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Git Tips & Tricks, Part 5–Checking Your Commit for TODOs 27 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am

Today’s simple tip will show you how to check for lingering “TODO” comments before you push your code up to your shared repository. Have you ever dropped a TODO in your code to remind you to come bac...

Git Tips & Tricks, Part 4–Breaking a Commit Up 23 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am

Today’s tip is pretty simple.  I’m going to show you how you can break up a commit into multiple, smaller commits after you’ve already committed everything to your local repo. I’m a big advocate of p...

SpecsFor.Mvc 3.0 Preview 2 Package Released! 2 Aug 2013 | 09:22 am

The new ‘preview 2’ release of SpecsFor.Mvc is now available on NuGet.   This update is built against the latest Selenium WebDriver package and ASP.NET MVC 4.  It no longer depends on MvcContrib.TestH...

Highlighting the Current Link in a Menu with ASP.NET MVC 29 Jul 2013 | 11:26 pm

A fairly-common UX pattern is highlighting the link within a menu that corresponds to the page or section that a user is currently on.  This can be done quite easily in ASP.NET MVC.  Here’s a simple, ...

Book Review: Instant Razor View Engine How-to 17 Jul 2013 | 10:22 pm

I consider myself an ASP.NET MVC expert.  I’m very comfortable with the platform, I’ve been through a large portion of the source, and I’ve built countless apps on it.  While I did find “Instant Razor...

CodeStock 2013 Wrap-up 15 Jul 2013 | 07:55 am

I had a blast at CodeStock 2013 this past weekend.  I met a lot of cool people, attended some great sessions, and got to hang out with some good friends. I presented two sessions this year.  “Testing...

Git Tips & Tricks, Part 3–Changing History with Rebase 11 Jul 2013 | 11:01 pm

In my last post, I alluded to combining commits before pushing them to the shared repository.  The magic command that can make that happen is “rebase,” and I’m going to show you how I use it every day...

Git Tips & Tricks, Part 2–A Simple Workflow 25 Jun 2013 | 02:52 am

Git’s flexibility allows you to use it however you want.  Your day-to-day workflow can be as complex or as simple as you decide to make it.   Here’s a “simple” workflow that my team and I use. We hav...

Git Tips & Tricks, Part 1–Tools 19 Jun 2013 | 10:14 pm

Git is great.  You should start using it immediately (if not sooner!)  In this new “Git Tips & Tricks” series, I’m not going to talk about the basic git operations that have already been covered by mo...

Using Cloudmailin’ with ASP.NET MVC 12 Jun 2013 | 06:23 am

I’m building an ASP.NET MVC app that receives E-mail via Cloudmailin.com’s service.   In this post, I’ll show you how to create a handler for Cloudmailin using MVC, and I’ll show you how to test that ...

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