Exploration of Thought

If you disable your "save" button on your MVC views when the page first loads and want them to be auto-enabled when any input on the form changes, you can do that with the following jQuery snippet. This is sort of a hack*, but it works. With this HTML and this javascript: You'll "enable" the…

You can get the code from tonight's talk on my GitHub page, located here. The code includes the actual application and all files required to run the app. Enjoy!

I just gave my talk at the Twin Cities Code Camp. Thank you for coming out! Below you will find the materials from today's talk: Code (on GitHub) Presentation (on SlideShare)

If you're not doing anything on April 17th at 5pm, you should come on down to the Microsoft offices for the second annual XNA Fragathon. From the XNA Group: "Come on out and join us at the 2nd Annual Fragathon. [...] The short version: 5pm - whenever Microsoft 8300 Norman Center Dr, Suite 950 Bloomington,…

The 8th  Twin Cities Code Camp is this weekend (April 10, 2010). I'll be giving a talk on getting started with Android Development. If you're interested in developing for Android, this session is for you! Here's some more info: Session Abstract In this session, Donn will delve into the basic requirements for you to get…

DimeCasts.net just published my latest screen-cast titled: "Hello World, I am Win Phone 7" I cover the basic of a File --> New Windows 7 Phone Application and talk about the emulator for a few minutes. Enjoy. Watch the Screen-Cast Note: I do not cover installing the tools, Peter Henry does a great job of…

*** Update ***: I've also created a cheap jQuery plugin for this as well. See the bottom of the post There's a lot of talk on Twitter today about IE6. I'm building a web application in my free time and I didn't want to support IE6. Will I lose users? Yes, a few, but I…

Update: I'm now teaching Android related courses over at Caster.IO (along with a bunch of other industry pros). Be sure to check that out if you're into video content. :) Want to learn Android? Don't have time to read a book? TekPub.com has released a new series, produced by yours truly: In this series I…

I've been developing Android apps for awhile now and at times the emulators are SOOO big that they litterally consume the entire screen real estate and its very difficult to navigate through the enumlator. I was very surprised when I started up the WP7 emulator and started finding out how simple it was to scale…

Tonigt I downloaded the WP7 Developer Tools on a new VHD (Boot to VHD). I'd I'd have to say ... its super easy. File --> New As soon as the tools are installed you can select File --> New Windows Phone Application, as seen below: Selecting a new Phone app, I was able to get…

I’m using the ASP.NET MVC REST Toolkit for a REST API I’m building for a mobile infrastructure. Long story short, it will be responsible for service hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users through their mobile phones and rich applications (Android, iPhone and eventually the WP7 Phones). The one thing that the Toolkit did…

I apologize for being a bit late on posting these ... Here are the slides from last Thursday's "What's New in MVC2" talk at the Twin Cities .NET User Group Meeting. Download Slides