Treasure Your Exceptions

18 simple rules

Matt — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:26:25 +0000

A friend blogged this recently and it struck such a chord that I thought I’d repeat here in entirety rather than simply link. At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Here …

One-Pot MVC

Matt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:55:20 +0000

I’m going to be giving a talk at “The Stack” in August. If you’ve never heard of it, this is a monthly user group for developers in the Liverpool area who use Microsoft technologies. I’ll be talking about some of …

TechDays 2011

Matt — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:25:09 +0000

Today a contingent from the Mando Group programming team took an excursion to the Microsoft TechDays event in Fulham to hear about a cross section of innovations in the Microsoft Web platform. There will be further presentations over the next …

Extension-less URL’s in Umbraco

Matt — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:45:20 +0000

Umbraco has built-in support for human-readable, SEO-friendly URL's ...

Additional Umbraco specific appSettings

Matt — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:44:16 +0000

Specify alternative folders for JavaScript, stylesheets, uploaded media...

Customising the RTE (Rich Text Editor) in Umbraco

Matt — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:53:02 +0000

Tweak TinyMCE with custom styles, micro-templates and other customisations...

How to apply a toolkit theme in Silverlight 4

Matt — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:45:01 +0000

I just had to apply a theme to a simple Silverlight 4 application I’m developing for Labs, and it took me a bit of research to find what I was looking for, although the steps turned out to be very …

DevWeek 2009

Matt — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:36:34 +0000

On Tuesday I caught an early train to London and arrived at the Barbican estate for ‘DevWeek’, a 3-day series of technical seminars. Let’s get one thing out of the way; the Barbican estate is architectural lunacy. I never expected …

Referencing parent repeater items from server controls

Matt — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:49:10 +0000

This is something I’ve had to do a couple of times in the past, and someone else in work had the same requirement last week. The situation this resolve is that you’ve got a repeater on your page, but within …

Web.config security issue

Matt — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:53:50 +0000

A colleague raised an interesting security ‘gotcha’ related to web.config files last week. Apparently this particular gem was raised at a recent Microsoft conference in London Village and there was a collective ‘gasp’ from the audience as a roomfull of …