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Formatting JavaScript Date

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:27:23 GMT

Formatting DateTime in C# is dead simple – just call ToString() passing in the format string you desire. Doing the same in JavaScript is annoyingly cumbersome. Today, I came across a nice little...

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Agile Fragile

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:08:25 GMT

I’m going to indulge myself by having a nice old fashioned rant. The topic of choice is “Agile”. A few experiences and conversations of the recent past have compelled me to write something on this...

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The Other Side of NuGet

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:37:58 GMT

NuGet is a very nice addition to the .NET developers’ arsenal. It is a central place for every library and framework in .NET. It has pretty good tooling integrated into Visual Studio and the command...

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DDD North 2011

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:22:40 GMT

One week after DDD Belfast, I was up in Sunderland for the first ever DDD North. The session line-up looked fantastic and it geared up to be a fantastic day. My Session Clean Up Your JavaScript Act...

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DDD Belfast 2011

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:40:07 GMT

After repeated attempts to resume blogging, I think I’m pretty much determined to end my hiatus. And I’ll start off with my experience at DDD Belfast. Apart from a Scott Gu special event last year,...

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2011 MVP Hat Trick

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:32:41 GMT

Got this email today: "Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their...

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My CQRS Session at the Canary Wharf Dot Net User Group

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:14:00 GMT

About a couple of weeks ago, I presented some very basic CQRS and Event Sourcing concepts to the Canary Wharf Dot Net User Group. It was an interesting experience to say the least. About everybody...

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ASP.NET MVC Gotcha – String as Model

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:25:00 GMT

A very common task in ASP.NET MVC is to return a ViewResult from a controller Action. This is usually achieved by a simple: return View(“ViewName”, modelForTheView); And this works...

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Ninja Coding: Composition over Inheritance–Even when Overriding

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:08:45 GMT

We’ve all heard it a million times – composition is favourable to inheritance. But inheritance can sometimes come with its own charms. One of its main attractions is to do some grunt work in a base...

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ViewBag can be good…honestly

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:47:22 GMT

A lot of people seem to have an allergic reaction towards anything not “strongly typed”. They abhor ViewBag and resent ViewData[“key”] for passing values from the controller to the view. They write...

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Introducing MSMSpec

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:35:00 GMT

http://msmspec.codeplex.com/ MSMSpec is a T4 based tool that can generate MSTest code to extend your MSpec (Machine.Specifications) tests so that they can run under anything that runs MSTest. This...

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Introducing SeleniuMspec

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:02:29 GMT

Happy new year to you all. And to celebrate, I’ve just published my first codeplex project. SeleniuMspec is a template that you can use to generate MSpec BDD tests from Selenium IDE. I’ve been using...

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Ninja Coding: Code Comments and Self Explanatory Code

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:06:41 GMT

It’s been a while since I last blogged and thought I would get back into the habit by starting off a new category of posts. The title for this category is “Ninja Coding” and will cover topics from...

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ASP.NET MVC 3 CTP1 View Improvements

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:12:40 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 3 CTP1 has introduced many improvements, not least of which is in the View. This screencast explores the improvements in the View, specially looking at the awesome new ViewEngine – Razor....

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Selecting ListView Items with CheckBoxes

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:57:28 GMT

Often we need to enable users to select multiple items from a ListView control and do a batch operation on them. While the ListView control does enable selection, it only supports selecting one row...

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ASP.NET Routing with IIS 7 – Remember Your Modules

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:04:57 GMT

ASP.NET 4.0 introduces routing and it works very well. With IIS 7, there are some interesting configuration options that can help improve your site's performance. When done wrong, they can have...

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BUET, World Cups, Politicians, Students, Teachers, Authorities… ah BUET

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:31:30 GMT

I was planning on starting a write up involving ASP.NET, EF4, Spark, MSpec etc. when Zinat came over to tell me that BUET halls were again vacant. Slightly surprised, I went through facebook comments...

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Anonymous Types are Internal, C# 4.0 Dynamic Beware!

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:10:47 GMT

C# 4.0 has introduced the dynamic keyword. You can declare a variable as dynamic and regardless of what can be inferred at compile time, you can access any properties and call any methods and your...

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ASP.NET MVC – Unit Testing JsonResult Returning Anonymous Types

Tue, 25 May 2010 15:41:54 GMT

Unit testing of ASP.NET MVC JsonResults can be a source of confusion. The problem arises from the fact that an Action Method itself doesn't produce any html / json / string output – it simply returns...

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Fetching a Property Value via Reflection

Mon, 10 May 2010 21:31:51 GMT

Reflection is a method by which we can use metadata at runtime to dynamically create an instance of a type, bind the type to an existing object, or get the type from an existing object and invoke its...

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