3Mar2015
The return of Pex
Effortless unit testing with Smart Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate
23Feb2015
Getting started with Microsoft Fakes
When inheriting a legacy project, if it’s well-structured it’s fairly simple to isolate and test the components and begin working, but what do you do when that’s not the case?
2Feb2015
Async controller actions in Umbraco Part 2
In my previous blog I explained how to get the httpContext to survive an asynchronous callback by using the aspnet:UseTaskFriendlySynchronizationContext application setting and I questioned why this wasn’t set by default. Well I’ve since discovered why that’s the case and it has some pretty significant consequences for Umbraco’s backend CMS.
16Jan2015
CourtesyFlush for web optimisation
At Wiliam we love web performance almost as much as we love a somewhat lowbrow double entendre, which is why we love CourtesyFlush.
4Dec2014
Google is killing captcha and it’s about bloody time
Captcha was always a good idea on paper, but in practice it means annoying legitimate users.
7Oct2014
Async controller actions in Umbraco
Following on from my previous blog about thread exhaustion, I recently had to deal with a site experiencing thread exhaustion that happened to be an Umbraco site. This issue was nothing to do with Umbraco itself, it was synchronously calling a fairly slow webservice that was responsible. My solution? Async controllers
4Sep2014
Thread exhaustion
One of the biggest headaches for any web developer is the 503 – “server too busy” error message from IIS.
18Jul2014
Writing code is easy, reading code is hard
Don't just copy paste from Stack Overflow, try reading the source code
24Jun2014
Application logging
All applications require logging to some degree, whether that is simply logging to the standard output stream or asynchronously logging a fixed size rolling log file to disk using enterprise logging tools.
8May2014
21Mar2014
21Jan2014
Take an existing product and put a clock in it
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson “People are afraid of new things. You should have taken an existing product and put a clock in it or something.” So this is my new blog post, with a clock in it.
22Oct2013
The CMS is not the be-all, end-all
You can't build a website without a CMS right? Wrong. And your website might be all the better for it.
13Jun2013
Adaptive/responsive technical and SEO considerations
Adaptive and responsive design have emerged from the desire to serve all the content of a single site from a single domain.
28Aug2012
Overriding MVC unobtrusive client validation error placement
The problem I encountered recently was that I had a field wrapped in 15 pieces of design flare and really needed to add the error class to an element several levels up the DOM hierarchy.
20Apr2012
.net Rounding
I know Math.Round() has an overload that accepts and enum that specifies which type of rounding to use and I always assumed the default would be ‘symmetric arithmetic rounding’.
17Jun2011
Using Umbraco in a load balanced environment
Building seriously robust websites in Umbraco – via load balancing – is more glamorous than you might think.
2Nov2010
Using the .Any() linq extension
Using the .Count() linq extension can be really bad practice.
25Aug2009
Visual Studio Intellisense for jQuery
Intellisense for javascript was one of the best new features to come with Visual Studio 2008, and now intellisense has come to jQuery.
2Jul2009
IIS7
When I am developing web sites, I like my development environment to match, as closely as possible, the actual live environment on the server that will host the finished site. For this reason I prefer to use IIS for development and testing, over the inbuilt development server included with Visual Studio.
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