Software Developer
MVC
Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) Platform
Pattern for efficiently paging database rows on a web page
Jun 6th
The technique I use for paging through database rows which I’ve found works efficiently and is easy to re-use. It works well for both traditional and AJAX requests and handles sorting and filtering requirements as well. This is based on ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and NHibernate + SQL Server but the principals will be the same for other technologies.
Running MongoDb on Microsoft Windows Azure with CloudDrive
May 24th
I’ve been playing around with the whole CQRS approach and think MongoDb works really well for the query side of things. I also figured it was time I tried Azure so I had a look round the web to see if there we’re instructions on how to run MongoDb on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. It turned out
Homongous! MongoDB, NoSQL and CQRS
Mar 31st
I’ve got what I consider to be a pretty good development stack – all the usual suspects: MVC for the front-end; data stored in SQL Server or MySQL and accessed via NHibernate with mappings using FluentNHibernate conventions; the domain model mapped to a view model using AutoMapper and a sprinkling of NInject dependency injection to
Absolute URLs using MVC (without extension methods)
Feb 3rd
Do you need to generate absolute URLs within your MVC application? Often this will be in the form of URLs used outside of the web-browser such as those used within Atom Publishing Protocol collections or maybe links that are going to be sent out in emails. Basically, anything where the regular relative URL won’t do.
When to use RenderAction vs RenderPartial with ASP.NET MVC
Feb 21st
At first glance, RenderAction and RenderPartial both do a very similar thing – they load ‘some other content’ into the view being rendered at the place they are called. Personally, I think they should be used for different scenarios so these are my thoughts on where each one should be used and why. First though,