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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Working in default
This is the fifth post in this series. For our purposes, small team development, the majority of the time will be spent developing right in default. This is by far the simplest approach and for a...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Reverting
This is the sixth post in this series. Need to delete undo a commit? Want to throw away your work and start over. It happens to all of us. With Mercurial this is a breeze. Undo changes before a...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Branching
This is the seventh post in this series. In the third post we discussed the various branching scenarios and some ideas as to when to branch. We settled on branch as needed approach as our default work...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Tagging and further reading
This is the eighth and final post in this series. Tagging With tagging you can more easily go back to a point in time or specific version of your code. While tagging is not required for this, it...
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Unrecognized Expression Error in jQuery 1.8 and above when using :radio,...
I upgraded a project recently from 1.7.2 of jQuery to 1.8.2 and began testing my pages. On one of my pages I was getting the following error: Doing a little research I discovered that in the 1.8...
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Upgrading an MVC4 Visual Studio 2010 Solution to Visual Studio 2012 and .Net...
Moving an MVC4 Visual Studio 2010 project to 2012 is so far in my experience with a small application rather quick and easy. However, if that’s all you do then your app will be missing out on the nice...
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Some excellent free developer books–Succinctly series
Have you heard about the Succinctly Series? Syncfusion has produced a number of free e-Books on various subjects ranging from source control to jQuery to HTTP. I highly recommend you pick up these...
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Location, location, location. A tale of DateTime and IsDaylightSavingTime.
TL;DR Location is everything in a lot of things. The same is true of DateTime’s IsDaylightSavingTime method. This method uses the time zone setting of the machine it’s running on to determine this...
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When validations fail. A story of view model data annotation conflicts.
All of the applications I put into production use ELMAH to track unhandled exceptions. In one our new releases of an application I noticed a semi-rare bug occurring through these logs.Validation...
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Clean those folders on deploy.
Today I wasted an hour or two chasing my tail around trying to figure out why a change to one of my ASP.NET MVC Views was not at all showing any changes in my jQuery Mobile version. I cleared my...
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Oracle VirtualBox notes for a developer.
I create a virtual machine every now and then and even less have to resize the hard drive. Below is my mental notes jotted down so I can easily remember how to do what I normally do with virtual...
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Using Bootstrap 3 modal in ASP.NET MVC 5
I’ve created a github project showing various examples of how to use/interact with Bootstrap 3 modal dialogues in ASP.NET MVC 5. I did this project many months ago when I was starting out with...
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