There is a great post from Scott Hanselman regarding node iis. It is the implementation of node on iis. Node is basically a serverside javascript. It is very interesting to me how this could be used. I wonder if the performance of this would allow you to skip the overhead of a .net page load, similar to a handler. Here …
I’m in the middle of writing a Windows Phone 7 application. It is part experiment and part project that I’ve wanted to do for a while. In doing the development I have found a few difficult things in developing for WP7. The application I’m writing requires the use of the network adaptor and also some mapping. So far the available information for the …
The current application I’m working on requires me to publish an MVC 3 Razor web application. I’m using sFTP as the protocol to my hosting provider. After the first publish I was unable to run the application. It kept throwing errors that I was missing assemblies. The first error I got was that the application was missing the Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll. I …
I am really starting to like MVC 3 razor. I’m continually reminded of old school ASP coding. Even some situations where you wrote in <br> <hr> and other html tags into your business layer. In the current application I’m working on I’m calling a system call and returning it as a string vs an object. The reason is that …
I’m in the middle of writing a Windows Phone 7 application. In the JSON call and collection I’m using. I wanted to use a datacontract. For a bit I could not get my class to recognize [DataContract] and [DataMember] . I even had a direct reference in the class : using System.Runtime.Serialization; I’m not sure of the reason but after troubleshooting it for a …
I’ve been really happy with the nuget platform for adding packages to VisualStudio. If you have not yet tried nuget head on over to nuget.org. One of the more recent packages I’ve been using is the mini-profiler. It is a little plug-in (can’t think of another term) that allows you profile a page and elements that are executed. Here is the …
Vista and Windows 7 did not come with an SMTP server installed. They removed this feature after smtp was found to be somewhat vulnerable on XP, and running on way too many developer PC’s. I’ve been using papercut as a local smtp server when I am developing an application that has to send mail. Papercut allows you to capture the …
I have been working on a windows 7 phone application. I know, many of you may give me a hard time about developing for winphone7 vs iPhone or android. Well, I’m working on getting to each of them eventually. Currently Phone 7 made sense. So far development has been pretty straight forward. I was adding an application bar to the bottom …
How do you tell if an app has been compiled in 32bit, 64bit or any cpu. There is a great little tools called corflags. Corflags is built into visual studio. You can open a visual studio command prompt to run this tools. I created a vs2010 solution with 3 projects, the project were compiled with the above 3 options. Here is …
I find myself in a command prompt in windows a lot. I enjoy using it. From simple items like getting an ip address or copying files (robocopy) I use it a lot. More recently I have been in powershell a lot more. Powershell uses most of the same tricks as the command prompt. I have used these tips and tricks …
I am currently at microsoft techEd in Atlanta. Microsoft has some great things going on. Any time you put 10000 geeks together you see a lot of tech. The main take away I found was that the iPad has won. I see as many iPads as I do laptops. That is interesting especially at a Microsoft conference. This simple observation tells …
In light of the recent events where Gmail lost some users mail. I thought it is appropriate that I post the method I use to back mail. Not only is this method useful for gmail but also google apps or any other mail system that can use IMAP or POP. To make sure that everything is safe I use Thunderbird. Thunderbird …
I recently setup my new laptop and wanted to test the network connection. I have had some issues with the speed and performance on wireless with the new T410. My home network has both a G wireless and N wireless network available. I have been seeing poor performance on the new thinkpad, while the old T61 would get almost twice the …
I am frequently creating Visio diagrams to use for software development or web applications. I typically use the built in elements and icons. Recently I have found it difficult to find some items that I would like to have in my designs. The great team and group over at OSA (www.opensecurityarchitecture.org) have many tools to both help with designs but …
I’ve been doing some research on QR codes (the funny looking squares you see in magazines and Sunday advertisements). QR codes are “Quick Reference” barcodes that can contain a lot of information. They started to become popular in Japan and have recently been showing up more and more in media and at stores. There are a few great QR code generators …