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  • What .NET Library Features do you use?

    Published on 15 Oct 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Scott Hanselman posted a survey (one little question) on what features do you use in the .NET framework: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SurveyTimeWhatNETFrameworkFeaturesDoYouUse.aspx If you havn’t already taken this quiz on Scott’s site, it is an easy one question quiz that will help out Read full article

  • Add Your Twitter Status To Your Blog

    Published on 11 Oct 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    For the longest time I have been wanting to add my Twitter status to my blog in place of my quote right under my blogs name in the header. (see above) Today I sat down and figured out what I needed to do to accomplish this and to my surprise it only took all of [...] Read full article

  • jQuery and Visual Studio Shipping Together

    Published on 28 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been a huge fan of jQuery ever since I started working on IdeaPipe about 10 months ago. Mostly because of its simplistic DOM access using standard CSS syntax that we all have to learn anyways in the modern Web 2.0 world. In addition to the ease of finding elements on your [...] Read full article

  • How NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements

    Published on 24 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I wanted to improve the read times because our new Facebook Application was being launched and I anticipated an increase in our traffic to the serv Read full article

  • My Philly.NET Presentation

    Published on 17 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    This is very basic presentation on how Web 2.0 and MVC can work together. The actual source code for this presentation is located at: http://www.codeplex.com/buggd Read full article

  • The Second Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad

    Published on 12 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Many people have said they don’t get these ad’s, but personally I like them. Read full article

  • Philly .NET User Group Meeting for September 2008

    Published on 11 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I will be presenting September 17, 2008 at Philly .NET User Group Meeting. My talk will be on: Creating a modern, web 2.0, application with MVC and jQuery with a focus on doing this in a RESTful manor. My goal is for the developers in attendance to learn how to create a RESTful website design using Read full article

  • iTunes 8.0 Released

    Published on 09 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    LifeHacker has a first look at iTunes 8.0. As of right now iTunes can be downloaded from Apple, but not through Apple Update yet. Doesn’t look as revolutionary as many people have been saying but it seems to be a logical update for Apple. I will update in a little bit if [...] Read full article

  • The First Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad

    Published on 05 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    This is pretty funny. It seems to be a story building commercial, for a future release. Possible Windows 7. Read full article

  • Google Chrome, The New Kid On The Block

    Published on 02 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    So when Google announced they had a new browser that was going to break down all the barriers of the internet and the desktop I got excited at the prospects of what they were going to do and what this new user interaction would be. Well today they finally announced the release of the [...] Read full article

  • ASP.NET MVC Preview Release 5

    Published on 29 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Looks like the MVC team has put out preview release 5 of the MVC Framework today. You can get the latest version from CodePlex. Here is what I can tell has changed from the release notes. What’s New Added global registration of view engines Changed the IViewEngine interface to add the RenderPa Read full article

  • So I received an iPhone last week…

    Published on 28 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have to preface what I am about to say with a couple of things: I have a first generation iPhone I do not have AT&T or any other GSM network I am using this iPhone as a phone mostly as an iPod I use Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider I have to say I am pretty impressed [...] Read full article

  • Deadlocked!: “read committed snapshot” Explained

    Published on 25 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just recently read Jeff Atwood’s Deadlocked! article. I just wanted to give some more insight in to the read committed snapshot so that it is not perceived as “magic”. It has some definite advantages when dealing with deadlocks, however if your code relies on row level locking yo Read full article

  • Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

    Published on 14 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However [...] Read full article

  • Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

    Published on 14 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However [...] Read full article

  • Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Creating a default value for ActionMethod Parameter in ASP.NET MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

    Published on 12 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usa Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

    Published on 12 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usa Read full article