Posted by Al Nyveldt on Nov 15, 2009
If you are working with ASP.NET MVC and you haven’t taken a look at the Spark View Engine, you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes exploring Spark. While it might not be for everyone, Spark View Engine offers a different option to the standard Web Forms View Engine used in MVC and it has a lot going for it. Over the next week, I plan is to write a few of posts exploring the basics of Spark. We’ll go into installation, configuration, syntax, layouts, and part...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Aug 28, 2009
I’m pretty late this this game, but… I got here in the end. I needed to make a few mockups recently and I wasn’t really excited about any of the options that I had before me. Until this time around, I used my trusty pencil and paper or white board depending on the situation. This was always less than ideal and my attempts to use software to build them always took way to much time to do the same thing. This time around, I gave Balsamiq Mockups a try. I...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 28, 2009
When I looked around at blog templates on different sites, I’m running across more and more templates that expect each post to have an image or two with it in the display template. I think it looks great, but I also think I would post even less if I had to have images in the certain sizes for each and ever post I wanted to make. In thinking about it however, I decided it would work out pretty well for me if I picked out an image for each category and let my theme ...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 25, 2009
I spent some time over the past few days working on a new theme for this blog. It had been a while since I had made a BlogEngine theme, but the process is still the same as it was 2 years ago. It is a fairly easy process and it really allows for a lot of customization with just the smallest amount of code. I thought I would share a few of the techniques I used in making this theme over a few blog posts. Hopefully, they will come in handy for someone m...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on May 28, 2009
I've been a big fan of my iPhone since I got it back in October 2007. It was a game changing device for me back then. I went from carrying a phone and an iPod to work to a single device. I had mobile web browsing, good email access, and a solid phone which was a major upgrade from my Audiovox Smartphone and I could load up my audio as well. After 3rd party apps became a reality, I've slowly started to add some to my device. As I was driving hom...
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