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NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks...
I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse, an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've...
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CoffeeScript, Sass and LESS support for Visual Studio and ASP.NET with the...
There's some really impressive stuff happening in the .NET Community lately. Folks are reaching outside their standard built-in tools and pulling inspiration from everywhere. It's been said that (some)...
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A Social Media Brand Primer: Managing your (personal) brand with Twitter,...
I was speaking with a friend recently who manages social media for a large company you've heard of who is really just making a hard push into online social media. I put together a list of questions,...
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Unix Fight! - Sed, Grep, Awk, Cut and Pulling Groups out of a PowerShell...
There's a wonderful old programmers joke I've told for years: "You've got a problem, and you've decided to use regular expressions to solve it. Ok, now you've got two problems..." A friend of mine was...
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Making awesome Wedding documents using OpenType Ligatures and Stylistic Sets...
My brother-in-law is getting married in a few weeks and since I'm the default IT guy for the family, I'm making CDs with CD-TEXT for the guests amongst other things. One of those other things is doing...
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Review: Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7
First, a disclaimer. I work for Microsoft on the Web Platform team. That said, I don't know anyone in hardware. My opinions are my own. I don't have any vested interest in this mouse and I paid for it...
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Hackers can kill Diabetics with Insulin Pumps from a half mile away - Um, no....
UPDATE: Jay Radcliffe, the researcher discussed in this post, has emailed me, a little upset. In the interest of transparency I've included our email thread at the end of this post so that Jay's...
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Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release - Now on NuGet
Say what you will about the Ajax Control Toolkit. Some like it, some don't, but it got 1.15 MILLION downloads last year. Is the ACT dead? Not yet, and there's ongoing work around WebForms, jQuery and...
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NuGet Support for Visual Studio 2008
Well, not really. A better title would be "How to Cobble Together NuGet Support for Visual Studio 2008 with External Tools and a Prayer." The point is, there are lots of folks using Visual Studio 2008...
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Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."
Welcome Hacker News, Slashdot, DF and TechMeme. Be sure to read the follow up post on "What Good Fraud Detection Looks Like." So Apple is America's most valuable company. They are, like everyone else,...
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A suggested improved customer interaction with the Apple Store (and Cloud...
Alternative Title: "What good fraud detection looks like" My recent 'screed' called "Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled" got a number of people talking. Yes, Gruber's DF called it...
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I'm a phony. Are you?
pho·ny also pho·ney (fō'nē) adj. pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est 1. a. Not genuine or real; counterfeit: a phony credit card. b. False; spurious: a phony name. 2. Not honest or truthful; deceptive: a phony...
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Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined...
Browser version numbers continue to march on. IE9 is here, IE10 is coming, Firefox 5 and 6 are here with 7 and 8 in the wings, Opera's on 11, and Chrome is on, I dunno, somewhere between 14 and 50....
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Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy
I got a haircut today. And I hired a designer to redo my blog theme. Both of these things put a pep in my step. I feel SO much better now. I hear that there's supposed to be some kind of unicorn out...
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The Technical Friend's Essential Maintenance Checklist for Non-Technical...
I visited a friend today and noticed their computer. Of course I did, that's what we do. It was, as are all non-technical computer friends' computers, a 3 year old gray Dell mini tower with a 17" flat...
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Learning about Progressive Enhancement - Supporting Mobile Browsers with CSS3...
I blogged about how happy I've been working with designer Jeremy Kratz on my recent site redesign. We've been meeting lately about small improvements and tweaks. One of the core goals was to support...
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Hanselminutes Podcast Episode Rollup 273 through 280 - Glimpse, JavaScript,...
It's happened again, I've gotten behind on my Podcast posts and rather than flooding you with copy-pastes, I figured I'd do a rollup post. It's a shame because, if I may say so, I think it's been a...
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NerdDinner being updated to MVC3 with Razor, HTML5, GeoLocation, EF...
Two years ago Rob, Phil, and I released our MVC 1.0 book with the Gu helping with the big intro. I created the basic Nerd Dinner sample application (code here) and released the first 185 pages for...
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Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows - Are you mad?
Some folks on our team have been working on making node.js work awesomely on Windows. There's a few questions you might have. First, what's node.js? If you're not familiar with node.js, it's a new web...
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Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running...
I've been spending some time exploring asynchrony and scale recently. You may have seen my post about my explorations with node.js and iisnode running node on Windows. Every application has different...
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