Fixing Visual Studio’s Ctrl-Tab behavior
One feature of Visual Studio that has always bothered me is how it handles Ctrl-Tab. On pretty much every other application I have ever used, Ctrl-Tab (and its inverse, Shift-Ctrl-Tab) has had the...
View ArticleSEO-Friendly URLs in ASP.Net MVC
SEO Friendly URLs are something that are becoming quite commonplace these days, but making these SEO Friendly URLs might not be obvious at first. I’d like to walk you through a solution I used. For...
View ArticleSEO-Friendly URLs in Ruby on Rails
Recently I wrote about implementing SEO Friendly URLs in ASP.Net MVC and thought I’d take a stab at porting it over to Ruby on Rails. For this example we’ll be using the same scenario, we have a movie...
View ArticleTryParse with default values
Often I find myself writing parsing logic to convert a string to some kind of number, such as something coming in from a source I can’t control. Generally I end up with a block of code such as: int...
View ArticleResolving a phantom namespace issue in a Windows WPF Application
Recently a friend of mine was asking for help with an issue where he was getting a namespace error when trying to compile his WPF application. The type or namespace name ‘Utilities’ could not be found...
View Article28.days.later – Rails-style date helpers in .Net
When reading some articles about what makes Ruby (and Rails) "elegant" and "beautiful" the following line of code was used to demonstrate the power and flexibility of Ruby. 7.days.ago As you might...
View ArticleWhy I love distributed source control systems
Lets say you’re humming along one day and you realize, oh crap, one piece of hardware or network infrastructure related to my source control system goes down, what does that mean to me? You’re on Git —...
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