Blog entries for Thursday, 05 February 2009

What has gone before-I had problems installing blog software with my host, so I decided to write my own.  I sort of force myself to do ASP.Net MVC instead of ASP.Net Web Forms, and was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it.  Then I went to create my schema and decided to make my life more difficult for myself by having a multi-blog site. So how to architect my system on top of the LINQ generated layer.  Hmm well I'm using MVC.  I could just throw my business logic in th

Yesterday I ran into a couple of problems when I went to upgrade to the release candidate for MVC. The first had to do with a custom autorization filter I had created for this site. The second problem had to do with request validation suddenly being enabled. The AuthorizationFilter Some quick background for those not familiar with this method. I wanted to do my own flavor of request authentication. So I created a class that derived from FilterAttribute, and from IAuthorizationFilter. Deriving fr

My family and I just got back from a six day trip down to Walt Disney World.  I'll be posting my thoughts, as well as my So we stayed at Saratoga Springs.  I have to admit I was a little nervous.  My wife and I stayed in that area for our Honeymoon back when it was the Disney Institute.  We had a great time (its what kicked off our whole love fest for Disney), and it worked great for a young couple.  We could walk to Downtown Disney when we wanted to, the busses were no