I just got into the Live Mesh beta program and have 5 invitations; so why not share the love. Please leave a comment below and I will invite you.
I haven’t played with it yet because it wants me to turn User Access Control (UAC) before I can install it - which SUCKS. I […]

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Ok, so I thought the whole scaffolding thing was so easy and I would be done in a few minutes. I was so wrong. Nothing seemed to work right. I would call ruby script/generate scaffold Tag and it will generate all the files but the views were empty. Hmm… This is exactly what has been […]

Posted in C#, Programming, Software Development 4 Comments »
Tags: C#, ror, ruby, ruby on rails, syntax

Looking at my blog or resume, you will immediately know that I am a .net developer and my entire programming career has been Microsoft-centric.  I have been wanting to play with Ruby on Rails due to its inescapable popularity and I was actually surprised to learn that the language itself (Ruby) was developed in the […]

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Tags: favewares, rails, ror, ruby

Personally, I am a huge fan of Microsoft but it has been very frustrating lately seeing all the “cool” stuff coming from Google and Apple.  So I got really excited when I heard about Live Mesh from Microsoft and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.  I am tired of running Groove to […]

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Tags: live mesh, microsoft, software+services, synchronize machines., web services

IOC?:MOC(MQ):TDD(MS):SCC(Svn):SCC(Lame):ORM(SS):ORM(L2S):ORM(L2E):XPP(+):DDD(!?):JSL(Jq):GoF(Sn)
 
If you are wondering what the above code is, read this.
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Tags: alt.net, altnetcode

Here is a quick method to shorten URLs using the TinyUrl API in .net - C# and VB
C#

public static string MakeTinyUrl(string Url)
{
try
{
if (Url.Length <= 30)
{
return Url;
}
if (!Url.ToLower().StartsWith(“http”) && !Url.ToLower().StartsWith(“ftp”))
{
Url = “http://” + Url;
}
var request = WebRequest.Create(“http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=” + Url);
var res = request.GetResponse();
string text;
using (var reader = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream()))
{
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
return text;
}
catch (Exception)
{
return Url;
}
}

VB

Public Shared Function MakeTinyUrl(ByVal […]

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Tags: Programming, snippets, tinyurl

[update: Yonkly source code is now public]
I just released an updated version of Yonkly.
Here is a list of changes, additions and improvements:

Fixed email issues
Added About section under the avatar
Using TinyUrl for Url shortening.
Added profile Url under the avatar (so add your blog/website to your profile)

Added more stats and each one is linked to the appropriate […]

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Tags: asp.net, mvc, Open Source, yonkly

Outlook 2007 is by far the best integrated solution for organizing your life.  You can drag an email to the calendar and voila you got an appointment linked to the email message.  You can flag an email and it becomes a task/to-do item.  You can categorize/tag emails, tasks, appointments and contacts.  Everything just works.  The […]

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Tags: Open Source, outlook, remember the milk, rtm, sync, utilities

Yesterday, I gave a talk at CMAP Code Camp about the asp.net mvc framework and AJAX using JQuery. This is my first time speaking, so I was a little nervous. I think I did ok but I can’t really tell. Of course, the talk didn’t go as planned, because Visual Studio didn’t […]

Posted in AJAX, asp.net, asp.net mvc 2 Comments »
Tags: AJAX, asp.net, cmap, codecamp, jquery, mvc, talks

[update: Yonkly source code is now public]
Asp.net MVC framework rocks. I wanted to play with it more and decided why not build an open source twitter. Unfortunately, I couldn’t come up with a better name for it that had an available domain so Yonkly it is. Come to think of it Yonkly […]

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Tags: asp.net, mvc, projects, yonkly