Edward Charbeneau Exploring HTML Prototypes with Git Git isn't just for source code, but it also helps with the prototyping of the user interface. It allows for... 14 December 2012 10 min read
Dino Esposito Route Validation and Controller Validation in ASP.NET MVC The ASP.NET MVC controller is a good friend of web developers. There are a host of features in it that... 13 December 2012 10 min read
Nick Harrison Client-Side Markup with JQuery Cloning and Templates Almost certainly, any HTML-based application is going to need to create markup on the client-side, using JavaScript. The language isn't... 27 November 2012 12 min read
Ben Adderson Automated Deployments: The Tester's Tale Why should an automated deployment process be such an advantage? Once a process is scripted reliably, it can be repeated... 23 November 2012 10 min read
Dino Esposito Routing the ASP.NET Way ASP.NET MVC is built on top of ASP.NET's HTTP handlers and ad hoc URLs. The process of routing a URL... 20 November 2012 11 min read
Tom Fischer View-Models with Flags in WPF Enums in .NET are strongly-typed constants that allow you to share a multi-valued property across applications. When used in a... 29 October 2012 9 min read
Edward Charbeneau Writing Custom HTML Helpers for ASP.NET MVC Switching from developing ASP.NET WebForms to MVC might seem awkward at first, but Ed demonstrates why the change needn't be... 24 October 2012 17 min read
Andrew Hunter Are Unit Tests Overused? Unit Testing has come to dominate the many types of test that are used in developing applications. This has inevitably... 19 October 2012 13 min read
Dino Esposito Syntactic Sugar and the Async Pill Asynchrony is essential for scalability and performance on the server side. Although it has always been possible to write asynchronous... 18 October 2012 12 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET: Go Async or Sink To be scalable, web applications have always had to be asynchronous, even if the programmer did not need to be... 12 September 2012 11 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook: Part 8: Log Messages There should always be a reason for a commit to source control, so why not make a log message mandatory... 11 September 2012 18 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET MVC Controllers and Conventions Why is it that ASP.NET MVC has such strongly-enforced naming conventions? Can conventions for the default behaviour of code actually... 22 August 2012 12 min read
Edward Charbeneau Rapid Prototyping, the MVC Working Model If you've ever had to build a working model from scratch, or produce a quick prototype for something, you know... 16 August 2012 10 min read
Dino Esposito Simulating Web API – JSON Formatters in ASP.NET MVC The Web API framework is a useful tool for building RESTful ASP.NET MVC4 applications, but it's not essential. Dino Esposito... 23 July 2012 10 min read
Nick Harrison jQuery Fast Food Cook Book Anyone in IT should be aware of jQuery. This free, open-source JavaScript library has become amost essential to anyone creating... 11 July 2012 17 min read
Chris Farrell .NET Memory Management Basics .NET memory management is designed so that the programmer is freed from the chore of consciously having to allocate and... 11 July 2012 19 min read
Edward Charbeneau Responsive design using Foundation with ASP.Net MVC There are several frameworks that take away the hard work of implementing a responsive design for a website, that will... 26 June 2012 22 min read
Dino Esposito The Three Models of ASP.NET MVC Apps We've inherited from the original MVC pattern a rather simplistic idea of what should be in the Model. In fact,... 12 June 2012 12 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 7: Managing Revisions Here are recipes to manage Subversion source control revisions effectively, such as managing revisions, working out the current revision, whether... 30 May 2012 19 min read
Edward Charbeneau A Foundation for the Web Because we can now run browsers on devices of a wide range of screen-sizes, content publishers have had to find... 28 May 2012 8 min read
