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Setting Up Ember CLI with Emblem and CoffeeScript

I’ve been using Ember CLI for various projects. Two things that I like to do right out of the gate is to enable CoffeeScript (instead of JavaScript) and Emblem JS (instead of Handlebars templates). Both of these tasks are pretty easy thanks to Broccoli. Start by creating a new

Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Mini Review

I figured I haven’t done a product review in a long time, so here we go! I’m lucky enough to own both an iPad and iPad Mini. At times the Mini is more convenient, and I like using a real keyboard, so I decided to try the Logitech

The "Ultra Intuitive" WCF Test Client

The "Ultra Intuitive" WCF Test Client

Did you know that Visual Studio includes a WCF Test Client? No? It’s very useful for testing out various services, especially SOAP ones. RESTful services are much easier to test as you just need a browser, but SOAP requires some sort of client. Browse to the following path (note,

My RubyGem Release Workflow

My RubyGem Release Workflow

When going through and doing a release for ruby_odata, I had a workflow problem that resulted in extra, unneeded, work. I originally posed the question going on three years ago now (wow). You’d think I would remember the solution, but I find that I keep looking for my

Lights, Camera, ActionBlock!

The TPL Dataflow library available from the NuGet Package Manager is a great way to manage in memory asynchronous data processing. It’s especially useful in producer/consumer situations because it greatly simplifies the amount of ceremonious code required to manage and synchronize multiple asynchronous processes happening in parallel. Last

You Have Chosen Poorly - MaxLength vs StringLength

You Have Chosen Poorly - MaxLength vs StringLength

Are you using Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC along with client side validations? Are you trying to restrict the length of a string only to find that you client side validation isn’t working? Me too, and there is a solution! MaxLength Attribute In a recent project, we are

SSMS and the IntelliSense Red Squiggle Mess

SSMS and the IntelliSense Red Squiggle Mess

Have you ever been writing a bunch of SQL code in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), only to have the query editor put a red, squiggly line underneath a table, column, view, procedure or any other object that you know exists? Of course, that red, squiggly line means that IntelliSense

Visual Studio Extensions Update Hell

This post is a rant about the Visual Studio Extension update process. It’s one of those things that I think we all get annoyed with, right? Well, maybe it’s just me. Anyway, let’s look at how the Extension update experience in Visual Studio can be fixed. Let

Windows Search Doesn't Like Android File Import

Windows Search Doesn't Like Android File Import

Have you ever remembered an important file on a mobile device, such as your smartphone, that you forgot to backup? Have you then gone looking for that file only to find that it doesn’t exist in the location you expected it to be? If so, I am guessing this

New Blog Author Says "Hello World"

Hi there! Je m’appelle… I mean… My name is Mark, (“Hi Mark,” says the crowd). I am a professional software developer specializing in web applications, but who isn’t these days, right? Damien has been bugging me to start blogging my experiences for a while now. I finally gave

ASP.NET HTTP DELETE 404 Error Fun

In a previous post, I discussed using the Restful Routing NuGet package with ASP.NET MVC. Well, I use it all the time when working with ASP.NET MVC. I started a new project the other day and found that the Destroy actions (which use the HTTP verb DELETE) were

PSA: Don't Trust Autocomplete

PSA: Don't Trust Autocomplete

Here’s a little tip that we developers all should know. This post is a little about the Kendo UI Grid, a bit about ASP.NET MVC, but more about “common sense.” So let’s get started… Kendo UI Grid I’m using Kendo UI’s grid for a few

Dude, Where's My DLL Config?

I write a lot of reusable components. Most recently, I created an assembly to handle notifications in various projects. For this assembly, I needed various configuration options, such as an SMTP server address. For configuration in .NET projects, we turn to App.config files, and in ASP.NET projects, we

One Off Overrides of ajaxStart

As I’m sure you guessed from earlier posts, I’m using BlockUI in an MVC application. I have various calls using jQuery’s $.ajax method throughout my application. For the majority, I want to show a “Please Wait” message, and BlockUI makes this simple. Since most of my calls

RubyMotion and Lowercase Obj-C Libraries

RubyMotion and Lowercase Obj-C Libraries

I was playing around with RubyMotion and the Objective-C iHasApp library. Given that it’s just three files that are needed (a .m, a .h, and a JSON data file) I’d figured I’d have it working in no time. I was wrong. iHasApp: Undefined My first attempt involved

Kendo UI NumericTextBox With jQuery Validation

Previously we discussed Kendo UI and the problems with jQuery validation relating to the Kendo UI Editor. Well, I discovered another control that exhibits the same problems, the Kendo UI NumericTextBox. I didn’t think that this control would have the same problem as the Kendo UI Editor, after all,

BlockUI Blocking More Than UI

Today I encountered a problem with jQuery.BlockUI and I’m hoping to alleviate someone else from having to deal with the grief that I experienced. With a demo coming up in a few days, we were attempting to publish an ASP.NET MVC app to our test environment for

Watt Time Is It?

Watt Time Is It?

Watt time is it? No, that’s not a typo! I’m happy to announce that Visoft, Inc. has released our first iOS application, WattTimeIsIt. WattTimeIsIt is a simple application that allows you to figure out the time needed to cook something in the microwave based on the wattage. Take

Hooking Into Entity Framework With EFHooks

Hooking Into Entity Framework With EFHooks

Coming from working with Rails, there are things that I miss when using .NET (as exhibited by my last post). Today I’m going to tell you about a way to bring a bit of Active Record to Entity Framework. When using Active Record, you can hook into the process

Bring Rails to ASP.NET MVC With Restful Routing

Bring Rails to ASP.NET MVC With Restful Routing

When I’m working with ASP.NET MVC, I find myself wanting to do things “the Rails way.” There are a lot of excellent conceptions/conventions in Rails where I think ASP.NET MVC could really learn something. One thing I really dislike about ASP.NET MVC is the way

We Love Books!

We Love Books And We Know You Do As Well… As you may or may not know, Visoft has quietly released websites for book lovers. Back in 2010, I fell in love with Ruby on Rails. The first Rails application that I worked on was one to help me keep

Streaming Large Files Asynchronously using .NET 4.5

Recently I had a project that required me to be able to transfer large files via a service call to a remote server where the file would be ingested by an always-on application for further processing. When thinking about the requirements for such a service, a few things came to

Kendo UI Upload Control With Existing Files

If you hadn’t guessed by my last two posts, I’ve been using Telerik’s Kendo UI controls for a project I’m working on. Today we’re going to talk about the Kendo UI Upload control, which I have been using in asynchronous mode. As I’ve stated

Telerik Kendo UI MVC Extensions and Icky HTML

I like clean code. Remember the days of obtrusive JavaScript? <a href="#" onclick="alert('You clicked!')">Click Me!</a> Yuck. Move that click event to a handler attached via JavaScript and that makes for much nicer HTML. There are other

Making the Kendo UI Editor Work With jQuery Validations

An easy way to make an HTML TextArea more flexible is to use the Kendo UI Editor from Telerik. In addition, you can easily use Kendo UI within your MVC project thanks to their ASP.NET MVC wrappers that they provide for their tools. I’m not a huge fan