Recently Stuart Leeks and I have developed a worrying pattern of having the same ideas at the same time. I’m starting to doubt we’re different people. Except he’s about a foot taller so maybe that’s aspirational from my side. ...

My colleague Simon Ince and I recently discovered that we had been working on the same problem independently so we combined our efforts and have written a joint blog post on our team blog . The problem was something that I’d encountered in a...

Recently Simon Ince and Stuart Leeks independently started working on solving the same challenge in ASP.NET MVC. Once we realised this we combined our efforts and this blog post is the result. We’ll walk through our approach - and hope you’ll...

Source Code Recently I worked with a customer assisting them in implementing their Web APIs using the new ASP.NET Web API framework. Their API would be public so obviously security came up as the key concern to address. Claims-Based-Security is widely...

I recently blogged about how to enable autocompletion of a text field using jQuery UI , and how to easily hook this behaviour up in ASP.NET MVC . In this post I’ll go a step further and show how to hook this behaviour up even if you are using Html...

If you get me started talking about ASP.NET MVC then it is quite possible that I’ll end up talking about Progressive Enhancement or Unobtrusive JavaScript . Aside from the usability and performance benefits that these techniques can bring, I find...

The Windows Azure platform is a solid, highly available, highly scalable environment - but, like any system (on premise or in the cloud) there are risks which could threaten the desired operation of your app (what I refer to herein as the 'normal scenario...

Date : 3 rd & 4 th April 2012 Location : Thames Valley Park, Reading Since ASP.NET MVC was released many of our customers have been considering or are already adopting it for their new applications. It builds on your .NET skills whilst using...

I recently had cause to look into running dynamic SQL on WP7 for a customer. On a desktop this is easy, you just run some SQL statements through ADO.NET and you’re sorted. On Windows Phone 7 it’s a little trickier. This is because WP7 only...

Umbraco is a fairly mature CMS system and recently I was engaged in an assignment to deploy Umbraco CMS to Windows Azure. In this post, I’ll share some of my learning’s. Umbraco accelerator (I call it bootstrapper) works well for small...