On October 28th, 2014 I had the great fortune to be interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell, hosts of .NET Rocks! We had a great conversation about what it’s like for a long time .NET developer to make the move to developing applications using Scala/Akka/Spray on the Java Virtual […]
Functional Scala
This is the fifth in a series of posts that walks through the experience of what it was like to go from being a veteran .NET developer with no awareness of the world beyond the borders of the CLR to exploring the mysteries of the Scala/Akka/Spray stack on the JVM. The […]
Object-Oriented Scala
This is the fourth in a series of posts that walks through the experience of what it was like to go from being a veteran .NET developer with no awareness of the world beyond the borders of the CLR to exploring the mysteries of the Scala/Akka/Spray stack on the JVM. The […]
Meeting Scala
This is the third in a series of posts that walks through the experience of what it was like to go from being a veteran .NET developer with no awareness of the world beyond the borders of the CLR to exploring the mysteries of the Scala/Akka/Spray stack on the JVM. Scala […]
Getting Set Up
This is the second in a series of posts that walks through the experience of what it was like to go from being a veteran .NET developer with no awareness of the world beyond the borders of the CLR to exploring the mysteries of the Scala/Akka/Spray stack on the JVM. It’s […]
Into the Wilderness
This is the first in a series of posts that walks through the experience of what it was like to go from being a veteran .NET developer with no awareness of the world beyond the borders of the CLR to exploring the mysteries of the Scala/Akka/Spray stack on the JVM. […]
Managing Intellisense in Razor Views with MVC 5 Using Custom Builds in Visual Studio 2013
Summary An unusual quirk of the new Razor view engine in MVC 5 with Visual Studio 2013 seems to be that if you set the solution output path to anything other than the default project’s bin folder you’ll lose syntax highlighting and Intellisense support in the application views. After some […]
Thoughts on Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds
Yesterday I took the day off and went downtown to have a look at the Air & Space Museum’s exhibition Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds.
Simple Multitenancy with ASP.NET MVC 4
In this walkthrough I show how to create a simple ASP.NET MVC 4 web application where each client instance is accessed via a unique subdomain using a multitenant architecture.
Preserving Whitespace in DropDownList Items with C# MVC 3
Recently I noticed that the whitespace of the text on my pages wasn’t being preserved when the page loaded. Then I was reminded that, generally, multiple spaces get collapsed and text will wrap when it’s necessary. If you want to change this behavior then you’ll need to reach for the […]