Programming By A Tool

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 [...]

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… [...]

I understand I’m not what you call the sharpest bulb in the bunch, but readmes shouldn’t be painful. They should be helpful. They should be kind and gentle, and remind you that the world is great and wonderful. Not put you on the verge of a three figure body count. In a way, this is [...]

Another quick one, and I’ll probably file this under “I don’t care you if need this but I’m posting it because I have a bad memory”. When you use the jQuery Modal Dialog with an embedded video, like say something from youtube, and you have a modal dialog on the same page, you might notice [...]

This should be quick, so don’t expect my usual charming self. If you’ve run into this problem, and chances are you have, you’re probably as frustrated as a thumbless hitchhiker. Good thing is, I have the solution and you can watch it here on video: HAHAH THAT WAS FUNNY! Yeah I’m not that big of [...]

This is the first part of a I HAVE NO CLUE HOW MANY part thing involving Nant and how to use it to make your life easier. Of course you might wonder why I’m using Nant over say MSBuild, (Though I’m sure you were actually wondering if you really can get ripped in two weeks) [...]

In my last post, I showed you the wonder of the WindsorContainer and creating concrete objects from a config file… but I wasn’t done yet. In fact, if you looked at my example and used your keen sense of observation (I’m suspending my disbelief) you might have noticed a little somethin’ somethin’ in the config [...]

So here’s the issue, you have a class that you new up within a class. class SomeClass { private HelperClass someHelperClass; public SomeClass() { someHelperClass = new HelperClass(); } public String DoSomething() { return someHelperClass.DoSomeThing(); } } You with me? Cause if you’re not, you’ve probably made a serious error in career choice. Now what’s [...]

Example here. File this under “Why?” but I wanted to see if a child could talk to a parent and then receive information back from the parent to update itself with. As usual, my lack of intelligent wording probably has you scratching your head… if you do that. Personally I don’t get that expression as [...]

Being that I am the man, I thought I would share this little thingy with you because… well I’m the man. So here’s the issue:  You have a date picker, a modal dialog, and you can’t see the calendar when you click on the icon and/or textbox. First thought, ‘WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME???!?!’ [...]