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CoffeeScript, Jasmine tests with Cassette and Mindscape Web Workbench Visual...
Wow that’s one hell of a title, I couldn’t make it any shorter, but that’s everything we’re dealing with in this post. Some Background We’ve got an ASP.NET MVC 4 web application and we’re using...
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Web Directions Code Melbourne 2012 – Day 1
I spent today (23rd May 2012) at Web Directions Code first time attendee of the Web Directions conferences, and this is the first Web Directions Code (at least in Australia or Melbourne). It was a...
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Web Directions Code Melbourne 2012 – Day 2
After a great 1st day at #WDC12. The small end-of-day-one-party was hosted at LaDiDa, with some booked dinners around Melbourne with some of the locals (which sadly I wasn’t able to attend). None the...
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Life should be a Picnic
Today I officially became part of a new Melbourne based software company called Picnic Software. We’re all about building high quality software here. Stay tuned for more exciting things I’ll now have a...
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Capturing client side JavaScript errors for later analysis
We’re getting close to pushing an application to a larger set of test users, and we’ll be interested in what happens when a larger variety of machine configurations (browsers and operating systems) and...
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Automating IIS actions with PowerShell – Create Multiple Sites
I’m working towards a more complex SignalR based post, but in the mean time part of the work on that involves setting up a few ASP.NET web apps. If you’re after a more comprehensive guide check out...
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Web Directions South – What Do You Know? Night in Melbourne
Last night Thursday 23rd August 2012, I went along the What Do You Know? event held at The Appartment a great little place I used to frequent when I was working on Exhibition Street. Earlier this year...
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How much to scratch your own itch as a Startup?
Let me first define the itch concept – the itch here on in will refer to how far to take of your own opinions and desires of how a piece of software should operate. So the question is from the title:...
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Queuing ajax calls to ASP.NET WebApi Controllers
Objective To halt processing of subsequent ajax calls after one causes an error. Why Any actions related to a similar set of data (or concept) will all go through the same queue. This way if something...
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Playing with AppHarbor, Twitter and WebAPI.
What? This sample application is very contrived, and came out of a throw away twitter account creation joke. Landing Page: usedguids.apphb.com Usage Info: gist.github.com/3964492 Service Features...
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When you need to generate and send templated emails, consider mailzor
Mailzor is a basic utility library to help generate and send emails using the Razor view engine to populate email templates, designed to be quickly pluggable into your .NET app. In our applications we...
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Tracking application errors with Raygun.io
A nice coincidence a few weeks was the news of Raygun going in to public beta crossing my radar. At the time we were fine tuning some things in an application that was in a private beta, we had put a...
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Cross subdomain ASP.NET Forms Authentication for local developement
I’ve had this issue twice now, and both times when I did my search I would end up this popular Stack Overflow question but adding an answer to a popular question that doesn’t directly* answer the...
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HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error with ASP.NET web on Windows 8 and...
I’m blogging this (again*) so next time I do a search I find my own post, it may also help you. I manage a few development VMs which I swear I have setup in the past correctly, but every so often I...
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Thinking in a document centric world with RavenDB @ ALT.NET
Last night (25th Feb 2014), I presented on RavenDB at ALT.NET Melbourne. I got some great feedback from the audience and was happy to share my experience so far with RavenDB. If you were there / watch...
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Using AutoMapper to help you map FSharpOption types
Why? Because your model is structured this way, and you have realised you need this, otherwise this doesn’t apply to you. Scenario When you get used to using AutoMapper to help you everywhere, you...
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Recovering a docker vm on Windows with Virtual Box
NOTE: this is more of a windows / virtual box problem but the boot2docker experience as will a lot of things is not great on Windows… yet. I was running the docker VM with 2 newly configured...
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F# Newbie
On the 5th of June* at work we decided to give F# a go and by ‘go’ I/we mean really use it in the most important parts of our application. Some of the team has had greater exposure to functional...
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The future of Alt.Net
Today Richard Banks asked us a question about the future of Alt.Net. I strongly agree with his conclusions, but wanted to get my thoughts down too and answer his questions. I’ve been part of the...
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RavenDB invalid HTTP Header characters bug
So you’ve done a search and you’ve arrived here, and you’re using RavenDB (at least version 2). In my case 2.5.2907, if this is fixed in 3.0 that’s good but not in our case we’re not ready to move to...
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