The Joy of Excellence

Month: June 2009

  • Saturday Night Wrestling with MVC

    Ok… It wasn’t really that bad, but it did take some effort. Here was my objective: Now that MVC (ASP.NET Model-View-Controller) 1.1 has been released (not sure how I missed that) to work with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 migrate my evolving website to use the .NET 4.0 beta. I was able to get…

  • LinkedIn and WordPress too

    And now there’s a nice application on LinkedIn that will pull the latest posts – 5 I think – into my LinkedIn profile. I hope that takes care of necessary social network integration for the moment.

  • Now trying to integrate Facebook and WordPress

    I think I have the Twitter piece done. Now I’m trying to use the WordBook plugin for WordPress to see if it can post to Facebook.

  • TweetSuite?

    Trying to integrate with Twitter using TweetSuite

  • Leveraging MVC ModelError Using Exceptions

    Headline: A very simple change to the DefaultModelBinder will allow you to use default validation capabilities in Microsoft’s MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework far more effectively. The Problem – Please show my model exceptions to the user! As Steven Sanderson stated in his book, you want to have the validation for your model in an MVC application…

  • SPF?

    Sun Protection Factor? That’s what most of us think of, but I’ve been experimenting with SPF – Sender Policy Framework. For more, visit: http://www.openspf.org/ I send e-mail from various web applications I maintain so I did not want to make my life hard. So… I took the easy way and left the defaults as they…

  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.8

    I hope all goes well. (Frankly 2.7.1 worked pretty nice before.) So far all is well.

  • Review of Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework

    A Review of Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework by Steven Sanderson, ISBN 10: 1-4302-1007-9 Update I started taking notes as I went along, but I’ve not stopped. I really recommend taking this book and working through the exercises. I’m confident you’ll be a better developer even if you’re are not particularly interested in MVC. (Of course,…