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  • The BackboneJS and Knockout Danceoff

    The BackboneJS and Knockout Danceoff

    Aug 11
    09

    I just rolled out Tekpub’s latest drop for the MVC 3 series: BackboneJS with MVC 3, and a lot of people are curious why I didn’t use Knockout. So here ya go - my thoughts on the two. http://www.pimpartworks.com/artwork/gmayhew/dance-off They Don’t Do The Same Thing It’s important to realize straight away that Knockout’s focus is different than Backbone. You can do the same things with Knockout that you can with Backbone - and vise-versa - but all they definitely are not two of the same f...

  • Massive and Complexity

    Massive and Complexity

    Aug 11
    09

    Got an email today from someone watching the MVC 3 series and they asked the question (paraphrasing): “I like what you’re doing with Massive - but can it handle complex queries?”. This, fortunately, is where Massive shines. In response I wrote this: “Absolutely. In fact it’s why I wrote it. Here’s a semi-complex query that is all too common in the business case: var results - DynamicModel.Open(connectionString).Query(@" SELECT Orders.OrderNumber, Categories.Name FROM Products INNER JOIN...

  • Unix Fight! - Sed, Grep, Awk, Cut and Pulling Groups out of a PowerShell Regular Expression Capture

    Unix Fight! - Sed, Grep, Awk, Cut and Pulling Groups out of a PowerShell Regular Expression Capture

    Aug 11
    01

    There's a wonderful old programmers joke I've told for years: You've got a problem, and you've decided to use regular expressions to solve it. Ok, now you've got two problems... A friend of mine was talking on a social network and said something like: That decade I spent in the Windows world stunted my growth. one teeny-tiny unix command grabbed certain values from an XML doc for me. Now, of course, I took this immediately as a personal challenge and rose up in a rit of fealous ...

  • Scott's Wonderful Twitter Favorites - Link Roundup 2

    Scott's Wonderful Twitter Favorites - Link Roundup 2

    Jul 11
    21

    I realize that many (most) of you are not on Twitter. I am, however, on Twitter and I find it to be a joy. I have had a few complaints (just a few) because I tend to be random on Twitter. If you want only a stream of technical .NET resources, then don't follow me. However, if you want to follow the Whole Person, then please, join the fun. The most wonderful part of Twitter is just letting it flow over you. I tend to discover lots of interesting and cool stuff. So much so that I've started ...

  • MVC 3 - Razor Helpers

    MVC 3 - Razor Helpers

    Jun 11
    23

    In this video, you will learn how to use both extension methods and declarative @helper syntax in Razor views....

  • Now Visual Studio 2010 supports new web standards

    Now Visual Studio 2010 supports new web standards

    Jun 11
    16

    Today the Web Platform and Tools team (I can see the influence of Mads in this) announced the release of the Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1. What sits behind this cryptic name? Shouldn’t Visual Studio already support web standards? Actually, not the latest ones. In January Microsoft released the support for HTML5 in the context of intellisense and validation in VS2010 SP1, but all the other related standards, CSS3 and all the new JavaScript standards were left o...

  • Announcing the Web Standards Update - HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

    Announcing the Web Standards Update - HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

    Jun 11
    15

    Folks have been asking When will VS2010 support HTML5? I've been saying, jokingly, that the answer is yesterday as there's nothing keeping you from creating HTML5 in Visual Studio or ASP.NET today. However, there's no intellisense and there's lots of squiggly lines that make people uncomfortable. Combine all that with the fact that HTML5 is a moving target, and it's unclear. We've said before that the next version of Visual Studio will have better support HTML5, but what about today? Today,...

  • TechDays Belgium: videos are online

    TechDays Belgium: videos are online

    Jun 11
    12

    At the end of April, Microsoft Belgium organized the TechDays Belgium, the annual developer and IT conference in Belgium, to which I had the pleasure to attend. I also manned the Ask The Expert booth and helped attendees with their questions about ASP.NET MVC, Orchard and web development. It was 3 days of very interesting sessions, ranging from the keynote/standup comedy show by Scott Hanselman to the ASP.NET MVC Deep Dive sessions by Hadi Hariri and to the Girls-Power WP7 development sessio...