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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Book Released!

30-Apr-09

The long anticipated ASP.NET MVC book entitled “Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0” has just been released and available over at Amazon.com right now.  Published by Wrox and content put together by some of our greatest names in the .NET community, Scott Guthrie, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack. I also published in a previous post [...]

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Follow Me On Twitter

24-Apr-09

Alright, so I’ve joined the global conglomerate/borg takeover which is the Twitter movement… To be honest so far so good, (apart from twitter disabling my login and pointing my account details at ‘agrasdelic’s account information *sigh* at first), but it will be the place I’ll post any cool / interesting / informative links and tweets [...]

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How To Determine if Object Derives From Collection Type

16-Apr-09

Ever wanted to know how to determine if an object derives or implements from a collection type? I figured as all collections I understand in .NET 2.0+ derive unequivocally back to IEnumerable I could test if my object implemented this class. However after trying a few of my own ideas (the obvious Obj is IEnumerable, [...]

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ASP.NET MVC Released As Open Source under MS-PL License

03-Apr-09

Scott Gu has announced that Microsoft is open sourcing the ASP.NET MVC Framework to be released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). Very cool. As quoted “The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.”. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/02/1845214 I’ve linked to Slashdot.org rather than directly to Scott Gu’s post [...]

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My name is Graham O'Neale and I'm a software architect from Gold Coast, Australia. I am an overtime thinker, full time coder and awake part time in the real world. I have a keen interest in software development, particularly in the realm of programming (C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ (2 SQL), Entity Framework, Silverlight, Blend, WCF, WPF) and a keen interest in the cutting edge and innovation. I have a new found love for design patterns, ALT.NET practices and well crafted software architecture. The purpose of this blog is to express any thoughts, findings, tips and gripes along my travels in the wonderful world of coding and technology...