Monthly Archives: May 2009

Essential Tools

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Marc

Insipired by Scott Hanselman’s blog post on the subject, I’ve decided to compile a lit of the tools I’ve added to my new developer machine.  Most of these are producivity enhancements, but some are just for fun. These are just … Continue reading →

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Fuzzy-Matching of names

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Marc

Yesterday at work, I had to try to knock together a quick application to parse a database table and pull out records with a matching name.  Simple at first glance, but more complex when you think about the common mis-spellings … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET MVC – Helpers

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Marc

This is the third in a series of posts about things I found out while learning ASP.NET MVC. Today : Helpers. Helpers are, as their name suggests, helpful things. If, for example, you want to add the current assembly version … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET MVC – Deploying on Win XP

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Marc

This is the second in a series of posts about things I found out while learning ASP.NET MVC. Today : Setting up your development XP machine to run your site. This is actually quite a simple one, but be warned, … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET MVC – Preparing for the real world

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Marc

This is the first in a series of posts about things I found out while learning ASP.NET MVC. Today : adding jQuery support that will work wherever the app is deployed in a directory structure. In order to reference the … Continue reading →

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