a few years ago i have blogged about singletonitis. another place, different people, yet the same problem appears again – singletonitis. the issues i have outlined back then where 1. testing 2. difficulty to replace implementation 3. requirement to track all the location where singleton is utilized once we need to replace it. i’d like to look into these again and re-address this .. .. ..
WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows
tomasz janczuk and steve sanderson are having entirely too much fun. i posted just two weeks ago on installing and running node.js applications within iis on windows – are you mad? when tomasz and the team got node.js running rather nicely under iis. now they've got a nice little development environment in webmatrix. cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria then, steve and tomasz .. .. ..
Workshop Novidades ASP.NET 4.0
no próximo dia 8 de outubro irei dar um pequeno workshop, de 3 horas, nas instalações da flag, em coimbra: se tiverem curiosidade, apareçam! .. .. ..
Making WCF Web Async Apis
one of the hidden gems that you can get today from the wcf web api source code in codeplex (wcf.codeplex.com) is the support for the task-based asynchronous model introduced in .net 4.0. the new model simplifies a lot the way you do asynchronous stuff in .net, and it’s going to get even better with the async support in c# 5. the idea here is that you represent an asynchronous operation with a .. .. ..
ASP.NET MVC 4 Enhancements to Default Project Templates
the asp.net mvc 4 provides an additional project teamplate for mobile web application. the new project dialog is shown below the project templates that are used to create new asp.net mvc 4 projects have been updated and provide a nice and modern looking user interface. the home page using the new project template is shown below the new project template provides adaptive .. .. ..
Broken Styles and Loading Alternate Themes Dynamically
i decided to play around with the option of loading alternate themes dynamically. i found a few gotchas i’d like to share. first off, i have my theme set in my web.config as normal. <pages stylesheettheme = ” swish ” but in my page, i override my masterpage and theme with another during the page_preinit. me .masterpagefile = .. .. ..
Netduino powered tracked vehicle, Part 1
posted from my personal blog at chrishammond.com a couple of weeks ago i picked up this tamiya tracked vehicle chassis kit with the intention of using it with my netduino . i put it together, but didn’t get around to doing anything with the kit and the netduino until tonight. part of the reason i didn’t get it going was the fact that i didn’t have my adafruit motor shield together, i .. .. ..
ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview Released
microsoft has announced the availability of asp.net mvc 4 developer preview. the following are the some of the new features of asp.net mvc 4 developer preview. mobile project template based on jquery mobile enhancements to default project templates recipes for code generation in visual studio task support for asynchronous controllers you can install the .. .. ..
