asp.net Building the Castle Windsor Dependency Injection Populator for ASP.NET vNext As I blogged about previously [http://davidzych.com/2014/07/28/asp-net-vnext-dependency-injection-with-castle-windsor/] , I built a Castle Windsor populator for ASP.NET vNext. For this post, I’ll walk through some of the more interesting pieces of it. Installer In Castle Windsor, an installer is a class that implements IWindsorInstaller [http:
comment Discourse V1 has been released As promised by the team [http://blog.discourse.org/2014/06/discourse-v1-0-next-month/], Discourse has just hit V1.0 [http://blog.discourse.org/2014/08/introducing-discourse-1-0/]. As Jeff Atwood says the version number is mostly arbitrary, but it shows that the software is ready for rapid adoption in communities everywhere. > Version
completion Progress Indicators are Always a Good Idea Progress bars. You know them. You love them. They tell you when the computer is going to be done with a task, or when you are going to be done with a task. Sometimes they’re accurate, sometimes not so much [http://xkcd.com/612/]. Regardless of accuracy, studies have
coincidence Don't be a Tweek Tweak Programmer My previous post, Please learn to ask questions [http://davidzych.com/2014/08/20/learn-to-ask-more-questions/], asks developers to start asking more questions and try to understand the code behind many framework tools they use. A sibling of this topic is programming by coincidence. PbC (as it will henceforth be referenced
abstraction Learn to ask more questions I recently installed sod in my backyard along with an automatic sprinkler system. I performed all the work myself (with the help of some friends and family when necessary, of course) and that included laying the sprinkler pipe and hooking it up to the copper mainline. I didn’t know
crash The investigation of a site crash When I woke up this morning I noticed by site had crashed with the following error: > Error establishing a database connection. Awesome. What a helpful error message. WordPress is basically saying: [https://davidzych.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/shrug.jpg] Thanks WordPress. I ssh’d into the server to see
discourse Discourse: The way software should be As you may have heard, I recently set up Discourse as my blog commenting system: > Installed @discourse [https://twitter.com/discourse] on @digitalocean [https://twitter.com/digitalocean] for my blog. Amazingly easy. http://t.co/U13jkoLssD — Dave Zych (@DaveZych) August 15, 2014 [https://twitter.com/DaveZych/statuses/500315843167662080] I have
asp.net Specifying package dependency versions in ASP.NET vNext This post was inspired by this question on StackOverflow. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25232344/managing-dependencies-in-vnext] Noel [http://stackoverflow.com/users/195910/noel] asks: > At the company I work at we do the following when we need references to third party dlls in our projects: * Use nuget to get package * Pull
jack dorsey Simplicity requires complexity A major goal of a programmer is to try to map a complex analog world in a digital form. It’d be easy to follow in complexity’s footsteps and provide shoddy solutions to these problems. We have to remember, though, that simplicity is essential to the success of an
bluehost What are the last 4 characters of your password? I used to have this blog hosted on Bluehost [http://www.bluehost.com]. I set up the hosting account years ago to host a gaming community and it had served it’s purpose well. I had no downtime that I can remember and my site was always pretty responsive. A
asp.net ASP.NET vNext Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor In a previous post [http://davidzych.com/2014/06/02/dependency-injection-in-asp-net-vnext/] I explained how to set up and use the built in dependency injection container in ASP.NET vNext. Today we’re going to look at setting up and using the popular Castle Windsor DI container. In order to use
keyboard How important is typing ability? As a programmer, I spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard and naturally I’ve gotten pretty good at typing. Out of curiosity I took a typing test to see how fast I am [http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php?] (surprisingly I haven’t taken one
asp.net Dependency Injection in ASP.NET vNext One of the big headlines of ASP.NET vNext is that dependency injection is built into the framework. It’s a pretty basic implementation of DI, but although it’s very basic I’m sure it will suffice for most applications. I’ll show how to set up and use
asp.net ASP.NET vNext Links ASP.NET vNext was announced a few weeks ago and there are now some great resources available explaining what it is, why it’s here and why it’s a really freaking important change. Github All of ASP.NET vNext is open source and available on Github. The Home project
.net Getting started with ASP.NET vNext ASP.NET vNext is the next version of the ASP.NET web framework. The focus this time around is strip out unnecessary bits and make a leaner, meaner, easier-to-use framework. A few of the things done include: * Side by side deployment of .NET – you can deploy all code, dependencies and
git Difference between git reset soft, mixed and hard The reset command. Confusing. Misunderstood. Misused. But it doesn’t need to be that way! It’s really not too confusing once you figure out what’s going on. Definitions First, let’s define a few terms. HEAD This is an alias for the tip of the current branch, which
buzzfeed Twitter isn't a blogging service, so let's kill the tweetstorm There’s a new way of posting on Twitter that’s gaining in popularity – The Tweetstorm™. Coined by BuzzFeed (as far as I know), a Tweetstorm is a message or rant that spans multiple tweets, with each tweet commonly being prefixed by #/. BuzzFeed describes it as such: [http://www.buzzfeed.
api The Universe is not programmable, but we can document what we can Wired posted an article [http://www.wired.com/2014/04/the-universe-is-programmable/] with the idea that the entire universe is an API and explained how we need to tap into its potential. The basic premise of their argument is that an API “lays out the code’s inputs and outputs” and
apt-get Get some packages with Microsoft OneGet Are you a Windows user? Do you see people using apt-get [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto] and Homebrew [http://brew.sh/] and get filled with rage? Are you not a fan of chocolate? [https://chocolatey.org/] Well, then, you are in luck! Introducing, OneGet. What is OneGet? OneGet
design Users see the UI, not the code UI design is hard. Like, it’s way hard. And it’s also a very important piece of the software puzzle. In fact, some might say it’s the most important piece because to users, it is the software: [http://www.serviceassurancedaily.com/2006/12/the-enterprise-ui-part-1-why-ui-design-is-important-%E2%80%93-and-so-difficult-%E2%
git Migrating from SVN to Git; How we did it My team migrated from SVN to Git about 3 months ago. After a few tweaks, a few bugs and a little elbow grease we’ve been stable ever since. And you know what? It was one of the best moves we’ve ever made. Developers are more efficient and we
authors Migrating from SVN to Git So you’ve done it – you’ve finally made the decision to switch to Git. SVN does some things very well, and has been a great source control system since it’s creation in 2000. But the features that Git brings – distribution, performance, easy branches, easy merges, stash – are hard
.net Microsoft releases a preview of the .NET Compiler Platform, codenamed Roslyn Microsoft released a public preview of the .NET Compiler Platform, codenamed Roslyn, on April 3rd, 2014. The code is available at http://roslyn.codeplex.com/ for you to bask in all of it’s glory. You can clone the .NET Compiler Platform Git repository using this command: > git clone https:
colors Coloring your Posh-Git output As a followup to my previous post, Coloring your Git output [http://davidzych.com/2014/04/05/coloring-your-git-output/], if you use Posh-Git [https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git] you can also edit the colors of the Git output by modifying the Posh-Git settings. What is Posh-Git? It’s a fantastic set
.gitconfig Coloring your Git output Do you sometimes have a hard time viewing the output of a Git command? Updating the colors might help! In Git, you can edit the config to change the color of the output. You can set colors per repository or globally. We’ll focus on the global config here. The
