Keep using a custom controller Learn and Use Ajax Helpers More Rob Conery’s Law: When you have an “if” statement in the view, make a helper! I think this might be optional depending on your view engine. Spark almost solves? this problem. I miss dynamic languages. Please with model binding as a way to create a terse application/framework.

Change the app pool to target the .NET 4.0 Framework…it defaults to 2.

there are no native installers for ubuntu jaunty. you need to install from source. I found a nice shell script that does all the steps. http://www.nabble.com/attachment/23469480/0/install-mono-2.4

Sorry everyone that uses RSS to read my blog, both of you listen up. I updated the feed url after all that google move stuff. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ericpolerecky

I got back my shiny, rebuilt PC. After putting in a detailed build request for just Visual Studio, Visio and nothing else. No frameworks, tools, .NET stuff, nothing I fired it up. I am not shocked to see a workstation filled with so many programs, SDKs, runtimes, it looks like someone vomited up the results from a Microsoft downloads search for “.NET”. I never expected my request was not honored, I figured I would get the standard “developer” build, what I am shocked with is that the development leadership group (that I am part of) directed workstation services as to what software needs...

1. I spent too much time thinking about writing this 2. I know I am a workaholic 3. I have a problem; I must be great at whatever I do 4. #3 includes being a provider for my family…Hence #2 5. I won a million dollars…but threw away the winning ticket 6. I worked in tattoo shops for 3 years as a body piercer, made and sold body jewelry and have had 10 non-ear piercings 7. Being a father is the scariest thing I have ever done 8. I lost my two best friends in the last 6 months that was very hard on me 9. Kate and I have not missed a MMA (ufc) in almost 4 years and it’s cost us about...

Today I updated eric.polerecky.com to 2.7-beta2 using the wordpress-automatic-upgrade plugin. Everything went smooth. Once the upgrade was complete I had to disable wordpress-automatic-upgrade because of some errors in the admin pages. How to: edit wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php around line 2100 and change $downloadURL = ‘http://wordpress.org/latest.zip’; to $downloadURL = ‘http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta2.zip’;

I’ve come to be unhappy with the jquery plugin system. I seem to be in a perpetual cycle of “lookup-download-install-initialized-use” and based on the recent milestone slippage I just don’t have the time required when the only payoff (vs. other JS libs) seems to be streamlined JavaScript package……then again aren’t all the plugins adding crazy overhead? Whatever…I’m going to use the dojotoolkit. I love me some dojo!