I hereby propose renaming ASP.NET MVC to just “.MVC”. It’s just so much easier to type.
Performance is one of the most important, yet often overlooked, aspects of programming. It’s usually not something you worry about until it gets really bad. And at that point, you have layers of code you need to sift through to figure out where you can remove bottlenecks. It’s also tricky, especially on complex, process orientated systems, to aggregate performance information for analysis. That’s where this gist for a utility performance tracer class comes into play. It’s meant to hook into Enterprise Library Logging Block by aggregating the elapsed time or information statements and pass them to the Event Log (or other listeners you’ve hooked up). Even though the gist is designed for the Enterprise Library, it can easily be modified for other utilities like Log4Net. Below is an example of how the entry looks in the EventLog. Read More
I was playing around with the Flickr API recently and got a little stuck: when using jQuery to call the Flickr public feed using jQuery’s $.getJSON method, I wasn’t getting any results. I thought maybe I was parsing the response incorrectly, but when I went to check out the data coming back in firebug, nothing was there. I couldn’t believe it- the response headers were present, but the body was blank. Calling the public feed url from the browser worked fine. What’s more interesting was everything worked in IE. So I did some experimenting and learned the issue: I wasn’t correctly using the endpoint to work with JSONP, which is required when using jQuery with Flickr. Then I thought I better learn more about JSONP.
I recently moved this blog and some other smaller websites to a virtual machine running on Rackspace Cloud. So far I’m loving having my own server, and have been able to get my hands dirty with Linux administration, apache, and mysql.
I’m a big fan of Gmail’s archive feature- I can move items out of the inbox quickly and find them later with search. To mimic this behavior at work with outlook, I’ve created this quick and dirty macro which does the job. Simply create a folder named “archive” in your mailbox. When you run the macro, it will move the current item in your inbox to that folder. I’ve created a keystroke which lets me run the macro easily.
