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RSS.NET (16)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-03-11 Two things missing from C# 0 None
2009-05-07 Simplified unit testing for ASP.NET MVC JsonResult 0 None
2009-03-18 First Impressions of Resharper 4.5 0 None
2009-01-06 Service DashBored: easily monitor your application's health 0 None
2008-12-16 Unit Testing in .NET Part 3 - Asserting That Your Code Rocks 2 None
2008-12-03 I declare victory for C# over C! 4 None
2008-11-24 Calculating aggregates with Microsoft Parallel Extensions for .NET 1 None
2008-11-21 Friday Grab-Bag 1 None
2008-11-05 Dynamic objects in C# 4.0 0 None
2008-11-03 Bridging the Java-.NET Gap: foreach-ing an Enumeration 0 None
2008-10-31 Why Microsoft instead of "Open Source"? 2 5
2008-10-17 System.Diagnostics.Process class woes resolved! 0 None
2008-08-20 Using LINQ to elegantly initialize arrays 1 None
2008-08-20 Easy testing via ActiveRecord and SQLite 1 None
2008-08-19 Using LINQ with ActiveRecord 6 5
2008-08-11 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 released? 0 4

RSSASP.NET (14)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-12-01 A fluent HtmlHelper extension for using FusionCharts in ASP.NET MVC, Part 2 4 None
2009-11-10 A fluent HtmlHelper extension for using FusionCharts in ASP.NET MVC, Part 1 0 5
2009-10-29 Fun little ASP.NET MVC bug 0 None
2009-09-08 Fluent wrapper for ASP.NET MVC TagBuilder 2 None
2009-08-11 Standardizing JSON Responses in ASP.NET MVC 1 None
2009-05-13 ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper for Uploadify, Take One 9 3
2009-05-13 Using Flash with ASP.NET MVC and Authentication 3 None
2009-02-06 ASP.NET MVC: Good in a lot of ways, bad in others 5 4
2008-11-26 Microsoft Chart Control for ASP.NET and WinForms 2 None
2008-11-18 A long time ago, in a GridTreeView far, far away… 0 4
2008-10-08 Creating a reusable grid tree view with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery 1 4.5
2008-10-03 The pain and horror of web deployment projects 0 None
2008-09-25 Web.config magic: configSource and file attributes 1 5
2008-07-29 Useful Info: Running x64 and x86 IIS Worker Processes Side-By-Side 0 None

RSSMVC (13)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-12-22 Exposing the View Model to JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC 10 None
2009-12-11 My best (or worst) MVC hack to date… 0 None
2009-12-01 A fluent HtmlHelper extension for using FusionCharts in ASP.NET MVC, Part 2 4 None
2009-11-10 A fluent HtmlHelper extension for using FusionCharts in ASP.NET MVC, Part 1 0 5
2009-09-08 Fluent wrapper for ASP.NET MVC TagBuilder 2 None
2009-08-11 Standardizing JSON Responses in ASP.NET MVC 1 None
2009-05-13 ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper for Uploadify, Take One 9 3
2009-05-13 Using Flash with ASP.NET MVC and Authentication 3 None
2009-05-07 Simplified unit testing for ASP.NET MVC JsonResult 0 None
2009-02-06 ASP.NET MVC: Good in a lot of ways, bad in others 5 4
2008-10-13 Creating a reusable GridTreeView with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery, take two 6 None
2008-10-08 Creating a reusable grid tree view with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery 1 4.5
2008-08-04 Unit testing complex ASP.NET MVC controllers with Moq 1 None

RSSCastle Project (5)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-07-24 The pleasure of ActiveRecord-based data access code 0 None
2009-07-15 ActiveRecord 2.0 Beta 1 Ships! 0 None
2008-10-20 Castle ActiveRecord: Quite Possibly the Greatest Thing Ever 0 None
2008-08-20 Easy testing via ActiveRecord and SQLite 1 None
2008-08-19 Using LINQ with ActiveRecord 6 5

RSSBest Practices (13)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-01-23 Data Storage: Why is the answer always "relational"? 0 None
2009-01-07 When good architectures go bad... 0 None
2008-12-16 Unit Testing in .NET Part 3 - Asserting That Your Code Rocks 2 None
2008-12-10 Unit Testing in .NET Part 2 - Your First Unit Tests 4 None
2008-12-09 Unit Testing in .NET Part 1 - Introduction to Testing 1 5
2008-12-02 Essential Development Team Tools 3 5
2008-09-10 Peer Reviews 3 None
2008-08-25 The importance of testing 5 None
2008-08-22 How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) - Part 3 2 None
2008-08-20 Using LINQ to elegantly initialize arrays 1 None
2008-08-20 Easy testing via ActiveRecord and SQLite 1 None
2008-08-15 How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) – Part 2 0 5
2008-08-11 Comments FTW! 0 None

RSSBlogEngine.NET (0)

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RSSDatabases (7)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-09-22 Announcing Esenterate – a clean .NET API for ESENT 2 None
2009-09-14 When to consider ESENT 0 None
2009-09-11 Alternatives to Relational DBs - ESENT 1 None
2009-09-02 Relational databases – the hammer-to-a-screw of software development? 3 5
2009-07-24 The pleasure of ActiveRecord-based data access code 0 None
2009-01-27 The pain and horror of hand-coded data access code 0 None
2009-01-26 Alternatives to Relational Storage, Part 1 - Introduction 2 None

RSSDeepCrawler.NET (4)

Date Title Comments Rating
2008-11-17 Crawling results in DeepCrawler.NET 1 5
2008-11-14 DeepCrawler.NET: Alive and Kicking 1 5
2008-11-12 Deep-web crawling with .NET: Getting Started 5 5
2008-11-10 Creating a deep-web crawler with .NET: Background 2 5

RSSDeployment (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-01 The trials and tribulations of using MSDeploy with PowerShell 2 None

RSSEsenterate (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-09-22 Announcing Esenterate – a clean .NET API for ESENT 2 None

RSSGames (0)

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RSSgit (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-11-24 Fun with Git: how to re-attach your ssh key on a new machine 0 5

RSSIoC (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-11 Using StructureMap to provide strongly-typed access to AppSettings 2 None

RSSJavaScript (12)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-12-22 Exposing the View Model to JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC 10 None
2009-09-30 Using jQuery UI to make a drag-and-drop capable table 0 None
2009-08-05 Internet Explorer 8 table-layout bug 1 None
2009-08-03 Integrating jEditable with liteGrid 0 None
2009-07-31 liteGrid: coming soon to Google Code! 2 None
2009-07-29 Merging and minimizing JavaScript files with YUI Compressor and PowerShell 0 None
2009-07-13 Introducing liteGrid, a lightweight jQuery grid plug-in 1 None
2009-05-13 ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper for Uploadify, Take One 9 3
2009-05-06 Prevent users from abandoning changes accidentally with jqGrid 6 None
2008-11-18 A long time ago, in a GridTreeView far, far away… 0 4
2008-10-08 Creating a reusable grid tree view with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery 1 4.5
2008-09-12 Why var is a very important keyword in a recursive JavaScript function... 0 5

RSSjQuery (12)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-12-03 Easy vertical and bottom tab panels with jQuery UI 2 None
2009-10-29 An auto-hiding menu bar with jQuery 0 None
2009-10-14 Improving jQuery’s Validation Plug-in 0 None
2009-08-28 liteGrid’s RowSortModule 0 None
2009-08-21 liteGrid’s new provider model for layout 0 None
2009-08-05 Internet Explorer 8 table-layout bug 1 None
2009-08-03 Integrating jEditable with liteGrid 0 None
2009-07-31 liteGrid: coming soon to Google Code! 2 None
2009-07-20 liteGrid – Recent Changes 0 None
2009-07-17 Editable cells with liteGrid 0 None
2009-07-15 Tree-Grid Module for liteGrid 2 None
2009-07-13 Introducing liteGrid, a lightweight jQuery grid plug-in 1 None
Date Title Comments Rating
2009-05-06 Link Roundup for May 6, 2009 0 None
2009-04-27 Link Roundup for Apr. 27, 2009 0 None
2009-04-13 Link Roundup for Apr. 13, 2009 0 None
2009-04-08 Link Roundup for Apr. 8, 2009 0 None
2009-04-06 Link Roundup for Apr. 6, 2009 0 None
2009-04-03 Link Roundup for Apr. 3, 2009 0 None
2009-04-01 Link Roundup for Apr. 1, 2009 0 None
2009-03-30 Link Roundup for Mar. 30, 2009 0 None
2009-03-24 Link Roundup for Mar. 24, 2009 4 None
2009-03-23 Link Roundup for Mar. 23, 2009 0 None
2009-03-20 Link Roundup for Mar. 20, 2009 0 None
2009-03-19 Link Roundup for Mar. 19, 2009 0 None
2009-03-16 Daily Link (MEGA MEGA) Roundup for Mar. 16, 2009 0 None
2009-03-03 Daily Link Roundup for Mar. 3, 2009 1 None
2009-02-26 Link Roundup for Feb. 26, 2009 0 None
2009-02-25 Link Roundup for Feb. 25, 2009 1 None
2009-02-23 Link Roundup for Feb. 23, 2009 0 None
2009-02-11 Link Roundup for Feb. 11, 2009 0 None
2009-02-06 Daily Link Roundup for Feb. 06, 2009 0 None
2009-02-02 Daily Link Roundup for Feb. 02, 2009 1 None
2009-01-28 Daily Link Roundup for Jan. 28, 2009 0 None
2009-01-26 Daily Link Roundup for Jan. 26, 2009 0 None
2009-01-22 Daily Link Roundup for Jan. 22, 2009 0 None
2009-01-21 Daily Link Roundup for Jan. 21, 2009 0 None
2009-01-20 Daily Link Roundup 0 None

RSSLINQ (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2008-08-20 Using LINQ to elegantly initialize arrays 1 None
2008-08-19 Using LINQ with ActiveRecord 6 5

RSSliteGrid (14)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-01-28 Using liteGrid with ASP.NET MVC, Part 2 – The LiteGridUpdater 0 None
2010-01-21 Using liteGrid with ASP.NET, Part 1 – The LiteGridJsonResult 2 None
2010-01-15 Work-around for jQuery UI Draggable refresh limitation 0 None
2010-01-15 Recent liteGrid changes 0 None
2009-10-19 The long road to fixing delete behavior in liteGrid 2 None
2009-10-09 liteGrid – now with draggable rows! 0 None
2009-09-28 (My) Javascript Stupidity 2 None
2009-08-28 liteGrid’s RowSortModule 0 None
2009-08-21 liteGrid’s new provider model for layout 0 None
2009-08-18 liteGrid Prototype Demo 0 None
2009-08-17 liteGrid code now available! 2 None
2009-08-13 What’s up with liteGrid? 1 None
2009-08-11 Standardizing JSON Responses in ASP.NET MVC 1 None
2009-08-03 Integrating jEditable with liteGrid 0 None

RSSLucene (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-05-08 Introduction to Lucene.NET 0 None

RSSMac (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2008-08-13 Top 5 Usability Lows of Mac 6 1
2008-07-30 I have been Mac-inized! 3 1

RSSMachineLearning (7)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-07-22 MLSharp Available 0 None
2009-04-10 A (much) more informed view of Infer.NET 0 None
2009-03-27 Naive impressions of Infer.NET 0 1
2009-03-19 A summary of text classification/document categorization 2 None
2008-11-03 Bridging the Java-.NET Gap: foreach-ing an Enumeration 0 None
2008-09-16 Machine Learning: Why you should care 3 5
2008-09-08 What is Machine Learning? 0 None

RSSMisc (32)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-04 A Newbie’s Experiences with NDepend 0 None
2010-01-06 The New Year – 2010 Edition 0 None
2009-12-28 Useful snippets 0 None
2009-12-09 A day in the life of a developer 3 None
2009-11-05 Stack Overflow Careers 4 None
2009-09-28 Why I will never, ever buy another Apple Macbook 1 None
2009-09-24 How to run and debug a Windows Service with Visual Studio .NET 2 None
2009-07-27 Things I hate 1 None
2009-07-22 On the plus side… 1 None
2009-07-22 Internet Explorer (including 8) sucks, and here is why 0 None
2009-07-21 Moving to Google Code – How to migrate your repository 0 None
2009-07-13 Comments disabled 0 None
2009-06-09 What makes a developer “great”? 2 5
2009-06-03 Thesis defense complete! 0 None
2009-05-11 “Hi, we’re Square Enix, and we are totally LAME!” 0 None
2009-05-05 Things I hate… 0 None
2009-04-23 I’ve been called out! 0 None
2009-03-21 Dropbox == win 0 None
2009-03-19 And the web weeps… 2 None
2009-03-12 Why I’ve gone dark 0 None
2009-03-06 Google Docs are the best thing since sliced bread 0 None
2009-02-24 Stack Overflow Fallout 2 None
2009-02-19 Me.Status = Status.Busy 0 None
2009-02-17 You know what’s awesome? 0 None
2009-01-05 The New Year 0 None
2008-12-05 Having a baby is like a software release... 0 5
2008-11-25 Must-have software: VirtualWin 1 None
2008-10-01 Why Microsoft should abandon Internet Explorer and go open source 0 None
2008-09-02 Oh great, another browser! 4 3
2008-08-15 Using Windows Live Writer on Windows XP x64 0 None
2008-08-06 Essential Development "Tools" 1 None
2008-08-04 LogMeIn.com problems with Firefox 3 and Vista 1 4.8

RSSmlsharp (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-07 MLSharp 1.0 Alpha Released 0 None
2009-07-22 MLSharp Available 0 None

RSSMoq (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-23 Easily override ToString using Moq 0 None
2010-02-22 Extending Moq: returning multiple results via lambdas 0 None

RSSMSBuild (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2008-10-07 Simplified web application packaging with MSBuild 0 None

RSSMSDeploy (1)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-01 The trials and tribulations of using MSDeploy with PowerShell 2 None

RSSPowerShell (3)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-02-01 The trials and tribulations of using MSDeploy with PowerShell 2 None
2009-07-29 Merging and minimizing JavaScript files with YUI Compressor and PowerShell 0 None
2008-12-05 Setting Directory Permissions with Windows PowerShell 0 None

RSSSQL (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-02-10 My day as a data analyst 0 None
2008-09-29 SQL Server Tip: sqlcmd variables 0 None

RSSTesting (7)

Date Title Comments Rating
2010-03-09 A troublesome brew: NHibernate + FluentNHibernate + SQLite on .NET 4.0 2 None
2009-08-03 Using web.config files in ASP.NET MVC unit tests 2 None
2009-01-22 Unit Testing in .NET Part 5 - Moq-ing your way to simpler tests 0 None
2009-01-13 Unit Testing in .NET Part 4 - Overcoming Testing Hurdles 2 None
2008-12-16 Unit Testing in .NET Part 3 - Asserting That Your Code Rocks 2 None
2008-12-10 Unit Testing in .NET Part 2 - Your First Unit Tests 4 None
2008-12-09 Unit Testing in .NET Part 1 - Introduction to Testing 1 5

RSSUI (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-10-29 An auto-hiding menu bar with jQuery 0 None
2009-10-04 Product Review: Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop 2 None

RSSWCF (2)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-10-27 A simple WCF host application 1 4
2009-09-27 A fixed ClientBase class for WCF proxies 0 None

RSSWhat NOT To Do (13)

Date Title Comments Rating
2009-10-21 Please stop over-using the var keyword 5 None
2009-10-12 The additive nature of bad code 0 None
2009-09-30 Please don’t listen to Joel Spolsky... 0 None
2009-04-17 How to build an MVC application WITH 200% MORE SUCK 0 None
2009-03-04 What's wrong with this code? 0 None
2009-02-17 Code that makes you go 'hmmmmmmm'... 0 None
2009-02-03 It's official: Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood do not understand testing (or math, apparently) 0 5
2009-01-27 The pain and horror of hand-coded data access code 0 None
2009-01-07 When good architectures go bad... 0 None
2008-11-07 How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) - Part 7 0 None
2008-09-19 How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) - Part 6 1 None
2008-09-05 How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) - Part 5 0 None
2008-08-29 How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) - Part 4 3 5

RSSWiX (5)

Date Title Comments Rating
2008-07-29 WiX Snippet: change enable32BitAppOnWin64 2 None
2008-07-29 Me - 1, WiX - 0 (issues with WiX and Windows Server 2008) 1 None
2008-07-28 WiX Snippet: Creating a scheduled task 0 None
2008-07-28 WiX PermissionEx problem solved 6 5
2008-07-28 Cross-platform WiX installer woes 1 None

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206 posts
241 comments
69 raters

About Matt

I am an overworked (and apparently overpaid) software developer with aspirations of acquiring a PhD in Computer Science. I started off coding in C over a decade ago.  Since then, I've migrated from C to C++ and branched out to C#, PHP, VB.NET, JavaScript, and worked with a wide assortment of other languages that I hope to never deal with again (I'm looking at you, COBOL). Oh, and yes, I've written some Java.  Does that make me a bad person?

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