Exploration of Thought

I have another DimeCast that went live this morning. This one is entitled “Exploring Expressions with Spark.”. Here’s what we cover: ”We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and…

I was recently was helping out a collague with an ASP.NET MVC problem and I was given a link to a solution. I opened it and got this message: Which ends up giving you the following in the solution explorer. The reason I’m getting this is because I never installed the ASP.NET MVC bits, well,…

I have a new DimeCast up! The title is above. In this DimeCast I cover …  how to utilize both global variables and local variables. We will also take a look at how to create and use both strongly typed viewdata and weakly typed view data. To view the episode, click here.

Sometimes you need to audit everything you do in a transactional system. A lot of standards such as SOX and others state that you must audit your transactions. Doing this by hand inside of your system can (and usually is) a huge PITA. However, it is a necessary evil in some instances. However, if you’re…

I heard the Bing.com “Bingtones” (ringtones) earlier this week and, well… wasn't really that impressed. Personally I feel that if you’re going to try to take over the search engine market you better come with with the best in all categories. If you are going to try to represent that massive takeover mission with some…

I recently decided to strictly use my professional audio equipment when recording my DimeCasts instead of the cheap LogicTech headset set that I have. I currently run a GrooveTube GT55 Condenser microphone. However to run this I need a preamp. I have a MAudio Mobile-Pre and in order for this thing to work you have…

  I will be giving my “Testing with Mocks” talk at the Minneapolis ALT.NET meeting this September 17th. Be sure to sign up on the www.mplsalt.net site as space is limited. See you there.

I have a new DimeCast that went live today. Its entitled “Learning how to add Intellisense for the Spark View Engine” In this DimeCast we do exactly what we set out to do, get Intellisense up and running in Visual Studio 2008 with the Spark View Engine. There are many more dime casts on the…

The Minneapolis ALT.NET Meeting will be held at Central Library in Downtown Minneapolis at 6pm in room N-202. Registration is required so please sign up here. Space is limited so hurry and sign up! In this presentation Louis DeJardin will be giving an introduction to the Spark View Engine. This is the same view engine…

I make music with the MPC1000 and every time I start a new sequence I find myself naming my tracks the same, over and over and over. This takes a few minutes each time I start and is productivity play dough (it slows me down). 90% of the songs I create have the same track…

In the latest DimeCast I recorded I developed the demo app while running the ASP.NET Development Web Server. A colleague of mine, Tim Schmidt, caught an error (thanks Tim). If you are going to run your ASP.NET MVC site on IIS 7 (which is highly likely) you’ll also need to add the following lines to…

I recently completed a small series on the Spark View Engine for DimeCasts.net. The first episode “Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine” has been posted. If this interests you be sure to check this blog or DimeCasts.net for new episodes.