Monthly Archives: May 2009

Booting to a VHD

If you’re like me and run all development in a VM, then this is going to be great news for you … Hanselman posted an excellent article on how to boot from a VHD. Check it out here. This is exciting stuff and I’m going to give it a whirl this weekend.

Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer Tonight

Its tonight at Kierans in Downtown Minneapolis. See you there! More info here.

The new MarketWatch.com

Over the last 5+ months myself (as well as thirteen other Magenic consultants) have been nose-to-the-grind-stone on a very high profile project. Due to the NDA at the time we were not allowed to state where we were working and on what we were working on. However, that time has now passed. Let me start…

MVC HtmlHelper.ActionLink with Css Class

When using the MVC helpers (namely the HtmlHelper class in this example) you have to be aware of what you’re typing into the htmlAttributes object (which is an overload of the Action method on that class). Passing in values via a view is usually as simple as (Im’ using spark here):   ${Html.ActionLink("Foo", "Foo", null,…

Productivity Boost: The SVN Switch Command

If you’re working in a shop that uses SubVersion and also utilizes any form of branching you will probably run into a point in time where you have 10 different copies of your source tree on your disk. Usually you will have one copy per branch. If your project is small this usually isn’t a…