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github-repos – GitHub repo information in your webpages!

After attempting to add Dr. Nic’s GitHubBadge javascript pluggin into my new forum, erlanguid.com, I decided to create my own version that will work with multiple possible elements in the page (as is necessary in a forum). It should be noted that I am by no means a javascript expert and I used Dr. Nic’s pluggin as reference for some of my code. Credit where credit is due: Thanks Dr. Nic!

Via some jQuery 1.2.6 goodness and a little bit of elbow grease, I seem to have it working alright. I’ll quickly walk you through the code and how to make use of it should you so desire!

PostSharp: filters for C#

Aspect oriented programming is a relatively new paradigm but it’s existence in the the .NET world was brand new to me when one of my clients/bosses Kris Kniaz stopped by my desk and told me about it. He pointed me at their site and at first it was a little vague what the software was trying to accomplish but about 2 minutes into reading it over I realized I was looking at C# filtering!

ASP.NET on Rails

A friend at work alerted me to the new MVC framework that’s in beta for .NET and I was really excited to see what they had come up with. He showed me some code samples and I immediately recognized some very Rails-ish stuff in there. So lets take a look and see what they have going on because so far its looking pretty awesome.

XMLViewer Silverlight Control

So instead of rolling happenings into a gem, I got bored and decided to hack together some Silverlight and see what it was like. I’ve often said that C# is awesome for development, but that ASP.NET is not the best. The event driven model makes me want to gouge my eyes out (Page_Load, After_Load, Post_Pre_After_Load), [...]