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Spearmen, Javelin Throwers, and the State Pattern. Oh My!

// August 15th, 2009 // 6 Comments » // C#

Jamie Farser & Ayende Rahein recently had a conversation about using the State Pattern for units in a game Jamie is building. I’ve been following along trying to figure my way through the state pattern as well, and decided to take a stab at my own solution to Jamie’s problem.

MVC Membership Starter Kit Released

// August 7th, 2009 // 36 Comments » // MVC

Almost six months after the official release of Asp.Net MVC 1.0 and nearly a year after the last release of the starter kit, I’ve finally rewritten and released the Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit.

Return of the PagedList

// June 15th, 2009 // 12 Comments » // C#, LINQ, MVC

A few days ago, Craig Stuntz reported an interesting observation: when the first page is returned, the class performs a Skip(0). Suprisingly, this is not free. With that in mind, I set out to correct that issue as well as incorporate a few changes I’ve made over the past year. The result is nearly identical to the last posted version, just a bit more readable. Additionally…

Creating an MVC Project in Visual Studio 2010

// June 9th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // MVC

Earlier today Phil Haack announced that the Asp.Net MVC installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available on CodePlex along with the bonus of some basic snippets for use with MVC projects. This is exactly what I have been waiting for before installing Visual Studio 2010, so I decided to give it a [...]

DevPocalypse ? A *Basic* Asp.Net MVC + jQuery Game

// December 12th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // MVC, Presentations

Last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at the second Northern Virginia CodeCamp of the year, thanks to an invitation from Jeff Schoolcraft. For those of you who were able to make it to the event, thanks for attending, and make sure to fill out an eval! For those of you who didn’t make [...]

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