http://dotnetworkaholic.com Still wishing for Self : ICloneable Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:27:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a plea to anyone who blogs, writes or talks about ASP.Net MVC. This stuff is pretty simple, let's not scare people away. In the last four weeks of learning MVC I have: Read the book ASP.Net MVC in Action (Work in Progress via MEAP) Attended Microsoft's Firestarter in NYC Read a raft ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/mvc-guru-phd-wannabe/ Many sites say v8 of the WRT-54G routers cannot be flashed with DD-WRT. I have now done this twice and here are simple instructions - these are re-worked from bauer-power who's post I came across when fearing my first attempt bricked the router. First try on a v8 took me ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/dd-wrt-on-linksys-wrt54g-v8/ For my slides and NAnt + Cruise Control config files click here. If you have any more questions please email me. DDD6 was the 6th UK 'code camp' and I was luckily enough for my session to be voted in. Many people missed out attending because there were ~450 registrations in ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/ddd6-uk-code-camp/ Presenting involves elements of luck, I think we can rely less on luck... After a series of extremely well received talks for the Atlanta .Net group I almost bombed last time. It was not a total disaster and luckily few were present to witness it. I had given the presentation ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/how-to-suck-at-presenting/ == UPDATE: Registration is full. It took just a few days!!  == Registration is now live, these free conferences always fill up fast so register right now! It is on a Saturday at Microsoft's office in Reading and there are some great looking sessions - some good ones are bound to overlap with my ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/uk-dd6-on-nov-24th/ Bit of fun here: last week I headed to North Carolina and Deal's Gap, aka Tail of the Dragon as I was sick of hearing friends talk about how great it was. 318 curves in 11 miles is their tagline, if you love cars or motorcycles you must check it ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/non-tech-wagon-on-the-dragon/ Shawn (the ADO Guy) pointed me to Google Reader last Summer and that spelled the end of my Blog Lines use. Both are web based readers, and ideal for reading RSS feeds at various computers. It remembers all feeds, and even what has been read from machine to ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/google-reader-gears-and-list-view/ Why was I not aware of this? It is a free quarterly print/web publication, after scanning the back issues it looks more useful than the MSDN Magazine is lately: Sign up here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/ PDFs are there too; I just put all the issues on my thumb drive ready for the next ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/microsoft-architecture-journal/ It has been five years since I first used NUnit and have used it with great success on almost every project since then. This post briefly reflects the pros and cons of Automated Developer Testing I experienced. . Zero Defects can be the norm Given a serious amount of control on projects ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/reflections-of-five-years-nunit-experience/ After five weeks of DIY it stopped being fun. Over the last year we've all but re-built rental house #2. Everything other than the trees was 100% DIY, and these were the most satisfying: New Bathroom (only ~ $800!) New Kitchen (only ~$3000!) Leveled, graded and seeded ~10,000 sqft of lawn (~$500 ... http://dotnetworkaholic.com/non-tech-five-weeks-of-diy-comes-to-an-end/