Areas - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

Let's use Areas to create semi-independent sections of our ASP.NET MVC applications!

Inside the Mind of the Tech Conference Speaker

I attended the AngleBrackets [https://anglebrackets.org/]/DevIntersection [https://www.devintersection.com/] tech conference in Las Vegas this week (as I did earlier this year [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/anglebrackets-day-one-wrapup-mvc-project-design-and-interviews/] ). It was a fantastic experience as always, and I highly recommend that developers of all skills and ages attend conferences,

Using T4 Templates to Generate Enums From Database Lookup Tables

The major project we've been working on had a non-unusual requirement: take these SQL database tables and convert them to enumerations we can use over a service. A quick Google search found some code that did exactly what we wanted, so of course we (ok, I) copied-and-pasted that code into

HTTP 418 I'm A Teapot - Just A Joke, Or Something More?

I stumbled across an interesting StackOverflow thread [http://stackoverflow.com/q/24018008/106356] earlier this week.  I had to read it a few times to notice what bothered me: it turns out that there is a status code for HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot".  Why in the world would HTTP

Wait, Pick, Learn, Ignore: Dealing with JavaScript Framework Fatigue

I'm mostly a server-side developer, but occasionally I delve into the wild world of client-side programming. Each time I do, I get bombarded with blog posts and tweets and advocates [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/zealotry-has-no-place-in-software-development/] , each hyping their own preferred JavaScript framework. Use Angular [https://angularjs.org/], they said. No,