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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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Using the Scoring Game from POP Forums with your ASP.NET MVC app
Jan 1227Let me tell you a story of HR-discouraged workplace fun. Back in the day, prior to the crash-and-burn of Insurance.com, we had this thing in the development part of the company called the Scoring Game. I wrote about it a couple of years ago on my personal blog. The long and short of it is that we kept a running total of +/-1’s for virtually anything you can think of, for each participant. This was back in 2006, before it became trendy to do it for everything else on the Internets. Later, Dig...
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POP Forums v9.2.1 posted to CodePlex, adds only Spanish translation
Jan 1226Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I've got an updated version of our most recent POP Forums drop. The new v9.2.1 adds Spanish along side of Danish, German and English as available languages. It has no new features or bug fixes, so if you have v9.2.0, and you don't need Spanish, these aren't the droids you're looking for. Want to translate to yet another language? Drop me a line: jeff@popw.com. ...
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POP Forums v9.2 posted to CodePlex, with new languages, post voting and the scoring game
Jan 1224POP Forums v9.2.0 is the third release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are available in the documentation section. Upgrading? If you're upgrading from v9.0 or v9.1, simply replace the existing files. You'll also have to run the PopForums4.xto4.2.sql SQL script against your existing database. That ...
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The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC
Jan 1209Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially in combination with C# 5 and async/await) they reached the same easiness of use of the standard synchronous controller. Now (or better, in a few months with the release of ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET 4.5 and C# 5) you can write public async Task<ViewResult> Stuff() { return View(await DoStuff("Some stuff")); } In this post I’m going to...
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Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year
Dec 1123This is the time of year when people look back at the year just passed, review and looks out for the year to come. My retrospection post will come in the new year, but for the moment I want to review my top posts of 2011. The most popular post of 2011 1. The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far – This blog post contains the list of all the version of ASP.NET MVC, and the features that were brought into each version. It was featured in the home page of the asp.net portal for a few days at the b...
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ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress
Dec 1122The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create integration tests for ASP.NET MVC applications by using a combination of Selenium WebDriver and IISExpress. Integration tests are useful when you want to test an entire user story. For example, you might want to test whether a user can successfully add an item to a shopping cart. Adding an item to a shopping cart might require the execution of C# code, database code, and JavaScript code. Using an integration test, you can verify t...
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What's new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January
Dec 1122ASP.NET MVC 4 is the new version of ASP.NET MVC that came out during Build in September: it included a few pretty interesting features like a newly revamped project template, a better asynchronous controller and, the main feature, native support for mobile version of the site, with device detection and mobile only views. Also some productivity enhancement were introduced, like recipes to automate repetitive coding tasks. And finally, if you run ASP.NET MVC 4 on top of ASP.NET 4.5, you also g...
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POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!
Dec 1115Finally! After moving, being a dad and engaging in a great deal of home improvement, I finally managed to find time to an update out to POP Forums. I hope to not be that guy anymore, going forever between updates. Release Notes This is the first release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are ...
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Set the AsyncTimeout attribute for your async controllers
Dec 1107Today I decided to convert an action that was making various long calls to external webservices to be asynchronous. With the synchronous version it was long but still under the default script timeout of ASP.NET, so I was very surprised when the async version was returning a System.TimeoutException, even if it was still taking the same amount of time. I tried increasing the ScriptTimeout, but still no luck: the page was timing out. After a bit of searching online I found out that for some str...
