Category Archives: MVC

ASP.NET MVC: Building Web API’s with HeaderValueProvider

A friend of mine who is involved in a local start-up here in MPLS was talking to me about how his start up is building their web api. Their start-up is a mobile application that has a back end data store that they’re communicate with via a REST-esque API build using ASP.NET MVC, hosted on…

Empty Folders: A git svn gotcha

I’ve been using git-svn for about 6 months at one particular client without any major issues (we’ve our fair share of small nuances here and there though). However, I did run into a weird problem recently.

Desert Code Camp Tomorrow!

I’ll be presenting “Introduction to Android Development” and “ASP.NET MVC2 with the Spark View Engine”. Sign up for yopur sessions here: http://www.desertcodecamp.com If you’re in the area, I hope to see ya there!

jQuery Tip: Brute Force Dirty Form Detection

If you disable your “save” button on your MVC views when the page first loads and want them to be auto-enabled when any input on the form changes, you can do that with the following jQuery snippet. This is sort of a hack*, but it works. With this HTML and this javascript: You’ll “enable” the…

ASP.NET MVC REST API WINDSOR CONTROLLER FACTORY

I’m using the ASP.NET MVC REST Toolkit for a REST API I’m building for a mobile infrastructure. Long story short, it will be responsible for service hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users through their mobile phones and rich applications (Android, iPhone and eventually the WP7 Phones). The one thing that the Toolkit did…