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Thoughts on autonomy, self direction, digital business and life.

• Medium Trust is a PITA

  Medium Trust hosting turned a deleted controller reference into a 2.5-hour debugging nightmare. Why partial-trust .NET environments are a pain.

  Donn Felker – January 31, 2010

• I’ve Moved to WordPress

  Why a die-hard .NET developer moved his blog to WordPress -- BlogEngine.NET kept breaking on RackSpace Cloud, and it was time to use what works.

  Donn Felker – January 28, 2010

• New DimeCast: Spark Partials Part 2

  Part 2 of the Spark View Engine Partials DimeCast digs deeper into undocumented features for building clean, well organized views.

  Donn Felker – January 28, 2010

• MVC vs. WebForms. Stop It.

  Stop the ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms flame war -- pick whatever ships working software fastest for the team and problem in front of you.

  Donn Felker – January 22, 2010

• GiveCamp 2010 A Success

  Recapping the first Twin Cities GiveCamp, a weekend where volunteer developers built a free software solution for the Animal Humane Society.

  Donn Felker – January 18, 2010

• Shortcut: Including a Namespace

  Without ReSharper, the Visual Studio shortcut to auto-include a missing namespace changed in VS2010: it's now Ctrl+. instead of Shift+Alt+F10.

  Donn Felker – January 11, 2010

• FIX: Failed to Generate a User Instance …

  Fix for SQL Server's failed to generate a user instance error: run your IIS app pool under an account with rights to create the DB.

  Donn Felker – January 10, 2010

• New DimeCast Is Up: Spark Partials Part 1

  New DimeCast, part 1 of 2, covers using Partials in the Spark View Engine to keep your views clean, compartmentalized, and organized.

  Donn Felker – January 9, 2010

• New DimeCast is Up

  New DimeCast covers Named Content Areas in the Spark View Engine and how to use them to keep your view content organized and structured.

  Donn Felker – December 29, 2009

• Suspending Resharper 5

  ReSharper 5 replaced the old disable toggle with Suspend - here's how to map it to a shortcut so huge generated files don't lock up your IDE.

  Donn Felker – December 4, 2009

• Android Tip: Watch Screen Sizes

  With more Android phones shipping in different screen sizes and densities, test your app across all of them in the emulator, not just one.

  Donn Felker – November 7, 2009

• Frugally Increasing Employee Moral

  Cutting free coffee and soda to save a few bucks tanks morale far more than it saves. Cheap perks are a cheap insurance policy on retention.

  Donn Felker – November 7, 2009