Adding a real-time "Who’s shopping?" widget to an ASP.NET Web App

By On August 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In our last ASP.NET post, The easiest way to add real-time functionality to an ASP.NET e-commerce application, I demonstrated how to add realtime stock level updates and notifications to an ASP.NET e-commerce application. In this post I’m going to show how to add a “Who’s shopping?” widget to the same application. The purpose [...]

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Looking for a C# (ASP.NET MVC), jQuery & Real-Time Web Contractor

By On March 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I'm very hopeful that I'll be looking to hire a contractor very soon and I thought I would post this to get a feeling for who is out there and interested. The skills I'm looking for are as follows:EssentialC#Advanced JavaScriptTD…

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Basic Authentication against the Superfeedr HTTP PubSubHubbub API using a .NET HttpWebRequest

By On July 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It would appear that setting the Credentials property of a HttpWebRequest still leads to authentication failure against the Superfeedr HTTP PubSubHubbub API. This might be because the way the HttpWebRequest works is that it first waits to be…

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How I approach problem solving in code?

By On October 23, 2009 · 5 Comments

Recently I was posed the following question:

Write a piece of code that prints all odd integer numbers between 1 and 99

This really isn’t a difficult question but it still requires some thought. When I’m posed with any question I like to break things down into their constituent parts.

Here’s the process I went [...]

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How to make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2

By On October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

To make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2 really isn’t that tough. I did have some problems with RC0 but I have no idea why. I just tried writing a little app to do this and it worked straight away.

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C# – Get Windows Temporary Directory

By On February 2, 2007 · 3 Comments

Once you know it you’ll probably never forget it…but wait, this is the second time I’ve googled for this. I’d best post how you “get the Windows temporary directory using C#“!

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