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Why I choose the Microsoft stack for my new startup
One thing is for sure - Microsoft gets a bad rep these days. Maybe its because of Windows Vista. Maybe its because of classic ASP, or even ASP.NET’s WebForms. Maybe it is because they are a large...
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How do you define scalability?
“Scalable” is an interesting word that gest thrown around all too much in the development\information technology world. I recently had an argument a discussion with a co-worker about the possibility...
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Why I don’t want to talk to recruiters without knowing what they are selling...
As I’m sure many people have experienced, I receive a handful of recruiter emails every week. I categorize these messages into two groups. The first group is very untargetted – promoting positions...
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Call mulitple services or methods asynchronously in ASP.NET MVC controller
I recently had to write some code that reached out to both Google and Bing, performed searches on both, combined and manipulated the results and return the result to the client via JSON. My problem...
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Use PostSharp to easily allow MiniProfiler to profile your ASP.NET application
Scott Hanselman has written a great post detailing how to include the MiniProfiler in your ASP.NET application. I tried the profiler out and it works great. Its lightweight and easy to configure but...
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A few things I love about CoffeeScript
When I first heard about CoffeeScript, my first thought was "I know JavaScript pretty well.. so why would I need to write it in CoffeeScript?" Boy was I wrong. CoffeeScript is a wonderful high level...
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Serving web fonts cross domain with IIS
By default, IIS7 has built in support for various webfont MIME types so you might not notice any problems at first.. but once you try to serve these files over a CDN such as Akamai or CloudFront (like...
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Our experience with Backbone.js and why we’re considering AngularJS as a...
When we began building FieldLens in early 2012, the natural choice for our single page application was Backbone.js and Underscore. Backbone was great because it did not force us down any particular...
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My team and I have been learning about AngularJS and how we would use it as a replacement for our Backbone.js based application. Here is a list of resources that we've found to be helpful in learning...
View ArticleRails Asset Pipeline times out when deploying on Heroku
At FieldLens, we run a very complex (read: Enterprise) Single Page Application on Rails hosted by Heroku. The application is 99% CoffeeScript and 1% Ruby which means that we’ve got a ton of client...
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