Most people know about turning on compression in IIS. In recent versions of IIS it's been a simple case of ticking a checkbox to turn it on. I noticed the other day that svg files on one of my sites were not being compressed by default. If you...
Usually when I'm coding I'm using the latest and greatest tech but sometimes I have a need to use a specific version of a plugin or framework for backward compatability with a Visual Studio project. I ran into an issue the other day where I needed...
I've been toying with the idea of setting up a business for a few years. I was always put off by the complexities of setting up a business in Ireland - registering business names, doing my own accounts, submitting tax returns, vat payments, PRSI, pensions, start up costs....
I was recently working on updated an older asp.net 3.5 website to asp.net 4.0. Unfortunately we can't upgrade to 4.5 due to the risk of breaking other sites on the same server. Our reason for the upgrade was really to take advantage of...
I usually setup a new solution so that it contains multiple projects. There's a project for web files, data files, services, utilities and so on. When I downloaded and setup Entity Framework through Nuget I installed it into my Project.Web (where all my views/controllers are) and...
If you're using Entity Framework you might have noticed that your decimal values are defaulting to 2 decimal places in your database when it's being built. Sometimes you'll want to store more than 2 decimal places for things like GPS co-ordinates. Let's...
I really like using Outlook 2013 but there was one niggly little issue that was annoying me. Everytime I viewed an email and it displayed in the Viewing Pane the email was still marked as unread. To mark it as read I had to either right click on it to...
This morning I wasted about 4 hours on a bug that turned out to be a browser issue rather than a code one. When using Chrome I noticed that my datetime validation in MVC was failing. This validation was working perfectly in Internet Explorer and Firefox. So what was going...
At present there are a lot of Twitter Bootstrap nuget packages. Some of these include sample projects. Some of them are just the basic Bootstrap JavaScript and CSS files. Most of them are not setup to make it easy to write 'Bootstrap' HTML out of the box. I...