Asp.Net and Colorbox: Creating a ‘delete’ confirmation dialog
This article was inspired by a friend of mine who wanted to implement a delete confirmation dialog in his website, and I thought it might be a useful little tutorial to write about. These days, I like...
View ArticleRedirecting to an action with an anchor with Asp.Net MVC
There are those times when you want to redirect to a route from inside your Asp.Net MVC controller and tag an anchor name (#myanchor) on the end, whilst still utilising the power of the route table. I...
View ArticleAdding a new Jquery UI theme to the default Asp.Net MVC 3 Project
The default project template for Asp.Net is pretty functional out of the box, but an interesting feature is that new templates install jQuery and jQuery UI out of the box! In fact, jQuery UI now comes...
View ArticleChanging the ordering for single bundles in Asp.Net 4
The new bundling support for Asp.Net MVC and WebForms is superb, and as it’s all built into the new framework, there’s no real reason not to use it if you’re not doing anything of this kind already. In...
View ArticleFluent Test Subject Builder with Moq
Attending DDD North a couple of weeks ago, I was inspired by Alastair Smith‘s talk on “Refactoring out of Test Hell”, which covered a few things that a development team can do to make unit testing...
View ArticleRedirecting to an action with an anchor with Asp.Net MVC
There are those times when you want to redirect to a route from inside your Asp.Net MVC controller and tag an anchor name (#myanchor) on the end, whilst still utilising the power of the route table. I...
View ArticleAdding a new Jquery UI theme to the default Asp.Net MVC 3 Project
The default project template for Asp.Net is pretty functional out of the box, but an interesting feature is that new templates install jQuery and jQuery UI out of the box! In fact, jQuery UI now comes...
View ArticleChanging the ordering for single bundles in Asp.Net 4
The new bundling support for Asp.Net MVC and WebForms is superb, and as it’s all built into the new framework, there’s no real reason not to use it if you’re not doing anything of this kind already. In...
View ArticleFluent Test Subject Builder with Moq
Attending DDD North a couple of weeks ago, I was inspired by Alastair Smith‘s talk on “Refactoring out of Test Hell”, which covered a few things that a development team can do to make unit testing...
View ArticleDockerizing a Node JS application - part one
Last week I gave a quick Docker demo to some colleagues at our internal developers hour to give them an overview of what it is and what it can do. In this blog post I run through a complete example...
View ArticleDocker part 2 - Composing with Docker Compose
In part one we went through how we can create a Docker container from a simple node application. In this part, let's look at how we can link our application to some other services and containers and...
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