Mister James on .NET
Removing Tracked Files After Adding A Rule to .gitignore
As I learn some of the workings of git in the normal flow of daily use, I struggled for a few minutes this afternoon trying to scrub a directory of DLLs that had been committed to a repo. These … more
Cloudy With a Chance of Mobile: Building Our Data Model & API
Interested in having a web site that supports user-specific data? Perfect, use Asp.Net and the built in membership providers. Want to put it in the cloud? Sweet, jump on the Azure bandwagon. Want to … more
Cloudy With a Chance of Mobile: Mvc Framework, Windows Azure and Windows Phone
Interested in having a web site that supports user-specific data? Perfect, use Asp.Net and the built in membership providers. Want to put it in the cloud? Sweet, jump on the Azure bandwagon. Want to … more
Visual Studio 2010 Crashing on Uncompiled MVC 4 Projects
I have come across an issue where in MVC 4 pilot project, while working in views, the IDE would crash fairly frequently. I am using Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 and we are using GitHub for our source … more
Sharing With Friends - Opening up IIS Express To Other Team Members
I'm developing an app with an Android-ian friend. When co-developing some of the features, we've found it critical to be able to easily access the development stream of the services, which I'm … more
Clearing out the Stresses - Inbox 0, Me 1
I made huge inroads into de-cluttering my digital desktop today. That’s right, baby. Nothing in the inbox! I went from 2985 messages down to 0. Outlook loves me, so does my phone client. And I … more
The Future of the Web on .NET Rocks!
I recently spoke at Prairie Dev Con West in Calgary, where I was pleased to be asked to join a panel on the very popular internet audio talk show developers know as .NET Rocks! Hosts Carl … more
Prairie Dev Con - Calgary Edition
Look at all those hard-working developers! Thanks to everyone who came out to my intro to MVC yesterday, and to the Dojo today. I had a great time in the 2.5 hour Dojo session building the app … more
Okay Developers, Time to Level Up: Visual Studio 11 and Windows 8
The bits are now in the wild. I've got Win8 on the download and VS11 installed already on my Win7 boot. I'll be wiping the Win8 partition and installing the Customer Preview of Win8 later … more
Continuous Communication: Bridging the Client and Server with SignalR
Have you ever tried to solve concurrency, or at least notification of concurrency threats? Have you worked out a way to keep data flowing between the client and the server? How about multiple … more