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Please Adjust your Personal Expectation Meter

Please Adjust your Personal Expectation Meter

A developer's expectations should be to grow their worth instead of expecting a high-paying job as soon as they learn a new language or when they graduate from college.

Quick Tip: How to use multiple submit buttons on one FORM

Quick Tip: How to use multiple submit buttons on one FORM

Most submitted forms have one button to submit the data. What happens when you have 2 or more buttons? This post will cover a technique on how to act on numerous button functions in one form tag.

Quick Tip: How to pass visual alerts with an HTMLHelper

Quick Tip: How to pass visual alerts with an HTMLHelper

Today, we discuss the ability to create notifications to our users when something goes wrong in a process/controller using an HtmlHelper called ViewMessageHelper.

AngularJS: How much has it grown and is it worth learning?

AngularJS: How much has it grown and is it worth learning?

If you've been in the web industry for a while, you've heard of AngularJS. In this post, I talk about how popular the JavaScript MVC library has become and why you need to get into it now.

How I used Codemash 2.0.1.5 to determine my technology plans for 2015

How I used Codemash 2.0.1.5 to determine my technology plans for 2015

Last week, I went to a programmers conference in Sandusky, Ohio called Codemash. Today, I cover the sessions I attended along with my comments about each one.

ASP.NET MVC ActionResult: How to implement a login screen using an ActionResult

ASP.NET MVC ActionResult: How to implement a login screen using an ActionResult

Some of the thin controller posts were using ActionResults in a wierd way. Today, we'll go step-by-step through creating a custom ActionResult for logging in a user.

Happy Holidays and have a Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays and have a Happy New Year!

Since I will be off for two weeks, I want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.

How do you read HTML? Parser or RegEx?

How do you read HTML? Parser or RegEx?

When reading HTML with C#, do you use a parser or do you use Regular Expressions? This post will discuss how parsing is better than regular expressions.

ASP.NET MVC Routing: Play Traffic Cop with Your Routes

ASP.NET MVC Routing: Play Traffic Cop with Your Routes

As an ASP.NET MVC request is received, the routing sends the request to the proper controller. Today, we talk about how to use routing, some tips on using them effectively, and how to debug them easily.

What is the best (and fastest) way to learn ASP NET MVC?

What is the best (and fastest) way to learn ASP NET MVC?

For those interested in getting into ASP.NET, the most recent web technology is ASP NET MVC. In this post, I show you the fastest way to learn how to build web applications with ASP NET MVC.