I’m playing with ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. There is new default application template available for ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications. New template is modern, has better look than current one and has better support for different screen sizes. In this posting I will show you how new template looks like. When you create new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No próximo dia 8 de Outubro irei dar um pequeno workshop, de 3 horas, nas instalações da Flag, em Coimbra: Se tiverem curiosidade, apareçam!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
