Emad Ibrahim

“I Quit” 1 Year Anniversary

It has been a year since I quit my job and decided to go independent.  I didn’t know what I was going to do, the economic outlook wasn’t good, I had two rental properties and a condo that I didn’t know how I was going to pay for.  I was armed with only hope, ambition, [...]

Yonkly Source Code For Sale

You can now buy the best twitter-clone software out there complete with full source code for your customization pleasures. Buy it now at http://yonkly.com/buy Includes Flexible license – deploy up to 2 domains and 10 sub-domains Make any changes you want Community support through forums No copyright required One time payment Advanced control panel Groups Picture sharing Sidebar widgets Run [...]

Themes and ASP.NET MVC

I wanted to easily add theme support to yonkly, so that others can install it and modify its look and feel as they please.  I also wanted it to be as easy as installing a theme in wordpress. I created a themes folder under the content folder Then I referenced my css file in the master [...]

Client & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC

[Update: The code is open-sourced at http://code.google.com/p/mvcvalidation/] The asp.net mvc codeplex preview 5 version just came out a few days ago and it includes a lot nice enhancements.  For the best introduction read Scott’s post.  Some of my favorite changes happened in validation.  Incidentally, I was already working on a post to talk about doing client [...]

Deciding Between ASP.NET MVC and WebForms

I am trying to create a decision flowchart for my ASP.NET MVC book and wanted to get some community feedback.  Does this diagram make sense?  What other factors should one consider that should make it into the chart? Things to Note I have tried to use the general consensus of the community for each decision.  For [...]