Exploration of Thought

Communicating changes back to a source developer during a remote code review (when the review is done while the developer is not near) can be very difficult. Emailing the thoughts/changes/errors is an option, but this option has “no teeth”. These items are likely to get missed and most likely will not get addressed. My preferred…

Previously I had uploaded my dark themed visual studio settings. These settings were created prior to using the Spark View Engine for my web development. I have updated the settings to include support for the Spark View Engine views. Here’s a screenshot of what the HTML view looks like. Download the settings file at the…

If you’re like me and run all development in a VM, then this is going to be great news for you … Hanselman posted an excellent article on how to boot from a VHD. Check it out here. This is exciting stuff and I’m going to give it a whirl this weekend. :)

Its tonight at Kierans in Downtown Minneapolis. See you there! More info here.

Over the last 5+ months myself (as well as thirteen other Magenic consultants) have been nose-to-the-grind-stone on a very high profile project. Due to the NDA at the time we were not allowed to state where we were working and on what we were working on. However, that time has now passed. Let me start…

When using the MVC helpers (namely the HtmlHelper class in this example) you have to be aware of what you’re typing into the htmlAttributes object (which is an overload of the Action method on that class). Passing in values via a view is usually as simple as (Im’ using spark here):   ${Html.ActionLink("Foo", "Foo", null,…

If you’re working in a shop that uses SubVersion and also utilizes any form of branching you will probably run into a point in time where you have 10 different copies of your source tree on your disk. Usually you will have one copy per branch. If your project is small this usually isn't a…

Two new Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer events have been posted to the site. This months will be at Kierans Irish Pub (doing a repeat for those who missed it last time) and we also have an event planned for June at The Herkimer. See the Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer site for more info. See you…

Last week, I posted info about the reMix event happening here in Minneapolis.   It's tonight! Don't forget! See you there.

I installed Windows 7 RC last night and my dual monitor support was not working. I queried a few people at my employer and Anthony Handley pointed me in the right direction. If you’re using a Dell D630 laptop and you’re running Windows 7 RC and need a video driver to support dual monitors, we’ve…

2.0 RELEASED! Wow… I’ve been using castle for, I’m not sure, maybe 4 years and its finally released version 2.0. I’ve been running off the trunk for _ages_ too. I’m happy to see that this new version of Castle Windsor has been released. Get the bits here.

While working on an app recently I ran into the issue of needing to handle httpErrors at runtime in a dynamic fashion. I did this with some custom controller execution and routing. If a user were to type in an invalid address a custom 404 would be returned. Example: http://example.org/foo The Problem Unfortunately my custom…