How to clean up a folder tree with NAnt
If you want to redistribute the source of a Visual Studio project you cannot just zip the folder tree because otherwise the archive will contain lots of useless files and folders: the bin and obj…
At the Italian Agile day in Bologna
Tomorrow I’ll be at the Italian Agile Day in Bologna: it’s going to be “my first time” at an Agile conference and I’m pretty excited about that. Two members of the UGIALT.NET user group, Emanuele Del…
Not even in my worst nightmare
I warn you, send your child to bed before reading this code snippet: <span id="lblUser Birthday">User Birthday</span><br><input type="text" name="txtUser Birthday" ID="txtUser Birthday">OK, the…
Configurable indentation for NHaml
NHaml, an alternative view engine for ASP.NET MVC written by Andrew Peters, uses indentation instead of opening and closing tags to identify code blocks. If you never saw something written in NHaml…
How an extensive downtime influences traffic and search rank
At the beginning of October, the server that powered the Ugidotnet blog site (and all the other sites, including the article library and the forums) had a hardware failure (2 HDD in the RAID broke at…
How to call controllers in external assemblies in an ASP.NET MVC application
If your ASP.NET MVC is growing large, it’s likely that you are partitioning your controllers in different namespaces, or maybe even in different assemblies, and it might happen that you have…
SEO starting guide for ASP.NET
Today I just found two great sources of information on Search Engine Optimization.Google’s search engine starter guideThe first has been released directly by Google: Search Engine Optimization Starter…
Windows Live Writer doesn’t cope well with small screens
Probably the team that is developing Windows Live Writer never tested it with “small” resolutions: I’ve a 15” LCD display on my Dell D830 with a native (and thus maximum) resolution of 1280 x 800 and…
How to start the day in good mood in a rainy November morning
Stay up till 3am to work on an ASP.NET MVC book and write some samples on alternative view engines Wake up at 7am and tumble out of bed Grab the Vespa and ride 20 minutes under a pouring rain…
Red X on Build folder on Team Explorer
Today a colleague asked me to allow him to schedule a new build on the project. I thought “he is an admin of the project, he should already be able to do so”. But still he was not able to access the…