February 2012
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Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves →
Imagine working on software that uses brainwaves. Amazing.
January 2012
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Hello 2012! Let's tidy up and start fresh
It’s that time of the year again - the beginning! The best time of the year (it is summer here) and even if I try not to, I make resolutions for the year ahead.
//TODO: Finish The BAKit Lite!
Three weeks to go. Three weeks is a measly amount of time in the scheme of things. But with a trusty PLAN, everything will be fantastic (My only worry is for things left off the trusty plan).
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November 2011
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Our own project
And by us, I mean that our team lead has gone off to look after his own business (go, Nathan!) and James and I are left to our own devices. We are about 3 weeks in to our new project, and it’s awesome. This is a standalone system and building it from scratch using ASP.NET MVC3 and Razor has so far been exciting. The main struggle we have had was around not having enough understanding of how...
October 2011
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Checking out Dart →
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September 2011
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Official blog regarding our Web.api/Sencha Touch... →
Woooo, I was the first female speaker at the .NET User group here in Wellington! Well, as far as the guys can remember anyway. Now I don’t usually like making a fuss about being a female developer, we are not such a rare breed these days (yay!). But I would love for us just to get even with the guys, and it’s been 8 years of male only seminars… I was very very nervous, but it...
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Web.api, resources and HTTP GET
Now it’s time to set up a Resource that will contain the information we want to pass through our web.api. This resource is a Data Transfer Object (DTO) and is a container to carry our information. It becomes an entity we can use to transfer information with our HTTP calls instead of (possibly many) parameters. Our Task Resource is set up like this:
1. In our WebApi Project, create a new...
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Start programming with web.api and ASP.NET MVC
Right! Now we have a brand new web.api project set up.
The first thing we want to do is create a new folder in our project, and call it APIs. This is where we will put our Service Contracts - the classes that define which service endpoints our API will expose.
In this folder create a new class. For this example, we will use a simple task list, so I called my new class ‘TaskApi’.
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Setting up WCF web.api with ASP.NET, NuGet and...
This post will show how to set up a basic web.api application with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2010.
One of our current projects is to create a mobile version of our cloud based web application. The back-end functionality for this is already in place, all we really need to do is to expose the data in a new way. By using WCF web.api to expose our service directly over HTTP we will be able to...
August 2011
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The Ultimate Productivity Blog →
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F# code snippets →
I’ve been using fssnip for examples while dabbling in F#.
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Paul Irish on HTML5 →
Paul Irish’s ‘HTML5 for Humans’ at WDCNZ 2011. This was one of my favourite talks because it was just so darn cool to watch.
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Summer of Tech
Summer of Tech (previously Summer of Code) is a Wellington internship programme for Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analyst and Design students. They match up smart and passionate students with innovative companies for a few months of very valuable work experience. And I say ‘smart and passionate’ with a straight face… even though I was one! I know that I didn’t...
July 2011
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On Visual Studio 2010
There are millions of tips and tricks for Visual Studio. Most could be useful, but I’ll never get around to using them more than once. Every developer has a few favourite short-cuts.
Here are 6 quick things that I use every day when programming.
1. Debugger Display:
No more stepping through, hovering over a collection of items and drilling down and down further trying to see if the one...
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On WCF Web.Api
In about a month James and I will be giving a talk at the Wellington .Net User Group on using Sencha Touch and WCF Web.Api to build the mobile version of The BAKit. In preparation for this nerve-wrecking venture, I just wanted to post the (brand new!) tutorials I have been using to get the web.api side of things working in our ASP.Net MVC application. You can find them here, under quick starts.
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