I have setup some test controllers and was struggling to hit them remotely from my local machine. The main issue was because my local machine was in one domain and the controllers were in another domain. After lots of fruitless googling I came eventually came across this simple solution. ...
I have finally finished some updates on my first foray into Windows 8 apps. Last summer I uploaded, to the Windows Store, version 1 of my Hacker News App which, using the bigrss feed from Hacker News, displayed the top stories from the popular tech news aggregator. It was pretty basic - it showed comments for each story and allowed the viewer to view the original story. For release 2 I added a couple of new features that I think will make it more useful as well as made a couple of bug fixes and UX improvements. ...
So I recently finished reading JavaScript Allonge. This is a great book, with recipes for JavaScript that are explained simply yet effectively. It provides recipes for functions that are clean and straightforward to follow. You can even get a JavaScript library which contains all the functions outlined in the book at allong.es. ...
Sometimes, especially if you are working with a large amount of web applications or different versions of the same application, you find IIS gets cluttered with all the different web applications. It is quite tedious to go through and delete different ones when you want to clean up. I created this simple powershell script to allow you to remove web applications from a specified website within IIS from the command line. ...
My application can be found in the Windows store. ...
I have been starting to make more and more forays into JavaScript and decided to bite the bullet and look into one of the more popular javascript libraries that allow a full application to be built, end to end with JavaScript. First was deciding what I was going focus on. Initially I started to look at backbone.js but discovered that really, backbone.js was more for handling your view layer better. You still needed some form of server side components. Looking for something more, I turned to node.js. Their website proclaims: ...
When writing software you are, very quickly, going to run into the need to have some form of source control. It is just inevitable. You might start off, on your own, creating copies of your files in different folders- the poor man’s version control. Very soon you will make changes and think “crap!”, wishing you could revert back to yesterday, or two days ago. But it is too late, there is no history. There isn’t much of anything - except your last saved version and your 3 month old deployed version. You need some control. Source Control in fact. ...