Author: Ryan Garaygay
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Model View Presenter – Building from Scratch
Rodolfo Cerrada, one of the best minds in software development that I know of just opened up his "Learn by Example" blog with a a simple to understand but comphrehensive post on the Model View Presenter pattern. Including a downloadable solution for everyone to explore. Check out the article with following link: Model View Presenter…
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SQL Server 2008 – All For You Sweepstakes
For those of you not subscribed to MSDN Magazine blog but viewing this, I just found this SQL Server 2008 "All For You" SweepStakes All you have to do is download SQL Server 2008 CTP (you have to be signed in with your Live ID for identification) and you get to win these: Grand Prize:…
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My first bug catch with WatiN
I caught my first bug (regression) because of WatiN and NUnit just now. Something I wasn't able to catch during my previous manual tests. [more] Two items that I run into but got over with: 1. AJAX (UpdatePanel). I show/hide controls with AJAX and previously finding elements by id had some issues if it's hidden…
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Minimum Permission Required for Assembly
A jumpstart on security your applications by determining and applying only the minimum required permissions. [more] I ran into this thread on Resetting your web application or web site without recycling app pool or IIS. just recently. The basic idea of the first option for achieving its goal is to call "HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain();". Interestingly there's a…
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Wrox Blox – Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Upgrade
I’ll hopefully (likely) be taking the ASP.NET 3.5 MCTS beta exam this week and though I’m quite aware that there are more than enough articles and videos in the web to review for the exam I just felt like treating myself to this wrox blox Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Upgrade. These are [more]selected chapters in their…
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SearchMe – Cool Search Engine
SearchMe is a new search engine still in its beta phase but offers categorized results and visual search (thumbnail/preview) of the resulting site/pages? Since its still in beta, you have to register an account. My last count was like 900+ left. So go try out the link above. I found this from First alternative to…
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Unit Testing ASP.NET
I was looking googling around the web for unit testing strategies for ASP.NET (UI/Presentation Layer) and posting some partial notes. ASP.NET MVC Framework is something to look forward too. It is still in Preview 2 but pointing to a good direction. In addition, if I'm not mistaken however it can only be used with Web…
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View MIX Sessions
I got this link from MSFORUMS' new SilverLight Forum View MIX 08 Sessions (and others including MIX 06, 07 sessions) from the following link: Mix Session For those of us who isn't able to attend these sessions in person, this is cool. "About MIX" [more] On the frontiers of the Web, boundaries are blurring—developers and…
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Personal Web Starter Kit Timeout Expired
I was getting some annoying intermittent timeout exception on my personal site (see My Site in top nav) timeout expired.png (56.21 kb) (screenshot of the error) As I didn't have time I figured it must have been something in my hosting setup but it became pretty annoying that I figured I should have a short…
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Generate SQL Job Schedule Description
I was actually calling the system stored procedure "msdb.dbo.sp_help_jobschedule" in my previous post about modifying column list from a called stored procedure, While working on that I noticed that [more]the description (schedule_description) being returned by stored procedure (if you set @include_description = 1) returns date and times as integer values (rather than date/time format). While…