Archive for 'Development'

Tip: Make file uploads user friendly – usability comes first!

Tip: Make file uploads user friendly – usability comes first!

Just wanted to share a thing I just realized. Input files of the type “file” is evil! They’re ugly and they need to be replaced. But it doesn’t seem to happen in the near future. But if you, as I do, use jQuery there are a number of good alternatives to the evil input field. [...]

How I keep my repositories DRY and simple

How I keep my repositories DRY and simple

A couple of weeks ago, my friend and colleague, Jonas, wrote an article about keeping your project and repositories DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). Instead of having a repository for each POCO object within your project, he created a IRepository. A repository each object could use to get the most used methods: GetById() GetAll() Insert() Delete() [...]

Upgrade your ASP.NET MVC project from Visual Studio 2008 to 2010

Upgrade your ASP.NET MVC project from Visual Studio 2008 to 2010

I currently have a couple of projects going on. Some for clients, and then I have some ideas and experiments for myself, so that I can play around with NHibernate, LINQ to Entities, ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. I started one of my projects in Visual Studio 2008. Recently, I went to “The best [...]

My thoughts on “The best of PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie” – in Denmark

My thoughts on “The best of PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie” – in Denmark

Yesterday, I went to see Scott Guthrie presenting the best of PDC 2009. I must say… Scott is a great speaker! He jokes around while presenting the product at the same time. I wasn’t too impressed by the other speakers, though. Mostly sales speaks and techies doing some cool stuff about WCF, Azure, etc. But [...]