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Unit Testing

Selenium: Early Thoughts on Test Automation

My thoughts on a first dive into using Selenium for test automation.

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Knockout

3 Ways to Deal with SFOUC in KnockoutJS

How you can avoid sudden flashes of unstyled content in Knockout?

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CouchDb

Protecting your CouchDB Views

If you work with a SQL or other RDBMS database you most likely have your schema backed up somewhere under source control.  CouchDB is a slightly more complicated beast...

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ASP.NET

Excluding Current RouteData from UrlHelper

By default, the MVC `UrlHelper` will include all of the route values for the current route in it's calculations. What if you don't want it to?

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Build

Creating NuGet packages with Grunt

Using Grunt to automate creation of your nuget packages.

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Knockout

Handling "this" in ko.command

The vagaries of "this" in Knockout commands.

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ProxyApi

ProxyApi & Anti-Forgery Tokens

Prevent CSRF with an anti-forgery token in ProxyApi.

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Knockout

Editable Object Graphs in Knockout

Extending `ko.plus` cancellability to whole object graphs.

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ASP.NET

Exception Handling for Web API Controller Constructors

How to handle those scenarios that exception filters will miss.

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ASP.NET

Translating Date Formats in JavaScript

Urgh, dates.  It's always bloody dates.

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