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1. Chapter Grabber for Chapter Titles in MKV by Jarrett

   I recently updated an old program I wrote back in the .NET 1.0 days.  Seeing some of my old code was very interesting as suddenly I became very aware of how much I’ve learned since then. The updates I made are mainly to take advantage of tagChimp which is an online database of media…

   Filed under: HTPC
   Posted 11/19/2008 1:28:29 AM - CST

2. Change is Good for Technology by Jarrett

   Disclaimer: The views represented here do not reflect the views of my employer. As many others, I’m very excited with the outcome of the presidential election.  I’m proud to support who is being called America's first "tech president." His policies toward technology are very…

   Filed under: Politics
   Posted 11/7/2008 10:22:00 AM - CST

3. LINQ Syntax Choice by Jarrett

   Which LINQ syntax do you prefer?  The fluent style or the query style? I personally prefer the Fluent style as it appears to come natural to me.  However, I have yet to deal with some of the more complicated joins that may work better with the query style syntax.

   Filed under: C#
   Posted 10/17/2008 10:32:07 PM - CST

4. ASP.Net MVC Beta Crashing IIS7 by Jarrett

   With the new beta release of the MVC framework, I updated BlogSvc to compile and run with the new dlls that are now in the GAC.  After deleting from the gac and finally copying the dlls to my bin folder I things running smoothly from within Visual Studio.  However, when I deploy to…

   Filed under: MVC, ASP.NET
   Posted 10/16/2008 5:33:00 PM - CST

5. Deploy MVC Application by Jarrett

   I previously thought Visual Studio.NET only supported automatically deploying “Web Site” projects but it also works with “Web Application” and “MVC” projects. Right-click on your project and choose publish.   After choosing publish it will upload all the files based on your “Copy”…

   Filed under: MVC, ASP.NET
   Posted 10/15/2008 7:17:59 PM - CST

6. Using the New DateTime Support in .NET 3.5 via MVC & jQuery by Jarrett

   I’ve added New Global Date and Time Support to BlogSvc by utilizing the new expanded support for date times with proper time zone support.  Some highlights in the MSDN documentation: The DateTimeOffset structure represents a date and time value, together with an offset that…

   Filed under: BlogSvc, C#, ASP.NET, jQuery, MVC
   Posted 10/8/2008 10:24:19 PM - CST

7. MVC is Cool by Jarrett

   I've recently spent many late nights learning (by implementation) ASP.NET MVC and I'm very pleased with the new framework.  The old web forms model of programming was great for quick and dirty web apps but it really took too much control away from those developers who have a deep…

   Filed under: ASP.NET, BlogSvc, MVC
   Posted 10/6/2008 9:44:00 PM - CST