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Coding for Charity 26 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
I’m definitely getting away with something here. I code for fun. (I also code for work; it’s a good life.) On any given weekend, I’m likely to be developing software, pushing on some new technology, p...
AutoMapper 3.0 released 26 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
AutoMapper had Silverlight 4 support a while back, but it was a huge pain to keep up. In this release, I converted AutoMapper to a Portable Class Library, with supported platforms: .NET 4 and higher S...
Realtime User Interface Design 20 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
By Brad Carleton This is the third installment in a series on Building Realtime HTML5 Apps. Most of the thoughts and ideas from these articles stem from my experience building bone.io, a realtime java...
SignalLeaf: Hacking A Podcast Audio Service Together 20 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
Yesterday (August 19th) was _whyDay – a day for hacking on new things, learning, and generally doing awesome things that you normally wouldn’t do for whatever reason. I’ve known about _whyDay for a fe...
Austin Code Camp 2013 18 Aug 2013 | 08:02 am
At today’s Austin Code Camp, I gave a talk titled, “Fixie: a Test Framework for the Discerning Control Freak”. It covered the motivation behind Fixie as well as a series of customization examples. All...
Climbing the green mountain 15 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
How to defeat the evil green mountain what is the green mountain? A picture is worth a thousand words. The green mountain is the response time graph from huboard. From time to time the GitHub api hang...
Pin 13 Considered Harmful 14 Aug 2013 | 08:20 am
The scariest thing about teaching is the risk of being wrong. Maybe you can relate? Written some blog posts, given a few talks, published an article, and then found out your spiel contained a piece of...
Single Page Apps & Realtime, a Love Story 13 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
This is the second in a series of articles on Building Realtime HTML5 Apps. In the first article, we looked at the difference between Websockets and AJAX as transport mechanisms for data. In this arti...
Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building tags 13 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
In order to provide conventional HTML, you have to build on a solid foundation. Because most of the time I want to tweak my rules in C#, it’s important that I’m able to tweak the output of HTML progra...
Inject Add-Ons And Plugins With RequireJS, Non-AMD Libraries And Shims 9 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
I’m using a few libraries that don’t have official support for AMD, in my current project with RequireJS. No problem – just shim the library in, and it’s good to go. Some of these libraries also need ...
