Substitution caching for ASP.NET MVC is not supported and has been removed from our ASP.NET MVC Futures project.
Read MoreGrouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC
UPDATE: I updated the prototype to work against the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM. Keep in mind, this is *NOT* a backport of the the ASP.NET MVC 2 feature so there may be some differences.
Read MoreBin Deploying ASP.NET MVC
With the release of ASP.NET MVC Beta, the assemblies distributed with ASP.NET MVC are automatically installed into the GAC.
Read MoreHazy Recollections of PDC 2008
Whew! I’ve finally found a bit of time to write about my impressions of the PDC 2008 conference. If you’re looking for insightful commentary and a “What does this all mean” post, you’ve come to the wrong place. There are plenty of others providing that sort of commentary. I’ll just string together some random impressions and pics from my perspective.
Read MoreBrowser Choice and Voting Online
In my last post, I joked that the reason that someone gave me all 1s in my talk was a misunderstanding of the evaluation form. In truth, I just assumed that someone out there really didn’t like what I was showing and that’s totally fine. It was something I found funny and I didn’t really care too much.
Read MoreHot New Presentation Tip
Before giving a presentation, I review Scott Hanselman’s top 11 presentation tips. Well I have a twelfth tip that Scott needs to add to his list, and he’ll vouch for this.
Read MoreModel Binding To A List
The sample project code is on GitHub. You can play with the code as you read this blog post.
Read MoreHalloween Preview
I just can’t help myself. I said I wouldn’t be one of those parents, but forget it. I am one of those parents. I think my kid is adorable, so sue me. Check out Cody’s halloween costume. He’s with his BFF Forever, Alex the Panda.
Read MoreASP.NET MVC Beta Released!
Today we finally officially released the beta of ASP.NET MVC (go download it already!).
Read MoreOne Year At Microsoft
Today marks my one year anniversary at Microsoft. Tradition dictates that I bring in a pound of M&Ms for each year that I’ve been an employee. I’m going to buck that trend (because I like bucking things) and bring in 1 kilo of Japanese candies. Since I just returned from a trip to Japan and it is also customary to bring gifts back from a trip, this ends up killing two birds with one stone. Software is not the only place to apply the DRY principle.
Read MoreWeb Platform Installer
I’ve used the term “drinking from the fire hose” when describing my first days at Microsoft. However, I believe that a lot of our customers feel this way when approaching the plethora of options for web application development on the Microsoft stack.
Read MoreInteresting Browser Bug with CSS border and the Select element
UPDATE: Pretty much disregard this entire post, except as a reminder that it’s easy to make a mistake with DOCTYPEs and markup. As many people have told me, I had an error I didn’t notice in the original HTML. I forgot to close the SELECT tag. I’ll leave the post as-is.
Read MoreJapan Trip 2008
Just got back from our trip to latest Japan yesterday morning. On previous trips, I ate really great Yakitori, ate Blowfish and lived to tell about it, celebrated the new year, , learned about ritual suicide and played around with sharp swords, visited a temple in the midst of old Tokyo, and visited the hotel from Spirited Away.
Read MoreA Rough Start To Tech-Ed Hong Kong
I had a bit of a rough start to my first Tech-Ed Hong Kong last week. Pretty much every day while I was in Japan, I dutifully pulled out the laptop (despite my lack of internet connection) and made sure it still worked fine.
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