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I am an Architect for Dell.com on the Engineering Excellence team. I (co)Founded MvcContrib, Should, Solution Factory, and Pstrami open source projects. I have co-authored MVC 2 in Action, MVC3 in Action, and MVC 4 in Action. I am a Microsoft MVP.
I have founded some online conferences like aspConf, mvcConf, Community For MVCBlog Series
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- ASP.Net Web Config Transform Console Utility released on nuget
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- Using sql compact for integration tests with entity framework.
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Category Archives: jQuery
Rendering A Rails Partial As A jQuery Template
A question was asked on twitter: Here’s one of the answers that I sent to rob, in the form of a gist: I’m using this solution in my current rails app and it’s a very elegant way to use an … Continue reading
Rendering jQuery Templates With Backbone Views
In my previous examples of using views with Backbone.js, I showed a simple login form that was built directly in to the page’s html markup. In a more complex app, you are likely going to load content from a server … Continue reading
Solving Backbone’s “this.model.view” Problem With Underscore.js
In my last post, I briefly touched on a small problem in the relationship between the view and the model. Here’s the relevant code, again: This is some awful code, honestly. I didn’t like it when I first wrote … Continue reading
Intro To Backbone.js: How A Winforms Developer is At Home In Javascript
Today, I was introduced to Backbone.js and I almost immediately fell in love with it. It’s powerful. It’s elegant. But most of all, it’s a set of design and interaction patterns that I have a lot of experience using. … Continue reading
Using HAML, SASS, JQuery And JQuery-Templates To Build An ASync Search
In my previous post, I talked about setting up an API that let’s me search for insurance companies. My initial use of this is to create a search box on another page in the site and have JQuery call back … Continue reading
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JavaScript Can’t Do Math – SilverlightCalculator A New Silverlight OSS Project
It’s amazing what a lack of sleep can do for the OSS World. Over the last year I have encountered numerous places where I wanted to do simple financial equations in my JavaScript applications. You know really complex stuff like … Continue reading
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Signup for MvcConf – Virtual ASP.Net MVC Conference
When: Thursday in July 22nd 8am – 5pm CDT Cost: Free Where: Virtual (Live Meeting) Register: http://mvcconf.com MvcConf is a online conference where you can learn about real experiences creating MVC applications as well about what the future … Continue reading
Also posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, Community, IIS, Usergroup
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Using ModelMetaData in ASP.Net MVC 2 to wire up sweet jQuery awesomeness
I recently came up with an approach to wiring up some jquery plugins that modify the behavior of standard input text boxes. The approach is not original by any means.I got the idea from the built in client side validation … Continue reading
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The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1
As some of you might know, About a month ago I left my almost 10 year career as a Microsoft developer to become an independent Ruby/Rails developer (a term I’m deeming “pulling a Gunderloy”). It was long overdue for me … Continue reading
Also posted in Asp.Net, CC.Net, continous integration, Deployment, MSDeploy, Open Source Software, Tools
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selenium-rspec-dsl available on RubyGems.org and GitHub
I have released my first version of selenium-rspec-dsl on RubyGems.org and on GitHub. It that makes selenium testing easier to create, maintainable, and scalable. Features: Runs on Ruby Selenium-Client 1.2.17, and Selenium-Grid 1.0.4 with Selenium RC 1.0.3 Rake Multi-Processing Tests … Continue reading
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