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The Search Engine Developer 24 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm
Scott Hanselman yesterday posted a piece on how easy it is to become what I call a Search Engine Developer. His post really hit home with me as I've done a lot of research for various development chal...
IIS Default Documents vs. ASP.NET MVC Routes 16 Aug 2013 | 08:38 am
Here's a question that I've quite a few times over the years and that takes me a minute to remember myself every time I try to use a static Default document in an ASP.NET MVC application - as I often ...
Rendering ASP.NET MVC Razor Views outside of MVC revisited 16 Jul 2013 | 01:48 am
Last year I posted a detailed article on how to render Razor Views to string both inside of ASP.NET MVC and outside of it. In that article I showed several different approaches to capture the renderin...
HTML5 and CSS3 Editing in Windows Live Writer 8 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
Windows Live Writer is a wonderful tool for editing blog posts and getting them posted to your blog. What makes it nice is that it has a small set of useful features, plus a simple plug-in model that ...
Using HTML 5 SessionState to save rendered Page Content 2 Jul 2013 | 03:46 am
HTML 5 SessionState and LocalStorage are very useful and super easy to use to manage client side state. For building rich client side or SPA style applications it's a vital feature to be able to cache...
Fixing a SkyDrive Sync Disaster 21 Jun 2013 | 08:27 pm
For a few months I've been using SkyDrive to handle some basic synching tasks for a number of folders of mine. Specifically I've been dumping a few of my development folders into sky drive so I have a...
Replacing jQuery.live() with jQuery.on() 12 Jun 2013 | 11:40 pm
jQuery 1.9 and 1.10 have introduced a host of changes, but for the most part these changes are mostly transparent to existing application usage of jQuery. After spending some time last week with a few...
Setting up and using Bing Translate API Service for Machine Translation 6 Jun 2013 | 02:52 pm
Last week I spent quite a bit of time trying to set up the Bing Translate API service. I can honestly say this was one of the most screwed up developer experiences I've had in a long while - specifica...
Smoothing out <div> scrolling in Mobile WebKit Browsers 2 Jun 2013 | 06:13 am
One thing that is annoyingly bad in WebKit mobile browsers - and especially on iOS mobile browsers - is the default scroll behavior for HTML elements that have text overflow. Unlike desktop browsers w...
A first look at SignalR 22 May 2013 | 05:23 pm
SignalR is the latest in a long string of new technologies pouring out from the ASP.NET team recently, when Microsoft rolled out version 1.0 of SignalR when Visual Studio Update 2 was announced. In a...
