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Build an RSS Feed Reader with jQuery and jGFeed

I recently updated my home page to include summary of the latest posts for this blog. Here is a screen shot of the summary section: I am using dasBlog as my blog engine and I originally approached

Ninject Binding and the Decorator Pattern

I am really enjoying Ninject as an IOC container. If you want to get started with Ninject check out my previous posts: Ninject – Getting Started, Resources, Basic Binding Ninject – Life Cycle Management or Scoping Recently,

A Simple jQuery Slide Show Plugin

I am working on a project that once again requires a slide show on the page. Previously, I posted on a more complex slide show that was configurable. This time everything is much simpler. I have a

Trimming The Trunk In Subversion

I have a number of third party libraries that I use in my applications. I also have a number of utility type assemblies that I have created and re-use in many applications. In this post, I will

Ninject – Life Cycle Management or Scoping

Previously we discussed getting started with Ninject and dependency injection in general. In the getting started post, we introduced a fictitious example application. This application defined concrete implementation for the following interfaces: IFileSystem – Abstraction of file

Ninject – Getting Started, Resources, Basic Binding

This post will cover the information needed to get started with Ninject. By the end of this post, you will be able to use Ninject in your application as a dependency injector. Here is a description from

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers

In future posts, I plan on diving into Ninject 2. As I was writing that post, I found myself covering a lot of background material on dependency injection (DI) and inversion of control (IOC) containers. This is

Getting Started With CI Using Hudson For Your .NET Projects

In this post, I will explore installing and configuring Hudson as a continuous integration server for .NET projects. Why Hudson? This is good question. I know other CI servers exist, however, Hudson happens to already be an

Use MSTest To Run Your Tests Via Command Line

One step in setting up your continuous integration environment is getting your tests to run via a command line. My development environment is Visual Studio and I am using the Microsoft testing framework. I did not imagine

Developing ASP.NET MVC Apps Using Mono

As some of you know may know, the Mono Project allows your .NET Framework applications to run cross platform. Mono’s .NET implementation is based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure. It is