I had a great time last night speaking on [what I call] composite web application development in Asheville, NC last night. Thanks a lot to the group for allowing me the opportunity to provide the presentation. Hope you guys got some inspiration from it and that it'll aid in your development effo... [More]

Today I gave a short presentation today at Microsoft Charlotte on using Unity and ASP.NET MVC together. I promised to post the code and presentation, so this is the requisite blog post doing that very thing. Thanks a lot to Brian Hitney, Chad Brooks, Glen Gordon, and the Southern Fried Road Show cre... [More]

ORCS Web is proud to be offering a free beta hosting account to developers who want to try Visual Studio 2010 but have no idea how to find hosting for their prototypes. Go ahead and sign up for a plan, in fact, and then come back to this blog post while we're flipping bits and spawning process... [More]

I read an article once about a lifehack for balancing your work and procrastination. I've looked high and low for the link to no avail, so sorry for the lack of deeper information. The lifehack outlined a solution for the computer-staring workers - programmers, analysts, and so on - who are fa... [More]

In Part 1 of this series I demonstrated how QUnit can be used to test JsonResult action methods in ASP.NET MVC applications. Part 2 will take the idea a little further by showing an example of how QUnit can be used to inspect potential user-input areas on your MVC forms and to use those values in ... [More]

One of the problems that face any web developer is their ability to properly test the GUI components of their sites. A few options exist, specifically Watin, with varying degrees of success. Now that I've been experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC framework I've modified a good deal of my GUI... [More]

I think there exists some value in a direct mapping between your software's system roles, the functions provided to each role, and the tests one writes to verify that each type of user can perform each task with the same desired outcome. Albeit a simplistic (or trite) view of the process of cr... [More]

During a conversation the other night Joaquin Phoenix came up. My mother-in-law had seen something about how he was trying his hand at hip-hop, which I'd read a few other places. I said something about getting a very Andy Kaufman vibe from his behavior of late. Then today I see this link on Bu... [More]

Anyone who knows me knows darned well that I'll be a coffee fan to the end so it's not surprising that I'll start a post like this. Granted, the first thing I do in the morning on the way through through the kitchen is to push the little green button on the front of the coffee maker. T... [More]

I've been able to repair the broken code display. Thank goodness, and to the new syntax highlighter I'm using.