I just spent this morning upgrading the Yonkly code to work with the newly released ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 3.  I thought I would document what I did here, so that it might help others trying to upgrade their projects.  Note: I haven’t deployed the upgraded version to yonkly.com but released the source code.
Setup
Yonkly was […]

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I apologize for the delay of releasing the source code for Yonkly (the twitter clone). 
The code is still not 100% ready but I have received so many requests for the source code and figured it is better to put something online until I clean it up than wait until I reach perfection (a moving […]

Posted in Open Source, asp.net mvc, yonkly 18 Comments »
Tags: asp.net mvc, Open Source, source code, twitter clone, yonkly

I was recently working on a project where there was an option to export data from the database.  The export function simply exported 2 hard-coded columns that were returned by a stored procedure into a tab-delimited text file. 
The sproc looked something like select id, name from mytable (I am over simplifying of course).  I […]

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Tags: dynamic linq, LINQ, reflection, SQL

[update: Yonkly source code is now public]
We just released a new updated version younkly that is mostly bug fixes. We couldn’t get full twitter integration in place for this release, but Justine is working hard on it.
Fixed bugs

Updated code to use the latest MVC code refresh
Fixed bug with Gravatar image if email is in […]

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Tags: updates, yonkly

I don’t remember owning many pop-up books as a child, but they are so cool and the best part is that they don’t require much (if any) reading.  Here is one that is just plain cool.  I wish I was that creative to design something like that.  Yes, it is useless but simply put, it […]

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Tags: art, Books, cool, innovative, Interesting

Remember that XBOX/PS3 game you bought last week for 60 bucks?  Or the $100 you dropped at a bar tap a few weeks ago?  Well how about you donate some money to the unfolding catastrophe in Myanmar?
Here are ways to help:

Blog about it and spread the word - if each one of you blogs about […]

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Tags: charity, cyclone, myanmar, natural disaster

If you have been following along, I blogged previously about my experience trying Ruby on Rails as a .net developer (here and here).  I quickly realized how different things are and that I desperately need some help, so I got myself the beta PDF version of Agile Web Development with Rails and Rails Recipes.  Both […]

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Tags: rails, ror, ruby, ruby on rails