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March 2010
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Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink
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– I’m starting a new series of blogs posts on profiling, where we’ll try and cover common bottlenecks and how to identify them in your applications. However, before delving deeper into the subject, let me make a small but important observation: Your bottleneck is probably not ...
February 2010
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Technological shortcomings driving business needs
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– Recent conversation I had with someone the other day: Jack: Yes, but we can’t do it like that. The business does not work that way. Me: Why does it not work that way? Jack: It’s a fundamental aspect of the business. We can’t change that. Me: And I accept ...
October 2009
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Client-Side Validation in MVC 2.0
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– ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 2 now ships with client-side validation built into the box. It follows the same idea as the xVal framework whereby you can define validation rules once and have them enforced both on the server and the client. By default, MVC uses Data Annotations which is available in ...
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Avoiding an unintentional bottleneck
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– We’re all busy these days and sometimes it’s really hard to get any work done with continuous interruptions. As developers we know that it’s hard to get into the mindset that allows us to concentrate on designing a certain class or fixing that retched bug, and any minor incident can throw us ...
September 2009
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Upcoming talks
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– Start of the “conference season” again and I’ll be doing a tour of a few countries and places. Hope to meet up with some of you at some place and time. This time I’ll try and have all sessions ready so I can spend my time more productively at the bar/restaurant - 21st to 25th September at ...
June 2009
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If you’re going to provide RAD for ASP.NET MVC, change your thinking hat
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– ASP.NET MVC is not new. Ignoring the pattern for a moment, the way things work dates back to the days of CGI’s and ISAPI’s, where you had to role out pretty much everything by hand. You would get your data, format it and send it back to the browser, producing HTML. It wasn’t easy, ...
March 2009
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Spending time with Fluent NHibernate (Part 2): Our first Relationship
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– In the first part of this series, we saw the basics of what Fluent NHibernate is about. In this second part, we're going to look into relationships and some of the mappings that FNH produces for us, as well as overriding certain mappings. Relationships Let's say we have a new ...
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ASP.NET MVC or WebForms: Is there a real choice?
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– I've been playing with ASP.NET from the first preview that was released and it's also very similar to a technology I used to use back in 1998, called WebBroker (part of Delphi). Point being, I'm pretty comfortable with the MVC approach. I also have had the opportunity to do talks and workshops on ...
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ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Material from BASTA! Italia
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– As promised, here are the materials from my talks: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Introduction to jQuery (Disclaimer: some demos aren't "cleaned up" but they should all work)
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ASP.NET MVC and jQuery @ BASTA! Italia
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– I'm off to Rome next week for BASTA! Italia, and quite excited since it's my first time in Italy. Mind you, I always say that but my trips normally involve Airport -> Hotel -> Conference Venue -> Hotel -> Airport And that's if the Conference is not held at the same Hotel. In this ...
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Balsamiq. Just wow!
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– Busy week for me this week. Between meetings, coding and real bad case of migraine, I've hardly had time to catch up with blogs or investigate new things. However, I did find a bit of time to look at two new tools, one of them being Balsamiq (the other tool, another blog post). I'd heard ...
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Few days left for Early Bird for Architecture Days
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– Just a few days left for the Early Bird fee for the iMeta Architecture Days. It's going to be a two day event in Madrid on Design Principles, Testing, and on the second day Domain Driven Design and SOA with Udi Dahan! Since it's a training event, it's going to be a small group so there's more room ...
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ASP.NET MVC RC2
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– In case you haven't heard, RC2 is now out. Mostly it's installer changes including the ability to install MVC on servers (i.e. no VS integration). You can also download the Futures assembly (Microsoft.Web.Mvc) that contains add-on's that won't make it into the first release. Eilon has made a post ...
February 2009
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DDD Series
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– If you're interested in Domain Driven Design, make sure you follow Casey's series on the subject. He does a very good job of explaining things clearly and answers many obvious questions that one initially asks when starting with DDD. Make sure you check out the comments also.
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Upcoming talks
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– I'll be doing several talks next week at two different events. At BASTA 2009 Spring I have the following sessions: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Advanced ASP.NET MVC Design Principles and Practices Introduction to jQuery All on topics I enjoy tremendously. Then on Friday I'm ...
