I recently read Ian Cooper's blog regarding the current state of Alt.net. There has (in my opinion at least) been a growing sense of disillusionment within the alt.net community of late and Ian has given some good arguments for some of the most common complaints. I completely agree with him on the points he made, Alt.net was and still remains to be an incredibly important part of the .net community. The principles that David Laribee laid out have had a massive impact on the .net landscape; use of alternative languages is common place (Rake seems thankfully to be replacing NAnt), everyone knows how much money and time TDD will save (i've got a little bit of ...
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FluentIoC 0.1 Released!
% A major problem I've found at huddle was what a pain in the arse configuring IoC using xml is! So instead of moaning about it I decided to write ...New blog
• Now that i'm not a student anymore I've decided that I can actually afford the £3.41/month to host my own blog so I'm moving from my old blog to ...ASP.NET Calender Validation
• Today I need to validate that a user had entered a date in an asp.net calender only to find that there were no solutions for it so for future reference, ...Exams Results
• Just found out I got a 1st for my degree as well as the Sulivan Award for best project for the year!
Muney: Organizing a students finances
2 This is the first of a series of articles about my dissertation, a personal financial management application for students. The first task was to organize a users finances by importing ...
Muney: Financial Management for Students
• Over the past year, I have spent quite a long time on my dissertation. I’m pretty proud of it and I have had quite a few positive comments from various ...
Subsonic like NHibernate Query Generator button in Visual Studio
3 One thing I love about SubSonic, in fact the reason i switched, was how awsome the querying is. I don't know why but something like new UserCollection().Where("UserID", id).Where("Password", password) just ...Monorail: Get client's browser
• For future reference, to get the clients browser: $Context.UnderlyingContext.Request.Browser.Browser This is infact accessing the HttpRequest.Browser property so you can then get all the usual info like browser version: $Context.UnderlyingContext.Request.Browser.MajorVersion Hope this ...