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  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love"

    Apr 12
    03

    This is the third post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch in the next month or two. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects I finally hit a point in the re-do of CoasterBuzz where I feel like the major pieces are in place... rewritten, ported and what not, so that I can focus now on front-end design and more interesting creative problems. I've been asked on more than one occasion (OK, just...

  • Fun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework

    Fun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework

    Feb 11
    02

    There was interesting discussion about noun pluralization on a mailing list today. One of the fun demos I throw into some talks is the automatic pluralization (taking something singular and making it plural) that's built into the Entity Framework design time tooling. For example, look at the screenshot to the right where a table of type Goose is called Geese as a set. Dmitry released a nice Simple English Noun Pluralizer a few years back. His code is fun to read and clever for under 400 li...

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  • Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)

    Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)

    Nov 10
    16

    We recently released the latest preview release of MVC 3, including an updated version of Razor.  One of the things we did in this release is simplify the hosting APIs dramatically.  I did a demo of these new APIs in a pre-recorded PDC10 talk I did with Scott Hunter, which is available to stream here: http://bit.ly/ac7B0P.  As I promised in that talk (and a few others before and after it ), I'm finally blogging about the sample I showed in that talk! The hosting APIs center around two classe...

  • Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)

    Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net (Revised for MVC3 RC!)

    Nov 10
    16

    We recently released the latest preview release of MVC 3, including an updated version of Razor.  One of the things we did in this release is simplify the hosting APIs dramatically.  I did a demo of these new APIs in a pre-recorded PDC10 talk I did with Scott Hunter, which is available to stream here: http://bit.ly/ac7B0P.  As I promised in that talk (and a few others before and after it ), I'm finally blogging about the sample I showed in that talk! The hosting APIs center around two classe...

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