Programming By A Tool

So as I further my side journey into Python, or Pylons to be more exact, one of the decent things I’ve run into is that Mako templating system. What is that? It’s what runs along side of Pylons (Or at least one of many) for displaying the View side of the whole MVC thing. Now [...]

Yeah I’m using python/pylons, don’t you worry about it. So ran into this while looking over a pylons tutorial.  Turns out, that method was removed in Pylons 1.0 but the tutorial was a little bit old. So instead of: redirect_to(controller=’hello’, action=’other_action’, _code=303) just use: from pylons import url from pylons.controllers.util import abort, redirect … redirect(url(controller=’hello’, [...]

The Challenge Recently I was challenged with the task of connecting a web application to Twitter and sending out a tweet. This article will focus on the connection to Twitter, saving the talk about sending out a tweet for another article.  Having used TweetSharp last year, I thought I would check for an updated version [...]

So another quick one.  Say you have a style for creating round buttons, but you don’t want to include a size, how a size be applied without touching the original style?  Well you could just adjust the properties right on the button, but what if you want something a little more reusable?  It’s actually pretty [...]

Ok so this one is a simple one.  Well at least once you see it in action.  Say you want to get rid of the built in windows header bar: You know, that thing. Well it’s crazy simple. And I mean crazy as in mind boggling, not crazy like dress up your cat in clothes [...]

So one of the things I was forced to use, semi kicking and screaming, at one point in my illustrious career was the Spark View Engine for ASP.Net MVC. Actually that’s not totally true. I only kicked for a bit then skipped the screaming once I noticed what it did: It took all the ugly [...]

Yeah, you read that right.  ByATool.com is looking to add one or two writers with various IT backgrounds.  This is not a job, it is simply an avenue for you to get your work read.  We want to know what YOU want to write about.  It’s no fun to be given a topic to write [...]

Just kinda geeking out about this, but when looking over some of the new features for Visual Studio 2010  I caught this little gem in the white paper…. You see that?…. IT’s A SHAREPOINT SITE IN THE SERVER EXPLORER!!  <Rubs hands together gleefully> Now… to figure out how to fit playing with this in after [...]

PART 1:  Setting up the database and Entity Framework Model Okay, so say you need to create an internal IIS hosted web application that acts as a portal for managing internal training courses.  You could do a simple ASP.NET web forms app…. but what’s the fun in that?!?  Besides, you know that you’re going to [...]

Quick hit, you might get this if you try loading the bin directory of the nantcontrib project AND YOU DIDN’T FOLLOW THIS POST. Solution, FOLLOW THIS POST or you can simply remove the CollectionGen.dll from the bin directory. However if you do that, you aren’t helping my bounce rate and that makes you a Communist… [...]