Tagg: ASP.NET

I posted here a while back on using GitHub with Visual Studio 2010. It was a fairly involved process using a third party plugin. Well now you can integrate with GitHub directly from Visual Studio, and it’s much, much easier. I used it yesterday to make my DataAnnotationValidator (blogged about here) available on GitHub for […]

I was in Rockville last week, acting as the BORG (Back Of the Room Guy) for another instructor. About half the students were attending remotely, using Learning Tree’s AnyWare system – and one of them was joining us all the way from Sweden, which meant he had a different keyboard layout. Fortunately, that was easily […]

I was back in Learning Tree’s Reston offices last week, presenting the beta of my new ASP.NET course – Building ASP.NET Web Applications: Hands-On.  (The beta is part of our course development process where we try out the course in front of students for the first time.  Their feedback is an important part of refining […]

This week I uploaded a new version of www.cocktailsrus.com. I didn’t change all that much… just upgraded the server to .NET 4.5, upgraded MVC4 from beta to release, Entity Framework to 5.0, jQuery to 1.8.3, jQuery UI to 1.9.2 and jQuery Mobile to 1.2.0. Oh, and I finally made the move to storing the images […]

Google have made their internal coding style guides publicly available. I’ve been checking out the HTML and CSS and JavaScript guides over the past couple of days, and would strongly recommend that anyone working on the client-side take a look at both. Guides like these are full of little tips and tricks. They give you […]