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As I am doing another start up idea, I have been able to implement a lot of what I have learned previously with MVC. There is talk around a few 3rd party libraries out their to perform specific tasks designed to help speed up development time.

MvcContrib is one of these. Looking for a better and more strongly typed way of displaying table data I ran into MvcContrib being talked about quite a bit. I also noticed the comments where 2-3 years dated. The class I … Continue Reading

My latest upcoming project I am vowing to use Test Driven Design/Development. Reading books, going through tutorials, even watching videos of rock star TDD professionals is very inspiring. The problem I am having is re-gearing my approach to code. My standard thought process involves thinking of the root level object and how to build on top of it. Where TDD should be getting straight into the real problem and top down development.

I am trying to bring TDD into existing projects but keep walking away because I convince myself writing the solution would be quicker. Deep down, I know the … Continue Reading

Using a shared hosting server has a huge advantage of cost. Especially if you don’t expect large traffic. It does provide some unique challenges when dealing with configuration though.

By default, web.config files inherit from each other. Awesome news if your building sub folders to contain micro-sites of your original. You immediately get access to all your connections, provides, and even custom classes you previously imported. But when creating sub folders within your root directory housing a different domain, things get a little messy.

After getting a base MVC site set up locally I deployed it to my shared hosting solution. The first thing I noticed was the … Continue Reading

A big challenge I had with moving from a full Entity Framework solution to adopting a POCO set was managing state. Since my project was working well and I went to POCO I starting picking up issues with data not saving.

A huge issue was logging into the webapp. Obviously the most important function. The application tracks the logged in user via a session token saved to the database. After many frustrating tests and a half solution I thought was working, I finally found the ObjectStateEntry wasn’t keeping track of the object. The changes I was making to the object properties … Continue Reading

Saw a demo of knockout.js located here http://knockoutjs.com/ and knew I had to use it in the next project. It turned out to be just as simple as described and can’t wait to use it again.

I just installed http://www.jolicloud.com/ on a net book that now dual boots with Windows 7. I will say the 9 second boot and instant sleep resume is intoxicating. As long as this machine doesn’t get into power hungry applications (which the net book struggles with anyway) I think I will give it a run.

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