Posts by: Max

MongoDB presentations

On February 17, 2012 By

If you’re working with MongoDB, are playing with the idea of using MongoDB, or you’re just interested in learning about NoSQL in the real world you should check out the presentations on 10gen’s (the company behind MongoDB) website: http://www.10gen.com/presentations.

I watched the presentation by Jeremy Zawodny of Craigslist about their lessons learned from migrating [...]

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Competition Works

On January 28, 2012 By

I was just reading a blog post from Adam Caudill and it got me thinking about Ruby on Rails has done for web developers using the Microsoft stack. The first web MVC framework that I used was ASP.Net MVC and I loved it. I used it from the day it came out and [...]

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I’ve often thought to myself, why don’t we run our family/personal lives more like a business? We have income like a business, expenses like a business, and a family is run by a group of people just like a business. Surely some of the practices that businesses implement to make it manageable would be useful [...]

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Note: My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6510 running Windows 7 64 bit.  

I usually do not have any issues when installing Windows Updates, but this last time it severely crippled my networking capabilities. As soon as I installed the latest updates and restarted my computer, my wireless card was gone. It wasn’t in [...]

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Today I tried picking up on a project I started a while back in Adobe AIR. I quickly ran into an issue when trying to run it with ADL (the Adobe Debug Launcher). It didn’t matter what I tried, whenever I would run ADL, I would get an error saying [...]

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My company, Gray Hills Software, has just published the .Net Campfire API that I wrote. This library was written during the development of FlameCage, our soon to be released Campfire client.

We’ve created a NuGet package and uploaded it to the NuGet Gallery so you should be able to search [...]

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Domain service extension method

On January 31, 2011 By

This little extension method is something I wrote to help cleanup domain context code… just thought I would share:

Enjoy!

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T4MVC and absolute URLs

On January 21, 2011 By

I’ve been using T4MVC for quite some time now, but I’ve just discovered a wonderful feature: the ability to generate absolute URLs using the standard T4MVC strongly typed helpers. It’s extremely simple, compared to doing it the manual way. If you have a controller named AccountController with an action called Login, the following line [...]

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I was working on a Silverlight 4 project with a coworker a few days ago and needed to display a list of objects with different editors based on the type of object. The first thing that came to my mind was to use a DataTemplateSelector. I found out quickly that the Silverlight team – [...]

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