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Having a blog has its benefits, but sometimes people want to access your site via a mobile device and, well…. lets face it, rendering your site across many different mobile platforms, looks, well…. LIKE CRAP. Hell, half the time its unreadable. How to Enable Your Site For Mobile Viewing If you want to mobile enable…

I took the ASP.NET 3.5 Exam (in beta form) on June 5th at Tech-Ed 2008 and today I received notification that …. I PASSED! Woohoo! What does this mean? Well, it means that I’m now an MCTS in ASP.NET 2.0 and an MCTS for ASP.NET 3.5.

So, are you going? If so, you better sign up quick! Space is going fast! What is an alt.net open space? First lets define what an open space actually is… How Open Spaces Works Whoever shows up is the right group. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have. Whenever it starts is the…

Better late than never…. :) Our team coordinator, Bil Simser, announced this same thing on his blog a couple of weeks ago.  Tree Surgeon is a .NET Development Tree Generator. Basically, we added … Support for Visual Studio 2003, 2005, and 2008 Ability to choose unit testing framework NUnit and MbUnit Updated NAnt scripts for…

This week Microsoft announced that their Virtual Earth product versions 3, 4 & 5 will be retired. As part of our planned deprecation schedule for older versions of Virtual Earth, we will be permanently retiring Virtual Earth version 3, version 4, and version 5 in the coming months. If you are currently using one of…

Every now and then I have people who want to know what books I recommend in regards to IT and Software. My list tends to change over time, so I plan on keeping this up to date. I'll be posting this link on the home page, so feel free to check back any time.  Patterns…

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At Tech-Ed last week they offered the ASP.NET 3.5 Beta Exam. The beta exam is not available in Phoenix, so I decided to give it a whirl on Thursday. I didn't plan to take the test so I didn't have a lot of time to review (maybe 30 minutes of review) and I just dove…

This past weekend I presented the topic "Intro to Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control" at the Phoenix Desert Code Camp. A big thank you goes out to everyone who attended. It was such a popular topic that it actually moved up to the largest room in the conference location, the Theater at UAT! Thanks…

  Note: A full solution is supplied at the bottom of this post if you would like to download it and run it. A couple of days ago Matt wrote about the new Unity Application Block. The Unity MSDN article describes Unity as: The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container.…

Rhino Mocks and NUnit both have a "Is" keyword, both used for a fluent style of syntax. Unfortunately this causes testing problems when you need to use them together. The .NET compiler can only understand one "Is" keyword at a time. We can't use both unless we full qualify the second one. Having said that,…

That's right! I will be presenting at the Phoenix Arizona Desert Code Camp on May 31st 2008. I will be presenting a course on Dependency Injection / Inversion of Control. The time's have not been posted yet but as I find out more information I will update this blog. I hope to see you there.…