Blog entries for March 2009

Something nice for the user experience. What do I mean? Well take the login section for example. That little login section up above to the right gave me some problems. How could I have an mvc submission for a login action, but still get sent back to the same view? My first thought was that I could just get the name of the current view and just return that from the controller action. Nope, I couldn't find anything that gave me that information. Now what? Well the easiest thing is to just do an AJ

Ok so I had the basics of an ASP.NET MVC blog site up and running. I had my data layer written using LINQ, I had my business layer defined with Services and Entities, and I was starting to build my MVC code on top of those. But now I was finding that I needed to page a number of things such as User lists when administering site Blog lists when administering site Blog entries Tag management And I'm sure there are a few other things that I'm forgetting about right now, but those are the bigs ones

Ok so I had the basics of an ASP.NET MVC blog site up and running. I had my data layer written using LINQ, I had my business layer defined with Services and Entities, and I was starting to build my MVC code on top of those. I had figured out how and where I wanted to do Ajax, and how to page my result sets. Now I decided I wanted to implement a calendar. Now if I was doing a Web Forms project I'd just grab a Calendar control and drop it onto the page. Then tell it what dates to highlight server

So, I'm sure you're thinking. Why am I bringing up BFMEII? It came out about 4 years ago or so, what's the point? Well first of all I wasn't blogging 4 months never mind 4 years ago, and secondly I just rediscovered this game. I was playing a bunch of Dawn of War and remembering just how much I love to play a good RTS when there was a Lord of the Rings movie marathon on TV at the same time. Naturally my brain put the two together and reminded me of these games. BFME II is a great game, not perfe

I downloaded a game for my iPod Touch the other day called Pocket God . It has 1000+ reviews with the vast majority of those being 4 star rating so I figured for .99 how could I go wrong. For 99 cents its a great game. The gist of it is that there is a little island where you can control the natives. You get to change the weather on them and zap the with lightning, toss them in a volcano, feed them to a shark, give them an earthquake (by shaking the Touch/iPhone), and number of other things. Its

I just saw this announcement for Max Payne 3 , and was so excited I had to post something. I can't say how much I liked Max Payne 1 and 2. I think i've already played through both of them twice and after reading this announcement I'm about to go play through them a third time. I have to say I liked Max Payne 2 better than 1 from what I recall (its been a few years), but both had a great storyline, and a atmosphere that really drew you in deep into the character. He was so flawed, dark and broodi

Ok, so I'm way behind on finishing up these Disney posts, but they will get done! So Epcot.  We didn't spend a ton of time here.  The kids were all about Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. Soarin This is my son's favorite ride.  I think we did it about 5 or 6 times this trip.  If you go on this ride anytime then try (if you can) to go to the one on the right.  That one appears to have the better quality film right now.  The one on the left has a LOT of wear and te

I just came across this post on JimHillMedia.com.  Apparently active annual passholders have a chance to win a sign from Space Mountain!  Not just any old sign, a sign that has been there since the opening.  There is a picture of a space mountain sign in the post, but no word on if its THE sign.  I'm really curious just which sign it is, mainly so I can find out how big it is and if it will fit anywhere in/around my house.  The sweepstakes is running from March 1st - Apr

Sure it was against Ottawa, who isn't much of a power this year (what the heck happened to Ottowa anyway, they still have great players like Spezza and Heatly, but they're terrible this year), but its still a win. For the most part they got the win in a good way. They started off with a shorthanded goal by Aaron Ward in the first period. Its great to score first in a game, and even better to do it short handed. Then, for the most part, the B's were in control. The score was 3 - 1 for most of the

And I've gotten to see it live in person this time. I went to the Kings game on 3/19 here in Boston. I had great seats. Front row balcony just slightly to the right of center ice, right behind the Bruins bench. I was with a good group of guys (my cousins Bob, John and Al (who are all brothers)), and we were all set to see the Bs take down a bad Kings team. I was really looking forward to this game because I was supposed to go to the game on January 16th with these same guys but I couldn't make i