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MongoDB & .net in as few steps as possible

This is a very quick ‘get up and running in as few steps as possible’ because MongoDB makes it so easy to get started. Setup MongoDB Download the latest version of MongoDB from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads (v1.8.2 at time of writing) Unzip the files and place the bin folder somewhere (e.g. c:\mongo\bin) Create a folder c:\data\db (this [...]

Come work with me!

At Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]

Learning Silverlight

This is a series of posts of my journey learning Silverlight one weekend: Learning Silverlight (this post) Learning Silverlight #1 – where to start Learning Silverlight #2 – Tooling Up Learning Silverlight #3 – Getting Started Learning Silverlight #4 – Sample Project It’s been a while since I dived into Silverlight and rolled my sleeves [...]

You’re doing handlers wrong

Okay so it’s a link bait, sensationalist title, but that fact I’ve recognised that fact makes it okay yeah? Anyway like I said you’re doing handlers wrong… or rather, to stop with the hype-generating, FUD-like statements; If you’re waiting for RPC/Async handlers to return in order to update your application’s interface then allow me to [...]

DDD8a Review

Yesterday I attended DDD8a at Microsoft UK, Reading. DDD events are .net events organised by a group of members of the .net community touted as “by developers for developers” and this certainly holds true. This was the first ddd event I have attended but will certainly try to attend more in the future. The following [...]

Silverlight Masterclass

A while back I took a training course on the then new Microsoft RIA toolset offerings. The platform then was definitely not what it is today and now I would consider the MS offering a very solid platform for building RIAs upon and is now pushing Adobe for new and faster innovation. As a developer [...]

The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information

Having received the following error in Visual Studio a few times I thought I’d post the solution here. I did have debug enabled and seemingly nothing i changed would stop the error. Many of the solutions found when first searching didn’t work, what I had to do was to delete all files from the following [...]

“invalid character” and “ajaxcontroltoolkit is undefined” errors on some comptuers

This was an extremely odd error that I’m posting here for others and probably my own future reference. We recently deployed an Intranet system that used some of the ASP.Net AJAX framework, two users were receiving a javascript error and not displaying a tabcontrol. The first js error was “invalid character at line 0″ and [...]

Intro to NAnt tutorials

Just posting this for my own reference really, these are ages old but Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo has written a bunch of excellent articles on getting started with NAnt here.

Inversion of Control Containers Links

I’m slowly getting my head around IoC containers and want to note a few useful links for future reference. As things tend to go in my geeky exploits I read about and learn these ideas from the .net world, who often have picked things up from the Java world, I then try to find out [...]