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What Is The Spirit of Open Source?
Feb 1222In my last post, I attempted to make a distinction between Open Source and Open Source Software. Some folks took issue with the post and that’s great! I love a healthy debate. It’s an opportunity to learn. One minor request though. If you disagree with me, I do humbly ask that you read the whole post first before you go and rip me a new one. It was interesting to me that critics fell into two opposing camps. There were those who felt that it was was disingenuous for me to use the term “open ...
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How to access controller methods from a view in ASP.NET MVC
Jul 1130This question has been posed in several places. One of the places is on StackOverflow here. The use case here is that my controller has important state or an important function, and I’d like to leverage it from the view. It’s not appropriate to factor out to an html helper or other view-based utility class. It is something unique to the controller. It would be very easy to just pass the controller over to the view so that the view could make use of its methods, but there is a lot of discussion...
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The Software Craftsmanship Club
Jul 1001That's right, I started a club! It happened somewhat suddenly after the last Austin Code Camp. We were sitting outside on the patio, either discussing about various subjects or listening to one of Scott Bellware's mad genius rants. The sun was going down and the temperature was very comfortable, despite having had eaten too much food. With slightly weakened inhibitions, due to a few glasses of beer, I started talking about my quest to become a master craftsman. But I knew I wouldn't do it by m...
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