Blog entries for Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Okay so I'm actually going into my MVC details now. When I first started using ASP.Net MVC I dumped everything into the ViewData dictionary using ViewData[""]. I had noticed the ModelContainer class that is created for you when you first create an MVC project, but honestly why bother? You can just dump whatever you want into the ViewData at will so why create a bunch of properties on a class? Uhm ok, but lets take the opposite approach. Why NOT create a bunch of properties on the class. My opini

So like a lot of my gaming friends I couldn't wait for GTA IV to come out on the PC. When it finally came out just before Christmas I told my wife I'd wait to see if I got it for Christmas rather than buy it, but I was really looking forward to playing it. To steal a line from My Blue Heaven ... ....5 o'clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no GTA IV. It was a dispointing Ch

Okay, so the B's lost last night.  My prediction was that they would win 5 - 3, and going into the third period with the B's leading 2 - 1 I felt pretty good about that. Then, well everything just fell apart.  In the span of 5 or 6 minutes the Sharks rattled off some goals and before you knew it, the score was 5 -2 in favor of the Sharks (hey at least I got the winning teams goal total right). How did Joe Thornton do?  Well, personally I think I was dead on with him.  He