I'm going to do an experiment today
I’ve started learning C# and ASP.NET MVC about 5 or 6 months ago. While learning I’ve developed a clone of Reddit that had a very clear differentiator: you could see the messages and the web page at...
View ArticleAre dynamic languages just a temporary workaround?
This can unleash so much hate mail, but here it goes, my inbox is ready! Are dynamic languages just a temporary workaround? I’m not sure! I’m switching between the two types of languages all the time:...
View ArticleFormating strings in C#, like in Python
I like Python’s way to format strings because you can use it everywhere, it’s part of the strings. You can do print("Welcome %s!" % user.name) as you can do Console.Writeln("Welcome {0}!", user.Name)...
View ArticleFile input for forms in ASP.NET MVC
I’m not sure why ASP.NET MVC was shipped without a file input type for forms. Maybe it’ll come in MVC 2.0 or 3.0. Meanwhile, I created one. I spent two or three hours trying to figure out how to go...
View ArticleConverting the ASP.NET MVC project into OpenID
When you create an ASP.NET MVC project it comes with a controller called AccountController that manages logging in, logging out, registering, changing password and so on. Since usernames and passwords...
View ArticleSVGs in .Net using Cairo and Gtk+ (and C#)
If I was using C it would have been simply a couple of calls to librsvg, but on C# things got a bit more ugly because Rsvg, the wrapper around librsvg is not finished. And other bindings are also...
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