Posts on Nick Berardi

New Job

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:52:55 -0500

Well the title pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the direction of this blog post, if that doesn't interest you then stop reading...

Caddio Sport Techie Writeup

Fri, 23 May 2014 09:21:18 -0500

Many of you probably don't know this, but I have been working on a golf related app called Caddio, off and on for more than a year. The app is finally to...

A .NET Build Server Without Visual Studio

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:47:13 -0500

Update: Phil Haack has started a petition to get the steps I outlined below into an easy installer. Please support it with your votes. Over the past week...

Consensus: Bringing it all together

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:46:32 -0500

This post has been a long time in the making. Actually that is sort of a lie, I completely forgot that I promised a 4 part series until my friend Jon...

Embeding Executify Scripts

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:13:20 -0500

Recently I have been working on a reincarnation of Executify and one of the new features is the ability to embed your scripts in your blog or any web...

Consensus: SignalR + AngularJS

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:41:22 -0500

As part of my 4 part series in creating the app I described in my prior post, I am going to be creating an online planning poker application for...

Consensus: AngularJS + TypeScript

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:00:52 -0500

As part of my 4 part series in creating the app I described in my prior post, I am going to be creating an online planning poker application for...

Consensus: SignalR + TypeScript

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:00:02 -0500

As part of my 4 part series in creating the app I described in my prior post, I am going to be creating an online planning poker application for...

Consensus: Planning Poker Project

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:00:40 -0500

Last Friday I decided to sit down and see how painful it would be to integrate AngularJS, SignalR, and TypeScript together to produce a useful and...

I am a Microsoft Most Valued Professional, Part 2

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:22:20 -0500

Last year was my first year being involved in the Microsoft MVP program. Over the past year, I have met many great developers through the MVP program and...

Open Source Podcast #2

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:38:46 -0500

First of all we have to say a big thank you to Kerry Street for suggesting the name Seriously Open. It was the best name by far, and I think it nicely...

Open Source .NET Podcast #1

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:00:24 -0500

A few weeks ago Justin Rusbatch and I produced a first in hopefully a long line of podcasts. The mission statement of our podcast is: To talk about and...

Strong Naming: One Year Later

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:04:22 -0500

It is almost 1 year to the date of when I first posted JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes and the NuGet compatibility issues have stabilized This...

Free 5 Hours From Executify

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:56:11 -0500

Executify is offering 5 hours of complimentary compute time in honor of the MVP 2013 Summit for running CRON jobs in the cloud. In honor of the Microsoft...

Being Stolen From Sucks

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:01:12 -0500

When you put open source software out there in the wild there is a mutual understanding that, you are going to see my source code, and probably take some...

Azure Tip: How are Web Sites priced?

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:19:00 -0500

One of the questions that comes up often related to Azure Websites is: How are Web Sites priced? To understand how they are priced you have to understand...

Azure Tip: My Management Certificate Is Public What Do I Do?

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:29:10 -0500

Yesterday @writeameer posted on twitter a search query, using the new GitHub Code Search, showing that there are a whole lot of users on GitHub that have...

Executify's Vision

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:23:34 -0500

As I explained about a month ago when I introduced Executify, I have launched a new website that works a lot like Azure Mobile Service Jobs except that...

Azure Mobile Service Jobs

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:18:22 -0500

As I was getting ready to roll out Executify, I like many of you read Scott Gu's announcement of Azure Mobile Services providing scheduled jobs, and I was...

Welcome To Executify

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:10:00 -0500

I have a common problem that many developers have. I have small programs or processes that I want executed on a semi-regular basis, but having a whole...

Hidden iPhone 5 Upgrade Fees And Bad AT&T Math

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:23:00 -0500

This is a break from my normal postings about technology, but I just needed to rant on this a little. Because as a programmer I understand that bad math...

Using Source Code Pro Font With Visual Studio

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:14:10 -0500

You may or may not be aware but Adobe released a new font a couple of days ago. Who cares right, you are not a graphics designer, you sling code for a...

Sometimes a nanosecond makes all the difference

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:54:43 -0500

In the Cassandra database there is a type known as TimeUUID. Which I have talked about a couple times on my blog and even created a pretty well received...

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Data.Services, Version=5.0.0.0"

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:53:58 -0500

Recently while working on an OData endpoint for a web service I am setting up I came across this error. I did a quick search on the web, but all that I...

Chief Tecumseh Poem

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:54:29 -0500

Last night I watched Act of Valor it was decent movie, but it wasn't a great movie, some of the dialog seemed forced. But one part of the move really...

I am a Microsoft Most Valued Professional

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:13 -0500

Typically I don't like making these self congratulatory posts, but the Microsoft MVP program is one that I respect a lot. The MVP's I know are all top...

FluentCassandra Primer

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:34:01 -0500

Getting Started To get started you have to understand the basic terminology of the Cassandra database. Unlike relational databases (i.e. SQL Server,...

Love The New Windows 8 Delete Dialog

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:48:50 -0500

Now this is actually useful information, not just a stream of useless numbers with no context or history to them.

Setting Up A GitHub Specific PowerShell Profile

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:00:06 -0500

I was very excited to see that after several months of work Phil and Paul finally released their much talked about GitHub client for Windows. It has a...

Using Git Bash in Console2

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:48:03 -0500

After reading Scott Hansleman's post about Console2 I decided to give it a try full time. Overall I have to say I am very impressed and have no intention...

Philly.NET: Scott Hanselman: The Future of ASP.NET

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:20:44 -0500

How Do I Sign Up You can signup here: http://phillydotnet20120531.eventbrite.com/ The Event May 31 Scott Hanselman: The Future of ASP.NET Thursday Blue...

Metro on Windows 8 - Illegal characters in path

Tue, 15 May 2012 05:27:58 -0500

As I was developing my first Metro App today I came upon this weird error. Error 1 Error : DEP0600 : The following unexpected error occurred during...

BigDecimal type in .NET

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:00:51 -0500

Similar to the situation I previously posted about in my last blog entry on ZLIB Compression in .NET. I needed to support a byte array coming from Java's...

ZLIB Compression in .NET

Sat, 12 May 2012 03:12:23 -0500

I recently encountered a situation where I needed to provide a compressed byte stream to Java's Inflator class. This probably isn't a situation that you...

JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:33:23 -0500

This post requires a little understanding about how strong naming works. It's complicated, but basically here is the jist: When you compile a library...

Mash This Episode 5: ASP.NET Web API and Open Source with Brad Wilson

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:26:32 -0500

In case everybody wasn't aware, and to be honest it is really my fault for not announcing this, but I started a podcast with Lee Dumond, Dustin Davis, and...

Dealing With 0x0000007B Blue Screen in VirtualBox

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:28:47 -0500

One of the great things about VirtualBox is that it allows you to open up, mount, and run any hard drive from the other 3 major manufactures. VMWare,...

RavenDB Sequential Number Generator

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:40:53 -0500

RavenDB has a great identity generator that is very fast to generate a new identity when you are inserting a ton of records at once. You can read more...

Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:46:50 -0500

NuGet 1.6 was released today. And with it came some great new features, one that I am particularly excited about is. Using NuGet Without Checking In...

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:11:11 -0500

Steve Jobs February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 My first computer was the Apple II, my second computer was a Macintosh Classic, my most useful computer to...

Three20 And Custom NIB TableViewCells

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:14:46 -0500

I am pretty new to Objective-C development and iOS development in general, but in my effort to fill small gaps on the internet with useful information, I...

Reducing the size of a VirtualBox hard drive

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:39:09 -0500

Often times I have run into the situation where I need to share a VM image with a co-worker or store as a base starting point. Case in point today I...

Thought This Was Funny

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:09:12 -0500

Ways to deal with litigious people

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:41:36 -0500

Recently I just got out of a contract in the beginning of June, that unfortunately I stayed at way too long in. That is another story. But, I have nothing...

JustCode makes coding just better

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:12:34 -0500

I wanted to hold off writing this post, because I wanted to be impartial to the product as possible. However, when I first installed Telerik’s JustCode, I...

.gitconfig

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:50:54 -0500

I have been using GIT for about a year now, and over the last year I have configured some things in GIT that make my life as a developer much easier. This...

Adding Git Command Line To Visual Studio

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:53:02 -0500

If you are an avid Git user like I am, but also happen to work in a Visual Studio environment, you know that getting to your Git Bash command prompt is...

A Smarter Entity Framework Include Method

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:43:29 -0500

One of the things I have always disliked about Entity Framework and their support for LINQ is that while your whole LINQ statement is compile time checked...

Anybody Know How To Fix This Problem?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:01:43 -0500

Ever since I uninstalled Team Explorer 2010, I am receiving the following error: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio The...

NuGet Fluent Cassandra

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:41:38 -0500

Fluent Cassandra is now available via NuGet. If you have never heard of FluentCassandra then go here to learn more:...

Philly Code Camp 2011.1 - Call For Speakers

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:15:12 -0500

Philly Code Camp 2011.1 will be held April 9th at DeVry in Fort Washington. And we have a great line up of tracks this year, even a couple new web related...

Philly Code Camp 2011.1 - Sponsors

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:52:03 -0500

We are now in the process of accepting sponsors for Philly Code Camp 2011.1. The charity we are sponsoring this time around is: So if you would like to...

Adding Your Application To The Graph

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:40:18 -0500

Recently Jeff Attwood asked: Is meta description still relevant? In the question he quoted an anonymous “expert”: Meta descriptions are used by Google...

Baby Elizabeth Nicole Arrives

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:17:16 -0500

I know I am really late with this post given that my daughter, Elizabeth Nicole (Betsy), was born on November 29, 2010 at 5:06 am. But, in my defense, she...

Layouts And Sections With Razor

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:41:41 -0500

Yesterday night I had decided, that this morning I was going to sit down and write a post on the uses of the IsSectionDefined method in the Razor syntax,...

Setting up a CloudFront Mirroring CDN in 5 minutes

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:04:30 -0500

Recently I decided it was important to get away from Google App Engine as my CDN, mostly because I have encountered personally and have been told that...

Enabling Pinging in Windows 2008 R2

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:58:11 -0500

For the life of me I couldn’t find an easy option to enable pinging, an ICMP Type 8 or Echo Request response, through my Windows 2008 R2 firewall. ...

Entity Framework Repository Pattern

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:15:45 -0500

This is my first attempt at an Entity Framework (EF) based Repository Pattern.  I took a stab at this while working on a new project, and I am really...

Searching Stack Overflow The Easy Way (Another Reason To Use Google Chrome)

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:10:32 -0500

If you already didn’t have enough reasons to use Google Chrome, I found out that it now has brought the goodness of a one textbox search solution to all...

Timing The Execution Time Of Your MVC Actions

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:00:06 -0500

I recently had the need to find out how much time elapsed during the execution of just my action, so I created a handy little action filter based on...

How To: Send SMTP Email Through GoDaddy

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:18:53 -0500

Note I cannot endorse the SocketLabs service anymore. Everything below works with any SMTP service. If you would like great alternatives please give the...

To Go Native Or Not To Go Native… That Is The Question

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:23:57 -0500

Over the past couple of weeks I have been slowly planning and revamping my iPhone app to address user concerns, bugs, and problems. And as part of the...

Marketers vs. Developers the Email Templating Problem

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:07:03 -0500

For as long as I can remember the standard mail merge process has always been one dimensional in that you are doing little more than poking holes in your...

Easy Mail Delivery with a SMTP Smart Host

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:16:51 -0500

Note I cannot endorse the SocketLabs service anymore. Everything below works with any SMTP service. If you would like great alternatives please give the...

You're Invited To Code Camp 2010.2

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:32:31 -0500

October 9 Code Camp 2010.2 Saturday Fort Washington, PA Platinum Partners Gold Partners Silver Partners Charity Our second 2010 Code Camp will be held at...

Sometimes it is the little things…

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:00:33 -0500

About 2 weeks ago I wrote about What I loved about Google Adsense.  And today I just wanted to show you the results that I have received over the...

Simple REST API Versioning Using MEF and MVC

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:51:18 -0500

I know that is a whole host of acronyms in the title, so let me explain. Recently it came to my attention at my day job that I was going to have to...

Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Call For Speakers

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0500

We have a great line up of tracks this year, even a new one led by our very own, Philly area Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Danny Diaz.  This is our...

What I Love About Google AdSense

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:06:45 -0500

Received this message today from Google AdSense. We performed an analysis on xyz.com and found a great opportunity to increase your AdSense earnings. We...

Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Sponsors

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:52:34 -0500

We are now in the process of accepting sponsors for Philly Code Camp 2010.2. This is our family of partners, with an international reach that have...

Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – ASP.NET Track

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:18:13 -0500

This year for the ASP.NET Track, at Philly Code Camp 2010.2, there is going to be a heavy focus on getting started with some of the new[er] web...

Who Loves Their Developers More

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:40:11 -0500

Last night as I was talking with Danny Diaz about the importants of good programming language documentation.  It occurred to me that the level of...

Philly.NET August 2010 Presentation

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:30:30 -0500

With Each Step Forward, Microsoft Takes Two Back

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:09:54 -0500

Today I was browsing a Microsoft published document on creating ASP.NET Web Pages using the Razor Syntax and to my surprise I found this gem on page...

ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:25:07 -0500

The title says it all, so go get your copy today and check out all the new features. You can download it here. New features include: Razor View Engine...

Turning JSON into a ExpandoObject

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:06:21 -0500

Recently I had the need for a web service of mine to take a JSON blob as an input. This isn’t really exciting or all that interesting a problem, but I...

Uninstalling Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:05:20 -0500

Today I decided to upgrade to the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Toolkit, however the uninstall process wasn’t working.  It kept asking me what...

Welcome To Last.io

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:31:30 -0500

I wanted to save this historic post for my blog, post number 250, for a special occasion. And I can’t think of a more special occasion than what I am...

Run Cassandra As A Windows Service

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:16:42 -0500

One of the main issues that comes up over and over again for Cassandra is: How do I run Cassandra as a Windows Service? In this post I am going to answer...

Using LINQPad to Query Stack Overflow

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:02:10 -0500

Update (2010-12-30): I have updated the OData URI locations below, because of a recent move and re-architecture by the StackExchange team. In case you...

How Fluent Cassandra Handles Runtime Types

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:18:31 -0500

Today I had the question come up about some wonky behavior with retrieving data from Cassandra for non-string types.  Here is the issue in a...

Your First Fluent Cassandra Application (part 2)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:19:38 -0500

Last time I demonstrated how to create your first Fluent Cassandra app. After we finished learning about how to create records and save them to the...

Your First Fluent Cassandra Application

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:18:46 -0500

As your are probably aware by now if you follow my Twitter status or have looked in to some of my recent posts.  I am developing a library called...

That No SQL Thing: Column (Family) Databases

Mon, 24 May 2010 04:01:37 -0500

Just wanted to mention a very well written post that explains Column Family Databases, like that of Cassandra, in the most straight forward way that I...

6 Git Commands To Get You Started

Fri, 21 May 2010 03:12:51 -0500

I have heard a lot of chatter on blogs and twitter about how people just don’t get git.  They exclaim it is too hard to learn, too hard to work with,...

.gitignore Config File For .NET Projects

Wed, 19 May 2010 14:18:58 -0500

I wanted to post this mostly for my future reference. But I think it is also equally as useful to anybody else with a .NET project that is using the Git...

TimeUUID only makes sense with version 1 UUIDs

Sun, 16 May 2010 18:43:04 -0500

In a world where we are all use to dealing with objects we often forget that everything gets reduced to ones and zeros before being transmitted over the...

Download My Visual Studio Color Scheme

Mon, 03 May 2010 16:44:39 -0500

As a developer I spend probably way too much time in front of Visual Studio, and if you are like me you start optimizing the color schemes, fonts, and...

Show CodeRush Xpress 10.1 Menu in Visual Studio

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:03:53 -0500

As promised here is the updated scripts for CodeRush Xpress 10.1, which was released about a week ago. The Keyboard Command Way Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O The...

Visual Studio Extensibility - Code Camp 2010.1 Presentation

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:43:35 -0500

Here is a copy of the presentation that I presented at the Philly Code Camp 2010.1 today. If you attended, thank you. If you didn't attend here is the...

Creating a Time UUID (GUID) in .NET

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:04:05 -0500

Previously I had written about how to setup Cassandra as a database on your Windows machine. As I was diving in deeper to learn more about the subject, I...

Beta Testing Wrapping Up On A New Super Secret Feature

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:14:40 -0500

After beta testing a feature that I announced last year to a lot of fan fair.  I have finally wrapped up the testing phase and I am ready to release...

Cassandra Jump Start For The Windows Developer

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:49:29 -0500

Recently I have been exploring the NoSQL options for .NET and specifically a database called Cassandra.  In case you haven’t heard of Cassandra...

Editable MVC Routes (Apache Style)

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:54:36 -0500

Since writing yesterday’s post about what annoys me regarding the limited insight most web developers have in regards to Routing vs Rewriting. It occurred...

The difference between Routing and Rewriting

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:00:12 -0500

As most of you are probably aware, if you read my blog enough, I am the sole developer of a URL Rewriter that I have tried to keep extensible and relevant...

You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:39:26 -0500

As I announced earlier in the month, Philly Code Camp was searching for qualified speakers for many different topics surrounding .NET specifically .NET...

Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:06:40 -0500

Philly.NET is looking for speakers to fill 60 sessions for Code Camp 2010.1. We have exciting news this year. 10 of the sessions will be broadcast live by...

Connecting Visual Studio 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:27:22 -0500

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010 RC, I decided to take Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 RC for a spin also.  I was really interested in...

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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:36:56 -0500

If you know what these numbers mean, you known why I am typing them today.  If you don’t then go here to find out.

Gracefully Failing

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0500

Today I just noticed that my blog’s CDN (Google AppEngine) was failing to resolve. After a little research I realized that WebSense, a corporate web...

Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:46:52 -0500

In my first post about JavaScript compression and the different levels supported by the three major competitors in the JavaScript minimization,...

Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. Microsoft AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:12:12 -0500

A little more than a year and half ago I created a MSBuild Task for the YUI Compressor that was very well received, and even highlighted on the YUI...

Determining A Significant Change In A Web Page

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0500

The problem with many web pages today is that they include useless hidden pieces of constantly changing information that serves no purpose to the general...

Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:23:45 -0500

As promised here is the updated scripts for CodeRush Xpress 9.3, which was released a few week ago. The Keyboard Command Way Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O The Registry...

Server Backup On The Cheap: Backup For Less Than $10.00 A Year

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:45 -0500

I have started and stopped this post probably about 10 times now.  I just didn’t feel it was that interesting.  But there probably isn’t a...

ASP.NET MVC – 0 to 30 in 30 minutes

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:28:23 -0500

I recorded the following presentation for DevReady.NET, a new project that I am working on with a bunch of talented MVC’s and Microsoft employees. After I...

jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:09:53 -0500

Looks like some great new improvements coming to the 1.4 release. It doesn’t look like any new methods are being added, but updating many of the new ones...

Sometimes you just need to CodingHorror it!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:53:46 -0500

The title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek reference to SubSonic’s inline query by the same name, which in turn is a reference to the blogger Jeff...

Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:27:05 -0500

One of the important things about web programming, especially when using AJAX, from a usability standpoint is to provide a responsive user interface to...

Philly Code Camp 2009.2

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:59:04 -0500

As I indicated a couple weeks ago I was going to be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.2. If you weren't there you missed a great day of learning about...

I am going to be speaking at Philly Code Camp 2009.2

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:03:49 -0500

For the second 2009 Philly Code Camp, it will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 17 from 8:30 AM - 5:00...

Show CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Menu in Visual Studio

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:06:51 -0500

As promised to the people of my last post for CodeRush Xpress 9.1, here is the updated scripts for CodeRush Xpress 9.2, which was released last week. The...

Static Constructors in .NET 3.5, still a bad thing?

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:55:02 -0500

Recently at the Philly.NET User Group, Kathleen Dollard gave a great presentation on the use of generics and rethinking object orientation. Both topics...

How to create a Reverse Proxy using Url Rewriter

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:01:07 -0500

I just wanted to share a really well written article on how to setup a Reverse Proxy, by John Gully, using the Url Rewriter that I have been working on...

TF53002, TF30040, TF30059, TF30063 Team Foundation Server Errors

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:07:00 -0500

Today I received the following error while getting ready to do some new development for my URL Rewriter. TF53002: Unable to obtain registration data for...

Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:05:03 -0500

I recently had a conversation with Scoot Koon (LazyCoder) over Twitter about the wacky JavaScript type comparisons that are allowed. I was interested to...

Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Listmania-ed)

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:39:02 -0500

Found this great new, well new to me, service on Amazon called Listmania. It allows you to bundle Amazon products in to a list for easy consumption. So...

Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:30:50 -0500

Recently I have been going back and forth between R# and CodeRush. Right now I am in my CodeRush phase trying out the functionality with CodeRush Xpress,...

Hotfix KB 971092 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Install Problems

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:10:42 -0500

I was bitten by a weird Windows Update problem where update KB971092 would continually install and then keep trying to install even though it successfully...

Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:08:27 -0500

I am not going to comment too much on Linus Torvald's comments in this Linux Magazine article, because I feel they are very transparent and they mirror my...

Form over function often fails

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:20:03 -0500

Have you ever been asked to program something as simple as this chain lock for a door: And after it has gone through the design process, usability groups,...

Sneak Peek at ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:06:12 -0500

You can now use the Amazon Look Inside feature to view many parts my book that is going to be released June 22, 2009. So if you are interested use the...

Managed Fusion URL Rewriter & Reverse Proxy - Release 3.0

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:15:41 -0500

I am happy to announce the 3.0 release of the Managed Fusion URL Rewriter & Reverse Proxy. Since my previous release in February I have been working...

Creating Your First MVC ViewEngine

Mon, 11 May 2009 02:46:08 -0500

A question that I have been hearing a lot lately is: How do I change the view location in MVC? But what they really mean to say is: How do I create a new...

Google Alerts for Real Life

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:38:09 -0500

I have always been driven by the idea that computers and to the greater extent the internet should be as transparent as possible to the users. People...

Windows 7 Blame Feature

Sun, 03 May 2009 16:01:54 -0500

Over this past weekend I installed Windows 7 (64-bit), and I have to say that it is a great upgrade from Windows Vista that nobody should be disappointed...

Managed Fusion URL Rewriter Was Featured at PDC 2008

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:23:12 -0500

The Managed Fusion URL Rewriter, that I work on and that runs this blog, was featured in PDC 2008 by CJ Saretto (Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Home...

Code Camp 2009.1 - Gooey GUI... Programming in Visual Studio

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:00:38 -0500

Here is my presentation from Code Camp 2009.1: You can download the software seen in this presentation at: Microsoft Visual Studio Express...

See everybody at Code Camp 2009.1 Tomorrow

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:03:11 -0500

I will be speaking at the Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 tomorrow. So if you read this blog, come up to me and say hi. I don't bite. :) After my presentation...

Recession Proof Your Programming Skills

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:43 -0500

In this economy you have to do everything to keep your skills fresh and current so that employers find you a desirable hire. I really though the tips...

I see at least 4 things wrong with this code

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:38:21 -0500

I saw this code over on Ayende's website. I see at least 4 things wrong with this code, which was found here. public object DeepCopy (object value) { try...

Beta Testing a New Super Secret Feature

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:29:34 -0500

I have decided to add a new, super secret, feature to Coder Journal. This new feature is still in beta testing, but like any Agile development process, I...

What are your Visual Studio tips?

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:28:12 -0500

As I announced yesterday I will be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.1 on Visual Studio 2008 for beginners. As part of this presentation I want to be...

Speaking at Philly Code Camp 2009.1

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:21:42 -0500

I will be doing a presentation on Programming in Visual Studio in the Beginners track, which will start at 10:00 AM. I expect to see you all there. Also...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:38:00 -0500

It was just announced at MIX09 that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released for general use and is out of the Release Candidate phase. There has been no word on...

The State of ALT.NET

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:17:11 -0500

Over the past 6 months I have been trying to really quantify what it means to be using ALT.NET practices. And I can honestly say that I still honestly...

100 Million Lines of Code in Your Car

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:00:12 -0500

I was reading over on DevTopic today about how 100 Million Lines of Code is pretty common in cars today. We have come a really long way since 1977 when...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate 2

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:04:46 -0500

Phil Haack has announced the availability of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate 2. You can download the new version from Microsoft. Source code and samples...

How not to get help on an Open Source Project

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:04:57 -0500

So over the past couple of weeks I have been helping a user get up and running on a project I have developed called Managed Fusion Url Rewriter and...

TF30042: The database is full. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:57:45 -0500

Today I received the following error while trying to check in some code after a marathon night of coding: TF30042: The database is full. Contact your Team...

Happy 1234567890

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:00:30 -0500

Happy What? The number you see in the title is also known as Epoch (UNIX) time. When Epoch time was created, they set the "beginning" to January 1, 1970....

Knowing Yourself - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator's

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:50:26 -0500

Today on Twitter I got into a discussion with Sara Chipps about Myers-Briggs Type Indicators. I am an INTJ, which means: I – Introversion preferred to...

Windows 7 SKU's (Not As Bad As It Seems)

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:48:41 -0500

Many different sources are announcing that Windows 7 will have 6 different SKU's available, and many are touting the end of Windows, because they are...

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:53:02 -0500

If you are getting something like the following error message in ASP.NET MVC: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client...

Managed Fusion URL Rewriter & Reverse Proxy Release 2.5

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:30:43 -0500

Download: Binary Release Download: Source Code Release Notes If you would like to find out more about the past releases please visit us at...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 7) - The Controller

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:06:54 -0500

This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided...

Heading To Philly.NET Tonight

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:47:20 -0500

I am heading to Philly.NET tonight. Julie Lerman is presenting the full meeting about the Entity Framework. The meeting is broken in to two parts, which...

Creating a Wireless Access Point using DD-WRT - Refresh

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:03:39 -0500

I found a setup that I like even better than my previous one. I have highlighted the main differences, in red, below. To set it up as repeater do the...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 6) - The View

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:06:54 -0500

This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided...

2008 Year End Reivew

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:00:54 -0500

As you can see from the graph above everybody has helped make this another very successful year for Coder Journal. The green line is last years visitors,...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 5) - The Model

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:13:04 -0500

This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 4) - Your First ASP.NET MVC Project

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:00:21 -0500

This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 3) - Installing the Prerequisites

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:50:02 -0500

This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided...

Happy New Year 2009

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:00:08 -0500

I hope your have a Happy New Year! Over the next year I plan to increasing my rate of posting to my blog and keep it growing in the right direction. Be on...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) - ASP.NET MVC vs. ASP.NET Web Forms

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:42:30 -0500

This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided...

Creating a Wireless Access Point using DD-WRT

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:15:48 -0500

This post is a reminder to myself in case I ever need to troubleshoot this setup process again, but I thought I would post it just in case it is useful to...

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) - The Model-View-Controller Pattern

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:45:08 -0500

About a month and a half ago I announced that I am writing a book, I was really overwhelmed by the amount of support that I received from this...

Creating an extension module for .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:37:25 -0500

Wow that is a long title. Recently I have been looking for quick posts that I can put out each day to keep my blog relevant and also so I don't feel like...

Creating a Progressive Queue in IE6 JavaScript

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:21:51 -0500

Today IE6 really kicked my butt, I had the following code working in FireFox, IE7, etc, all except IE6: ShowLoadingPanel(); // execute some code here...

Tweaking Vista Services

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:11:11 -0500

Recently I have been trying to squeak more speed out of my laptop by shutting down unnecessary services that seem to come with most every software and...

Managed Fusion URL Rewriter & Reverse Proxy Release 2.2

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:08:52 -0500

Download: Binary Release Download: Source Code Release Notes If you would like to find out more about the past releases please visit us at...

Vote Now

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:19:31 -0500

I am not going to sit here and tell you who to vote for. But I do think it is important to get out and vote. If you need help finding your local precinct...

Stack Overflow Down...

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:10:16 -0500

I woke up this morning, showered, and checked Stack Overflow. Like I do every morning except this morning was different, Stack Overflow is down. What am I...

ASP.NET MVC Has Changed My Life

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:20:28 -0500

Lately I have been neglecting my blog and not posting as often as I would have liked. I have had some very exciting things start up, at the begining of...

ASP.NET MVC Goes Beta (Part 2)

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:02:29 -0500

From what I can tell ASP.NET MVC Beta is just ASP.NET MVC PR5 with a couple bug fixes. So the good news is that the interface has finally solidified and...

ASP.NET MVC Goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:03:20 -0500

Wow has it really been 10 months since I first started using MVC. We have hit our first beta today. No information about what has changed, I will make...

What .NET Library Features do you use?

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:09:46 -0500

Scott Hanselman posted a survey (one little question) on what features do you use in the .NET framework:...

Add Your Twitter Status To Your Blog

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:22:00 -0500

For the longest time I have been wanting to add my Twitter status to my blog in place of my quote right under my blogs name in the header. (see above)...

jQuery and Visual Studio Shipping Together

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:07:21 -0500

I have been a huge fan of jQuery ever since I started working on IdeaPipe about 10 months ago. Mostly because of its simplistic DOM access using standard...

How NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:35:05 -0500

About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I...

My Philly.NET Presentation

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:56:13 -0500

This is very basic presentation on how Web 2.0 and MVC can work together. The actual source code for this presentation is located at:...

The Second Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:27:44 -0500

Many people have said they don't get these ad's, but personally I like them.

Philly .NET User Group Meeting for September 2008

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:57:55 -0500

I will be presenting September 17, 2008 at Philly .NET User Group Meeting. My talk will be on: Creating a modern, web 2.0, application with MVC and jQuery...

iTunes 8.0 Released

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:45:44 -0500

LifeHacker has a first look at iTunes 8.0. As of right now iTunes can be downloaded from Apple, but not through Apple Update yet. Doesn't look as...

The First Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:56:59 -0500

This is pretty funny. It seems to be a story building commercial, for a future release. Possible Windows 7.

Google Chrome, The New Kid On The Block

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:14 -0500

So when Google announced they had a new browser that was going to break down all the barriers of the internet and the desktop I got excited at the...

ASP.NET MVC Preview Release 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:51:57 -0500

Looks like the MVC team has put out preview release 5 of the MVC Framework today. You can get the latest version from CodePlex. Here is what I can tell...

So I received an iPhone last week...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:04:15 -0500

I have to preface what I am about to say with a couple of things: I have a first generation iPhone I do not have AT&T or any other GSM network I am...

Deadlocked!: "read committed snapshot" Explained

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:32:01 -0500

I just recently read Jeff Atwood's Deadlocked! article. I just wanted to give some more insight in to the read committed snapshot so that it is not...

Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:46:28 -0500

I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look...

Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:02:07 -0500

A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn't reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:07:33 -0500

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including...

MySQL Officially Declared Microsoft SQL Server Compeditor

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:48:58 -0500

I have been a huge fan of MySQL for a long time. It is the perfect database for when the budget is tight or you are not working in a Microsoft...

I am ditching Vista for Windows Mojave

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:48 -0500

I just can't take Windows Vista anymore so I am ditching it for Windows Mojave. I have heard great things about it and anything must be better than...

X-Files: I Want To Beleive... Meh...

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:16:36 -0500

Last night I saw the new X-Files Movie, I Want To Believe, and as a fan of the original series and movie, I had great expectations for this movie. In the...

Do your self a favor get Opera 9.5 Mobile

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:28:31 -0500

I just downloaded Opera 9.5 Mobile for my Windows Mobile phone. And I have one thing to say. Wow! This brings a more standard compliant browser to your...

Review of NDepend

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:47:44 -0500

When I was asked to review NDepend I didn't want to do just another review. Because there are plenty of great reviews and I would just be adding to the...

iTunes 7.7 + Windows Vista x64 == OK

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:12:17 -0500

iTunes 7.7 has been released! Windows Vista x64 I am happy to announce that iTunes 7.7 and Windows Vista x64 work well together. The Apple downloader even...

Ladies Night on Coder Journal

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:10:45 -0500

I received a ton of nice comments from Rob, John, Scott, and Phil related to my previous post, What Software Bloggers Do Girls Like Better? Phil even did...

Which Software Blogger Do Girls Like Better?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:25:44 -0500

Today I received an invite to Google Ad Planner. As I was playing around with this new tool, I was really blown away by how much information Google has...

MVC CAPTCHA for Preview Release 3

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:08:24 -0500

Since my last release of the MVC toolkit some major changes have taken place in the MVC Framework. I am going to do a quick run through of how they...

Firefox 3.0 Released

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:13:30 -0500

Firefox 3.0 is going to be released today at 1:00 PM EST and 10:00 AM PST, other times can be found here. This is going to be a huge release where the...

Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:43:20 -0500

As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users...

MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:05:12 -0500

Just recently I started experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC Framework and the Facebook Development Platform, it has been a very bumpy road, but I have...

Give Your ASP.NET Applications Velocity

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:04:50 -0500

Scaling ASP.NET Application just got easier with a new technology that Microsoft has just released that they have dubbed codename "Velocity". This product...

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Released

Tue, 27 May 2008 06:40:20 -0500

The ASP.NET MVC Team has released an refresh of MVC. To all those that are interested the new Preview Release is posted at:...

Microsoft Source Analysis Still Needs Work

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:49:45 -0500

Microsoft just released a tool called Microsoft Source Analysis for C#. Apparently it is a tool they use internally to make sure all their souce code...

How to create a non-Native jQuery event

Fri, 23 May 2008 08:13:49 -0500

Today I had the need to create a custom event using jQuery, in order to launch a customized form validation event from a global submit event. I did this...

How to create a YUI Compressor MSBuild Task

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:29:27 -0500

Recently for IdeaPipe I have been looking for ways to deliver my content more quickly and reduce unnecessary bandwidth use. According to Yahoo's...

What I learned about SEO from Celebrity Jeopardy!

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:20:34 -0500

I was having a conversation with my best friend a few days ago and we got on the subject of our preferences for how URL's are rendered for blogs. I fall...

2 Easy Steps To Turn Your Blog Into An OpenID Gateway

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:34 -0500

Many of you probably have heard of OpenID, but have never had a chance to use it. However, I predict that most of you reading this blog will have used it...

Software Developers Never Change

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:01:29 -0500

Whenever I am tasked with looking over a fellow developers code I always keep the following in mind, in order to ground myself: your program (n): a maze...

Whats the idea? The reason we implemented IdeaPipe

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:48:56 -0500

When we first came up with the idea for IdeaPipe (no pun intended), we saw a need to fill a void in the social networking landscape. There are countless...

When Dell Usability Engineering Goes Horribly Wrong

Thu, 01 May 2008 04:05:31 -0500

Today I was reading Engadget like I normally do in the morning to check out all the latest gadgets that they scour the internet for. And I happened across...

Introducing Idea Pipe

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:09:53 -0500

I have been working on this new social networking website that is based around the collaboration and sharing of ideas. I have talked about this project in...

Why isn't Journalistic integrity important to Slashdot anymore?

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:13:37 -0500

Slashdot has been around for over a decade now and many tech nerds first cut their teeth on Slashdot as an information source for everything tech related,...

Interesting Extension Hack To Get Around NullReferenceException's

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:19:22 -0500

Today I came across an interesting extension pattern that I didn't know how the runtime would react. Normally when you do something like the following:...

Apple Developers Continue To Not Impress

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:22:28 -0500

Apple "Windows Developers" continue to not impress me. Check out the latest in "I decided to release something too early"-product from Steve Jobs and...

Google Ads Allowing Flash To Take Over Browser

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:49:31 -0500

So today I saw this Google Flash Ad, for John McCain for President, appear on a site that I am developing. I thought I would let everybody know to watch...

ASP.NET MVC Interim Released

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:25:49 -0500

The ASP.NET MVC Team has released an refresh of MVC. To all those that are interested the new Interim Release is posted at:...

Adding DotNetKicks To FeedBurner FeedFlare

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:50:14 -0500

If you are using FeedBurner to manage your feed, and you love DotNetKicks as much as I do, you can now easily add a "Kick It" FeedFlare to it. This will...

Coder Journal's MVC Toolkit

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:04:54 -0500

Today I decided to release a toolkit that I have been building over the past couple of months. Most of the code in the toolkit is related to MVC. Here is...

WTF Apple, Show Some Common Courtesy

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:38:00 -0500

Common courtesy is very important for all application developers to follow especially when they are dealing with users settings. Especially for common...

Creating a Facebook Application using MVC

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:06:44 -0500

Facebook has been growing in popularity ever since it was released on February 4th 2004 at an almost unstoppable pace. Up until May 24th, 2007, it wasn't...

Getting IIS 7 to Compress JavaScript

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:28:22 -0500

One of the many recommendations that Yahoo makes on optimizing your web site for high amounts of traffic, and to make the response time speedier to your...

I Have Officially Seen Everything Now

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:09:45 -0500

Well I have officially seen everything now, it should be a sad point in my life, but I was cracking up during this whole rap video. This video is of a...

Why is JSON Deserialization so Important to Developers?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:48:08 -0500

Recently I have been working on a RESTful interface for a Web 2.0 project that I will be releasing very soon. And one of the self imposed requirements...

Force MVC Route URL to Lowercase

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:45:06 -0500

So one of my pet peeves in web development is mixed case URL's. And I usually make sure that all my URL's in my personal projects follow this standard. I...

Very Informative Rap On HTML Coding Design

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:36:14 -0500

I got a kick out of this video I found on YouTube. Take a look:

Now With WordPress 2.5

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:56:48 -0500

I have upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. It is a very nice piece of software that the WordPress development team has done a great job on. Some of the new...

Apple Safari Team priorities out of wack

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:40:42 -0500

Three interesting things about Apple Safari came out this past week. Apple Safari 3.1 passed the Acid 3 test Apple Safari running on a Mac was hacked in 2...

Is MVC Right For Your Application?

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:39:47 -0500

There is a simple way to tell if you can use MVC in your web application. If any of the following are true, you probably shouldn't: You require the...

ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions (The .NET Framework Way)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:59:06 -0500

So I just read Rob Conery's blog post on Securing Your Controller Actions in MVC. I was a little perplexed about why guys at Microsoft love to reinvent...

Localhost HTTP debugging with Fiddler

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:23:52 -0500

I have been a huge fan of Fiddler the HTTP Debugging Proxy for a couple years now. However one thing that always bugged me about any network debugging...

ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 CAPTCHA using ActionFilterAttribute

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:33:17 -0500

My last article on ASP.NET MVC CAPTCHA was very well received by many of my readers and it even caught the eye of the DotNetKicks crowd. Now that MVC...

Apple Doesn't Get My Money For An iPhone Today

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:39:21 -0500

Today Apple had their big iPhone SDK press release. They opened up the phone and added a bunch of Enterprise features that many small to large corporate...

Your Impressions of Coder Journal's Design

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:12:19 -0500

So today it was brought to my attention that the design of my blog needed work. Since good design is a very subjective term, much like good programming:...

Singularity Source Code Released to CodePlex

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:28:33 -0500

Just saw on OSNews that Microsoft Research has just released the Singularity Source Code on CodePlex. Microsoft has released source code from the...

ASP.NET MVC CAPTCHA

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:33:36 -0500

Note: Most recent update for MVC Release Candidate 3 is out. So my MVC application that I have been working on required a CAPTCHA today. The problem is...

Congratulations Penn State THON and Alpha Phi Delta

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:40 -0500

I would like to congratulate the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON™), it is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world, and this past...

ASP.NET MVC Route Validation and SEO

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:50:35 -0500

Recently I have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework for a project at work. And one of the requirements was that certain data inputed in to the URL be...

What I Learned About MVC On Day One

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:21:04 -0500

I am really blown back about how fast and easy MVC is to develop with. I know the guys at Microsoft do a good job with their .NET coding, but I am really...

Google Lets You "Chatback" With Your Visitors

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:46:52 -0500

As many of you may know I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the...

Nick Berardi's Essential Software for 2008

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:51:11 -0500

Every developer has their favorite tool collection that they must have in order to survive while developing software. The list below is indispensable in...

Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:21:41 -0500

I would like to thank Kyle Beyer of Daptivate for putting this post together. This is a great resource for developers as well as server administrators....

Lotus Notes, AOL for the Corporate World

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:40:11 -0500

So today I was reading Jeff's Post on The Dramatic Password Reveal, and I had a flash back, to about a year or more ago, when I was working for a large...

LINQ Cheat Sheet

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:45:38 -0500

This cheat sheet was compiled by Milan Negovan at http://www.aspnetresources.com/. It is very handy and I recommend everybody download it and print it...

How To: Change Instance Name Of SQL Server

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:16:55 -0500

Recently I change the network name of one of my servers at work, because the box changed its job from a virtual machine server to the database server....

How to use the .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy to run WordPress on IIS

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:00:22 -0500

First off I would like to say that many of my readers are very intelligent, they picked up on a one line sentence in my last post about my new design and...

Allow More Than One Remote Desktop Login Connection On GoDaddy's Virtual Dedicated Server's

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:50:47 -0500

Ever have one of those days where you are so eager to get home and watch Lost that you totally forget to log out of your Remote Desktop instance? Well I...

Add Data to Google Spreadsheets Using Forms

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:29:07 -0500

So today I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Google Operating System, and I saw an interesting development on the Google Docs front. Google...

Does anybody have a name for this programming pattern?

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:50:43 -0500

Recently I have been working very hard on getting a new Web 2.0 initiative off the ground. With most new initiatives I like to start out by looking for...

Coder Journal's New Year Make Over

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:07:08 -0500

New Theme My first major change was the development of my own theme. My old theme was clunky and overall I didn't like the feel that it gave to my reader...

2007 Year End Reivew

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:49:40 -0500

As you can see from the graph above everybody has helped make this a very successful year for Coder Journal. Some information that I have been able to...

Happy 25th Birthday TCP/IP

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:09:41 -0500

I didn't know this until today, but ARPANET adopted TCP/IP as the official communication protocol between computers on January 1st, 1983. I found this...

Happy New Year 2008

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:00:19 -0500

Happy New Year. In this new year I am planning on making big changes in Coder Journal, but still provide the same information that has proven so valuable...

R.I.P. Netscape Browser 1994 - Feb 2008

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:40:46 -0500

It has been a long time coming, but AOL has decided to retire the once unstoppable Netscape Browser, think 1998. Netscape has had a long and good life,...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays To All

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:33:51 -0500

My wife and I would like to say Merry Christmas to all of the daily readers that have made this blog so successful over the past year.

SEO and C# Extention Methods

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:04:29 -0500

I previously talked about the importance of using the correct kind of redirect to optimize your website for search engines in an article titled. World Of...

Windows Developer Just Don't Understand The Command Line

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:39:07 -0500

When I saw this post over on the Windows PowerShell Developers Blog. It really occurred to me for the first time that Windows Developers don't understand...

TF220064 - Team Foundation Server 2008 - Reporting Service Permissions

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:34:15 -0500

I decided to be one of those early installers that brave the RTM and hope everything has been programed correctly, so my current system doesn't get blown...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:07:27 -0500

Scott Guthrie has announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are now available for download and provides a tour of some of the new features. If you...

I Made It To Times Square

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:30:21 -0500

A couple of weeks ago I posed about the Anything For Sale By Owner Website that I lead the development effort in. Well coming this Thursday (2007-10-25)...

How to resolve relative url's without ResolveUrl

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:01:39 -0500

Sometimes you need to resolve relative url's without ResolveUrl. If the code is executing outside a Control, for example in an IHttpHandler or business...

Running Ubuntu Linux 7.04 On HP NC8430

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:29:11 -0500

I have to preface this with I did not write the following it is just a mirror of http://fp.ath.cx/nc8430-linux-howto.html, but I found it so useful that I...

EMC (VMware Parent) Buys Mozy Online Backup

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:01:03 -0500

As many of you many remember I have highly recommended Mozy in the past. I just got notice from Jeff of Windows Connected that EMC has recently just...

Anything For Sale By Owner

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:46:04 -0500

As I alluded in a post a couple of weeks ago, I have been a bad blogger. And I have neglected my community of readers. However I would like to tell you...

If Web Comments Met Real Life Situations (NSFW)

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:55:17 -0500

This made me laugh so hard that I just had to share it. You don't really realize just how juvenile some people until you can see and hear it.

100+ Most Useful Applications On The Web

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:47:55 -0500

I wanted to key my readers in to the great list that Scott Hanselman has put together of Ultimate Developer and Power User Tools.

I have been a bad Blogger

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:41:55 -0500

Hi loyal readers, I have to apologize, I have been a really bad blogger lately. I have neglected my blog because of a new job and a brand new Web 2.0 site...

Creating a more accurate JSON .NET Serializer

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:16:22 -0500

Recently I have been diving in to the world of REST and all the great things that come along with that. If you are not familiar with REST and what it...

Control Google Bot With The New X-Robots-Tag

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:26:57 -0500

Google has extended its support for Google Bot restriction by giving us web developers a new tool to stick in our belt. It was announced today on the...

Firefox 2.0.0.6 Only 13 Days After 2.0.0.5

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:50:39 -0500

Well it is official Firefox just released version 2.0.0.6 which makes the old version 2.0.0.5 just 13 days old and not needed anymore. The following...

Vista Performance and Reliability Pack Unofficial Release

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:08:01 -0500

Please note: These fixes break all current methods of bypassing driver singing requirements except the good old F8 during boot (that you have to do every...

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:39:24 -0500

I would like to let everybody know that today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, so go out and get him a beer or her a bundle of flowers for...

Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:56:06 -0500

I found this great article about Con Kolivas on Slashdot today: Linux is burdened with 'enterprise crap' that makes it run poorly on desktop PCs, says...

How To: Disable Driver Integrity Checks on Windows Vista x64

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:39:24 -0500

One of the new features of Windows Vista was the Driver integrity Checks. In the x64 version of the product it is turned on by default, and is a great...

History: Apple Had The First Virus, 25 Years Ago

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:05:12 -0500

Just saw this article over at The Register about the virus turning 25. Elk Cloner, which spread between Apple II computers via infected floppy disks, has...

Wii Debugging Your .NET Code On Linux

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:18:26 -0500

It's official MainSoft developers have too much time on their hands. I personally think so, but if you are one of those coders who always wished they...

Evolution Of LINQ And Its Impact C# 3.0

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:32:52 -0500

One of the things I love to learn about is the history of how things come to be. Specifically my interests have always been in the evolutions of religion...

Coder Journal now uses FeedBurner

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:56:06 -0500

Coder Journal has now switched it feeds to FeedBurner to reduce bandwidth costs. The new URL is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/coderjournal/ however...

Which web server is better under load, IIS 6 or Apache?

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:42:10 -0500

One of the many techno-geek religious arguments that comes up a lot is which web server has a faster response time under load, IIS 6 or Apache? I am happy...

SQL Server 2008 Will Have 7 New Datatypes

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:57:49 -0500

I haven't even herd of a new version of SQL Server 2008, coming out, but according to this blog the new version has some very interesting and new data...

How To: Connect To Cell Phone Internet Though Windows Vista

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:21:51 -0500

Since my last article I have updated the OS on my cell phone to AKU 3 for Windows Mobile 5.0. This has been a huge productivity increase, since there is...

Waking Up Early - 15 Tips That Work

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:43:42 -0500

David Cheong, a fellow software developer, has some very good tips for how to wake up early on his blog. I personally use half of them to get my self out...

Apple Safari 3.0.1 Released

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:47:39 -0500

Steve Jobs must have been kicking ass and taking names. Because only 3 days after the initial release, of Apple's Safari Web Browser for Windows that had...

Apple Safari Browser Welcomed To Real World With 6 Zero Day Exploits

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:17:59 -0500

Apple has just released a public beta of its Safari browser for Windows yesterday. And there have been already 6 zero day exploits and many, many crashes...

Ubuntu fans, I don't mean to gloat butt...

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:05:38 -0500

I don't usually like to post about when one of my predictions come true, butt... Many people told me I was flat out wrong about the support differences...

DRM-Free Doesn't Equal License Free

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:31:21 -0500

Last week Apple released iTunes Plus. Which is a higher quality download with no DRM for $1.29 US. However many people in the blogo-sphere have...

Less Rules Imposed The Better

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:56:45 -0500

Recently I read an article from Jeff Atwood, where he basically claimed the brevity leads to better code. Personally I think his example he gave: if (s ==...

Apple iTunes 7.2 Released

Wed, 30 May 2007 11:26:32 -0500

I am happy to announce that Apple iTunes 7.2 has been released and this is the first release since Windows Vista was released 6 months ago that worked...

Is there really a "Microsoft Tax" when support is involved?

Sat, 26 May 2007 05:02:52 -0500

You'll see many posts out on the web talking about what a great thing it is that Dell is offering a Free OS on their hardware. And many stories talking...

My Job Interview 2.0 Experience

Thu, 17 May 2007 07:21:16 -0500

Recently I read a post by Alex over at The Daily WTF... err... I mean Worse Than Failure. The article explained many of the tactics that the industry now...

A Blog Owners Best Friend Google Analytics

Tue, 15 May 2007 04:53:20 -0500

A major update has been pushed out for Google Analytics, as described in a post on Google Webmaster: Webmaster tools from Google are indispensable for...

Understanding C#: ?? Operator

Fri, 11 May 2007 10:06:12 -0500

The ?? operator returns the left-hand operand if it is not null, or else it returns the right operand. int? i = null; int count = i ?? 0; The value that...

Java for Evil Masterminds

Mon, 07 May 2007 08:21:50 -0500

If your goal is to take over the world by pure force of your coding skill and you are tired of all those namby-pamby coding languages and frameworks, you...

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Wed, 02 May 2007 04:04:38 -0500

Recently I have started seeing this number repeated over and over again on the net. You may be asking what it represents and why it is so important. Well...

Unfortunate Placement of Yahoo! Ad

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:54:09 -0500

Only a geek would find this funny. And if you really don't understand it then you may want to brush up on your HTTP Status Codes.

World Of HTTP/1.1 Status Codes

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:30:48 -0500

In a follow up to my previous post on Proper URL Construction, I am going to dive more deeply in to the Status Codes that control the redirects that were...

Welcome to Dot-Com Bubble 2.0

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:02:42 -0500

Jeff Atwood says all the signs are clear that we might be in the Dot-Com Bubble 2.0. The "dot-com bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly...

Fumbled Fumbles on the Microsoft Excel "Save As" Issue

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:34:16 -0500

I read a Digg post today, that some how made it to the front page, that just made me laugh. The author of the post was obviously very ignorant in his...

Sitemap Auto Discovery And You

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:15:15 -0500

Last week all the major search engine providers, announced that they were going to support a new specification at sitemap.org that allows them to auto...

Speeding up a Slow Outlook 2007

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:11:15 -0500

Just found a recent post by Scott Hanselman on how to speed up the slow load times of Outlook 2007, and I thougt it was worth passing on to my readers....

Apple announces Leopard delays due to the iPhone

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:50:00 -0500

For all the Apple fans out there expecting Leopard to be released in June, David from TUAW has some news for you. Apparently late October is the new date...

A Guide To Proper URL Construction

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:19:05 -0500

For many developers the URL Address is just a means to an end, so very little time is actually spent on creating and planning a URL that is both...

New Novell Ad Campaign: Mac vs. PC vs. Linux (Continued)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:21:36 -0500

In a follow up to a post last week about the Novell Mac Ad Spoofs. I found a 3rd spoof ad on YouTube: Apple Ad Spoof #3 from Novell

Mozy Backup Review

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:33:30 -0500

Just over 5 months ago I lost a ton of data in the process of a couple stupid moments, this included code I had not backed up, some documents, iTunes...

Creating a Vista like Search Box

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:14:01 -0500

Introduction In this post we are going to go over what it takes to create a control, and more specifically a Vista Search Box like control. Definition of...

Google Pack a Computer Users Best Friend

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:18:11 -0500

Do you hate having to go to umpteen sites just to download your essential software to get your computer running? Do you hate then having to again go to...

Bill Gates to finially graduate from college

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:21:45 -0500

According to Network Wold, Bill Gates will finally get his degree from Harvard. The article had the following to say: It's not like he needs it to beef up...

New Novell Ad Campaign: Mac vs. PC vs. Linux

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:02 -0500

Since today was pretty busy for me, and I haven't had time to post, I just wanted to share these two videos that gave me a good laugh. They came from...

Apple iTunes: Changing the error message doesn't fix the problem

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:25:39 -0500

Well it's been a whole 8 days since the last Apple iTunes release 7.1 where Apple wanted us Windows Vista users to be unsecured so they could install the...

Windows Vista EULA Modified for Windows Anytime Upgrades - No More Limits

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:21:42 -0500

We're making a small but significant modification to the Windows Vista End-User License Agreement (EULA) for Windows Anytime Upgrade. Customers who...

Using Distributed Transactions in your Data Layer

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:59:32 -0500

Many developers use a pattern called ORM or Object Relation Mapping to generate data layers for their application. Many other developers choose to create...

How To: Unit Test Hidden Classes

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:38:59 -0500

Unit testing is an important part of developing high quality software. Many of you are probably not familiar with the term Unit Testing. Wikipedia defines...

Remote Desktop for Linux

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:49:41 -0500

One of features in Windows that I could not live with out is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). It is one of the best tools out there for remote viewing...

5 Easy Steps To Get iTunes Working On Windows Vista x64

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:01:14 -0500

This morning I wrote about the problems I had installing the newly released iTunes for Windows Vista Ultimate x64. I just recently found a solution to the...

Apple iTunes 7.1 Released for Windows Vista

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:31:58 -0500

Well its offical Apple iTunes 7.1 was just recently released. This is the quote from the Apple Site on the release: About iTunes 7.1 for Windows iTunes is...

Track Cookie Usage with a Web Service via AJAX

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:01:11 -0500

Many of the modern and sophisticated traffic monitoring software can track everything from number of visits, where a visitor came from, what search terms...

Send Google Maps to your BMW

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:38:18 -0500

Google Maps Germany has a new feature: if you have a BMW car that includes a navigation system and you happen to live in Germany, it's easy to send the...

Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:00:44 -0500

I was reading Tim Sneath's blog today and noticed his post on the release of a Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista was released. It is a...

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Error Connecting in Vista

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:44:33 -0500

As you may all know I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and last post I talked about upgrading to SQL Server 2005 SP2. However while starting my first...

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 for Vista

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:45:38 -0500

Microsoft with out much fan far released service pack 2 for SQL Server 2005. There is a whole laundry list of new features and bug fixes listed on MSDN....

Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:31:28 -0500

This question comes up a lot when my friends and co-workers are arguing over the merits of Windows Vista. They say, "My {insert some Linux distro here}...

Sound Bytes Podcast is back!

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:42:13 -0500

Well it has been a little over a three month since their original Podcast server bit the dust. But I am happy to welcome back the Sound Bytes Podcast, and...

Cell Phone USB Modem Driver for Windows Vista

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:28:15 -0500

When Windows Vista first came out nearly 3 months ago, I had a difficult time getting my XV-6700 PDA Phone from Verizon to connect to my laptop as a CDMA...

The Evolution of a Programmer

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:07:33 -0500

I just found this today out on the net, it seems to have many forms so the author is Anonymous. High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END First...

Understand C#: Proper use IDisposable and using keyword

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:05:13 -0500

The System.IDisposable interface is a very useful interface to understand if you are concerned about performance in your application. Microsoft says the...

Remove Updater5 from My Documents Folder

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:39:50 -0500

Well I finally figured out how to remove the Updater5 folder from your My Documents folder. I have written about this problem, as well as many other...

Virtual PC 2007 available for free download

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:48:12 -0500

Microsoft has made the full version of Virtual PC 2007 available for download from their web site. The program is supported on the following servers:...

Penn State Students raise $5.2 MILLION for Kids with Cancer.

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:44:22 -0500

This really doesn't have to do with computers. But while I was attending Penn State I was able to participate in THON. Each year they raise more money for...

Rant: Passwords and public sites.

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:28:49 -0500

I have recently run in to a couple websites which have a very annoying "feature". Basically they have taken an internal policy applying to passwords and...

Apple: None Of Our Products Is Windows Vista Compatible

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:55:06 -0500

It seems like the multi-billion dollar children are at it again. The bitter rivalry between these two companies ceases to amaze me. Apparently none of...

Setting up iTunes on Windows Vista 64-bit

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:37:24 -0500

Many of my co-workers and friends have been having trouble setting up iTunes on Windows Vista 64-bit. So I thought I would put together a quick reference...

Windows Vista Blue Screen (of Death)?

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:11:49 -0500

I woke up this morning and found the following error on my Windows Vista 64-bit box. I am guessing the Blue Screen happened from some chipset drivers I...

Update from Adobe

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:35:54 -0500

Recently I posted about the bad user experience that the Adobe Update Manager provided. On the same day that I posted that entry I also sent a note to...

Adobe what where you thinking?

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:56:40 -0500

Recently I upgraded Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0. I would first like to say that I found the new updated user interface a very nice experience. However there...