Tim’s Blog
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Asp.Net MVC Gotchas
I’ve been working on a project with the Asp.Net MVC framework lately, and thought I’d write up some lessons learned. I’m using Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 as a guide. The first chapter is available online for free as a pdf. One: Be absolutely certain you are avoiding web forms web controls. I took the master…
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Community and Interviewing
I’ve been sitting in on more interviews at work with my new role. I’m surprised by the lack of answers when I ask how developers keep up to date with technology, and where they seek answers. “Google”, many reply. “Books”. Maybe I’m asking too much, but here are some creative answers that would imply a…
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New Role
I’ve been promoted at work to what is currently being called “Manager of Development Methodology and Process”. It’s a great feeling, because I had been doing a lot of extra work in the department and this makes it more official. Also, rather than trying to push new technologies and initiatives, I have an easier time…
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Integrating Internet Services on Your Site (Or Mini-Cloud Web Sites)
Something I’ve been increasingly fascinated with over the last year is the reuse of free internet services that I have. On my site, I have widgets that feed the last 4 posts from this wordpress blog, and my twitter feed. I also have an ajax live bing search box that will return results from my…
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ASP.Net Comments
Here’s a strange one I’ve never run into. I was recently helping a developer figure out why some controls were not binding and showing on the page. I noticed they were using html style comments in their page around some controls instead of .net style comments. This was the problem. Server side code still runs,…
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