Category Archives: Coding

Guide for migrating an ASP.NET MVC Solution to .NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4

Posted by on 20 August, 2012 No comments | Views: 5,238

You can find a very handy step by step guide for migrating to ASP.NET MVC 4 here . It might seem a bit long, but actually with a few multi-file search and replace and some regex you can do it pretty …

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Windows 8 Code Weekend: 8-9th September in London – dev4good

Posted by on 17 August, 2012 No comments | Views: 106

TheGivingLab.Org We’re running a second dev4good event in collaboration with TheGivingLab.org and Givey this year to bring together talented thinkers, designers and coders from around the UK to work on some real-world issues faced by UK charities. The technology theme …

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Heads up on a hidden breaking change in ASP.NET MVC 4

Posted by on 17 August, 2012 1 comment | Views: 1,726

If you, like me, are using an Editor Template for DateTime and use the DataTypeAttribute with either or DataType.Date and DataType.DateTime in ASP.NET MVC 2 or 3 and happen to upgrade to ASP.NET MVC 4 be aware! ASP.NET MVC 4 …

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dev4good – Developing for a Better World

Posted by on 4 July, 2011 1 comment | Views: 381

Last weekend (2-3 July) I attended the first ever dev4good – a charity hackathon where developers try to solve charity problems in a weekend. It took place in Hammersmith, London in a amazing venue on the riverside: Three charities came …

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Featured on the home page of ASP.NET

Posted by on 3 July, 2011 1 comment | Views: 381

Really exciting for me is that a few days ago my series on Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC got featured on the home page of the ASP.NET web site. I just wanted to say thank you to …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 3: Knockout JS

Posted by on 29 June, 2011 15 comments | Views: 5,987

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the problems that we face when implementing an editor for a variable length, reorderable collection and reuse our server-side ASP.NET MVC views, model binding and validation. In Part 2 of this series …

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Custom Knockout JS binding for jQuery UI Sortable

Posted by on 27 June, 2011 2 comments | Views: 2,007

For the work in progress Part 3 of my Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC blog series I have created a custom Knockout JS binding that keeps a Knockout JS observable array in sync with a jQuery UI …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 2: jQuery Templates

Posted by on 20 June, 2011 6 comments | Views: 5,063

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the problems that we face when implementing an editor for a variable length, reorderable collection and reuse our server-side ASP.NET MVC views, model binding and validation. And while the solution provided in Part …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 1: ASP.NET MVC Views

Posted by on 16 June, 2011 39 comments | Views: 18,539

Introduction I have decided to write a short series of blog posts on editing collections and more specifically variable length collections in ASP.NET MVC. I will take two different implementation approaches: In Part 1 I look at implementing collection editing …

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Java BDD with JBehave and Watij in Eclipse with JUnit

Posted by on 25 May, 2011 8 comments | Views: 7,987

The purpose of this post is to explain how to write BDD acceptance tests in Java using the gherkin syntax, run those with JUnit and implement them using Web Browser automation. Before I begin let me assure you that I …

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