Emad Ibrahim

Ninject: Killer IoC

In my previous post, The Best IoC Container, I decided to go with StructureMap as the framework of choice.  I received a comment telling me to check out Ninject and then a day or two after, I saw Corey Gaudin’s post on using Ninject with MVC, so I decided to try it out. It wasn’t [...]

Yonkly: New Release 04-14-08

[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 [...]

CMAP Code Camp 2008 Spring Edition

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 cooperate. Thankfully, I [...]

Yonkly – Open Source Twitter

[update: Yonkly source code is now public] [update 2: I just created www.isweat.com using the yonkly engine] [update 3: Tons of new features] 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 [...]

Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

I am working on an asp.net mvc application and I wanted to make the user’s main page (profile) be www.domain.com/username.  This is a problem because the routing engine in MVC treats the first item after the domain as a controller.  Ofcourse I could do a {*catchall} and do my own parsing but why re-invent the [...]