ASP Experts

It's getting to the point where there are so many cool open source projects that I can't keep up. When you add in the currently battle royale of JavaScript projects that are basically just hip sounding words with ".js" added to the end, it's a little overwhelming. Seriously, just pick a word out of the dictionary at random and that's the name of an up and coming JavaScript library. JavaScript MVC Frameworks and Libraries This is an area that is very interesting but also very not-yet-baked. In the DOM manipulation and CSS selector space, jQuery won. That fight is over. The next big question is client side MVC frameworks. It seems everyone wants to make the next "Rails" framework on JavaScript and while there…(read more)

Ints are easy. Strings are mostly easy. Dates? A nightmare. They always will be. There's different calendars, different formats. Did you know it's 2004 in the Ethiopian Calendar? Yakatit 26, 2004, in fact. I spoke to a German friend once about how much 9/11 affected me and he said, "yes, November 9th was an amazing day in Germany, also." Dates are hard. If I take a simple model: public class Post { public int ID { get; set; } [StringLength(60)][Required] public string Title { get; set; } [StringLength(500)] [DataType(DataType.MultilineText)] [AllowHtml] public string Text { get; set; } public DateTime PublishedAt { get; set; } } And I make a quick ASP.NET Web API controller from VS11 Beta (snipped some stuff for simplicity…(read more)