StackOverflow at PDC
First of all, I want to congratulate Jeff
Atwood, Joel
Spolsky, and
their team for the release of
StackOverflow.com. If you
haven’t tried it out, I highly recommend giving it a shot. Be prepared,
it’s addicting.
MvcFutures And ASP.NET MVC Beta
UPDATE: The MVC Futures assembly, Microsoft.Web.Mvc
is available on
CodePlex.
How a Method Becomes An Action
This is one of them “coming of age” stories about how a lowly method becomes a full fledged Action in ASP.NET MVC. You might think the two things are the same thing, but that’s not the case. It is not just any method gets to take the mantle of being an Action method.
Read MoreASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 Released
Download the MSI and Release notes here.
Read MoreStreamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET
I admit, up until now I’ve largely ignored the BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Context/Specification style of writing unit tests. It’s been touted as a more approachable way to learn TDD (Test Driven Development) and as a more natural transition from user stories to the actual code design. I guess my hesitation to give it a second thought was that I felt I didn’t need a more approachable form of TDD.
Read MoreDealing With Denial of Service Attacks
As Scott wrote last week, using a punny title I have to admire, he and I (among many others) were both the subject of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Looking through my logs, it looks to actually be a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack coming from multiple IP addresses.
Read MoreThe ABCs of Alpha, Beta, CTP
A commenter to my last post asks the following question,
Read MoreASP.NET MVC Is Not Part of ASP.NET 3.5 SP1
I wanted to clear up a bit of confusion I’ve seen around the web about ASP.NET MVC and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. ASP.NET MVC was not released as part of SP1. I repeat, ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 does not include ASP.NET MVC.
Read MoreFilters in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4
In Preview 2 or Preview 3 of ASP.NET (I forget which), we introduced the
concept of Action Filters. Sounds much more exciting than your
run-of-the-mill LayOnTheCouchMunchingChipsWatchingInfomercialsFilter
,
that I originally proposed to the team. Thankfully, that was rejected.
Better URLs With Subtext and Windows Live Writer
One feature of Windows Live Writer that Subtext supports is the ability to edit your post slug? What is the URL slug associated with a blog post? What is the URL slug?
Read MoreSubtext 2.0 Released
It’s been a long time coming, but we are finally ready to release Subtext 2.0. As I mentioned in April (was it that long ago!?), this is scaled down a bit from our original 2.0 plans. But even so, we have a lot of new goodness in here. It’s not just a bug fix release, though there are plenty of those too.
Read MoreAn Arbitrary Cycle Method For ASP.NET MVC
In his Practical Review of ASP.NET MVC, Josh Charles provides a helpful review of ASP.NET MVC from a Rails developer’s perspective. It seemed fair and balanced, and the end result is that there’s room for improvement, which we’re taking to heart.
Read MoreHey Ma, I'm On TV!
What Integrated Circuits Say About Testing Your Code
A while back I talked about how testable code helps manage complexity. In that post, I mentioned one common rebuttal to certain design decisions made in code in order to make it more testable.
Read MoreSuper Simple MVC Ajax With JQuery Demo
UPDATE: I linked to the wrong post. I corrected the link.
Read MoreHow I Got Started In Software Development
Unit Test Boundaries
One principle to follow when writing a unit test is that a unit test should ideally not cross boundaries.
Read MoreIronRuby With ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype
UPDATE 02.17.2009: I posted about a newer version of this prototype for ASP.NET MVC RC
Read MoreNotes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4
(If you want to skip all the blah blah blah, go straight to the release)
Read MoreMake Routing Ignore Requests For A File Extension
By default, ASP.NET Routing ignores requests for files that do not
exist on disk. I explained the reason for this in a previous post on
upcoming routing
changes.