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Category Archives: development

Console2

30-Aug-10

I’m a little late to the game on this, as usual, but Console2 (or Console) is an excellent replacement for the stock cmd.exe console on Windows. I use it on a daily basis at work and home and recently started customizing the settings a bit so it now covers me for Git (msysgit), Visual Studio [...]

Windows Phone 7 development

18-Mar-10

So, the WinPhone7 development tools "preview" (or whatever its called) was released earlier this week. I'm, personally, pretty excited. Silverlight development is something I've been wanting to do more of and I'm an absolute nerd when it comes to gadgets. I was an early smartphone adopter going back to the WindowsCE/Mobile days, then a PalmOS [...]

Getting organized with source control and project management

15-Mar-10

After a dozen years in various development teams, I finally decided to re-evaluate my current development team and the way we handle our work. I describe how it started, what I have done so far, and what is next.

ELMAH = awesome

02-Dec-09

So, I'm a bit late to the game on this. But ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is awesome. Basically just drop the dll in your bin folder on your project and adjust your web.config. It handles your error handling and logging automatically. Very slick. I got it in place today on a couple apps [...]

jQuery autocomplete plugin with ASMX web service and JSON

04-Nov-09

I’m trying to find more reasons to switch a lot of my js/ajax ui over to jQuery recently. This is due to my excursions into Rails and Sinatra outside of work, and also because I feel like some of the MS Ajax Toolkit extenders seem to be bloated at times. I also figure that since [...]