Blogs

I am a big fan of the things added to WCF 4.0. One of those things is the deep integration with ASP.NET routes. Today, I was writing a service in WF and hosting the workflow with WCF. I really didn’t like the service URL—yeah, I’m a picky developer who...

In the world of the web, we have lots of security concerns. One of the concerns lies with cross site scripting, XSS. From a high level, XSS is any occasion where data is sent from code on a page from one site to another site. The code is usually via JavaScript...

That’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for quite a long time, yet I never got around to really doing it. Now, here it is – my Visual Studio color theme and it looks like this: The theme works with Visual Studio 2010 and requires Resharper...

There’s been some buzz lately about the nu project that uses ruby gems infrastructure to let you quickly and easily grab latest version of common (and not so common) open source libraries without having to go and hunt for them. All you need to do, is...

When building WP7 applications there may be times where you want to trap the Back Button action in order to perform your own custom action.  For example if you are editing some values and a user has not saved the data and presses the back button...

One of the built in UI elements for WP7 is the Application Bar.  This is a bar that allows you to put buttons or menu items on in order to allow your user to interact with your application.  The major downside to the Application Bar is that...

When you encounter a bug, do you first write a failing test before fixing it? You should. But the vast majority of us sometimes do not. External pressure (read Customer, Teammates or Management) moves us in the opposite direction. Everything we’ve...

Dru and I were recently featured on Herding Code Podcast. In the podcast we talk about everything from package management in general to Nubular (Nu) to other package management systems ( OpenWrap , Bricks , and Horn , although horn was/is slightly different...