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Using System.Threading.Tasks On MonoTouch
I ran into an issue this week where I was attempting to load data from a web service asynchronously using System.Threading.Tasks on MonoTouch. I was able to fire the task off but kept getting an error...
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Today I Learned: You Cannot Transfer Ownership of iOS Applications
I have recently completed my first iOS application on behalf of Furnishly, the local furniture exchange. All the release bugs have been worked out and the app is available on the app store. Yesterday,...
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My Ghetto Non-AMD Compliant Dependency Loader
At Cheezburger, we make use of require.js for most of our client side javascript. Recently I had to implement some features that needed to pull lots of 3rd party scripts that were not AMD compliant....
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How Deep a Simple Problem Can Get: Moment, Node, Heroku & Time Zones
Over the weekend I started building my first real node.js application. I had watched the Hello Node series from TekPub, read the LeanPub books and attended NodePDX this year. I was ready to get down in...
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Node.js It’s Not Just for Websites
So I have been working on a node.js project recently, that I was hosting on Heroku. Sadly, Heroku doesn’t allow socket.io based node apps to use true websockets. So I asked my good friend Adron who was...
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Implementing Asynchronous Actions Based On User Preferences Client Side
On my current project, we needed a way to check a user set preference before taking action on behalf of the user. To be specific, we wanted to check if the user prefers for us to post an open graph...
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Cheezburger is going to SXSW and I will be there
So, I signed up to go to SXSW with Team Cheezburger. I am pretty pumped to go and hang out with so many creative people and share ideas. I am also excited to be going back to Austin, TX. I love that...
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Source of All that Great Music
If you were ever curious where I get the music for most of my videos, I tend to start with The Kleptones and end with Mash-Up Your Bootz. The Kleptones always have great tunes, and most people on the...
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Getting Started Managing Client Side Scripts with Require.js
Back in the 90s when I started my development career, the first language I learned was Javascript. It is a deeply and perfectly flawed language. We created huge DHTML messes with it. And I moved on to...
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Why Most Solutions to Gilded Rose Miss The Bigger Picture
A couple years ago, I had the pleasure to work with one of the best teams I have ever and probably will ever get to work with again. There was a certain amount of magic we had over the span of a few...
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Giving Back to the Education System That Gave Me A Career
Yesterday, my high school Facebook group blew up with chatter about a group of middle school kids from my home town, Green Forest, Arkansas who had published an iOS app. Apparently, these kids got...
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ASP.NET Html Helper for Enumeration Based Drop Downs
Not a particularly mind-blowing post today, but I found this little bit of code helpful and it might help someone else. So here you go. A simple html helper for ASP.NET MVC for creating drop downs...
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Test Driving a Node HTTP Server with James Shore
Recently I have been watching the Let’s Code Test Driven JavaScript video series by James Shore. The series attempts to show the building of an application in node.js applying rigorous testing to the...
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Useful jQuery Plugin of the Day: Waypoints
At Cheezburger, my team is currently working on a sharing widget for our recently released list post type. If you take a look at this list, you will see our MVP of the idea. You will notice a share box...
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Useful Tool of the Day: smtp4dev
We send a lot of emails to our users at Cheezburger. Sign up for an account, get a new user email. Submit some funny content, get a message with a link to the content so you can find it. Make the...
View ArticleDependency Could Not Be Resolved Error in Visual Studio 2015 RTM
Microsoft dropped the RTM (release to manufacturing) version of Visual Studio 2015 on Monday with great fanfare. I, like many other .NET developers, hopped on MSDN, downloaded their favorite flavor and...
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Building a Static File Server in ASP.NET Core RC2 with the CLI
The Pitch The fine folks over at Microsoft released ASP.NET Core RC2 this week which dramatically changed a lot of things under the hood and introduced the new dotnet CLI, a command line interface that...
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Azure Resource Manager IaaS via PowerShell
Recently, I have been working through the Managing Azure IaaS with PowerShell class by Elton Stoneman. This is hands down the best class I have taken on Azure. It gets right to the heart of becoming an...
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.NET Fringe 2016 July 10th-12th PDX
After having not attending any .NET related conferences since ALT.NET faded away, last year I headed down to Portland to attend the inaugural .NET Fringe. Among others it was organized by my friends...
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