Author Archives: Peter van Ooijen

What we did on our holidays: a classic guitar, an iPad, Fender and iRig

This post is somewhere near the border of being off-topic but I consider it geeky enough myself to share it here. Like many others of my generation, living their high-school day in the end of the sixties/ beginning seventies, I’m … Continue reading 

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Telerik components for asp.net: learning to live with RADical family. (On using radScheduler in an MVC app)

Telerik is a Friend of codebetter and they deserve some more attention. In this post I will explore some of my recent experiences with their components for asp.net. There are two suites of them. On the MVC one I can … Continue reading 

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Models for a view (some objects are more equal than others)

How to implement the V and the C in MVC is no point of great discussion. When it comes to the M the variation increases. An ASP.NET MVC app has a Models folder; what you will find in there varies … Continue reading 

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(Yet another) nHibernate sessionmanager for ASP.NET (MVC)

Working with a nHibernate session in an asp.net web application is a subject to many a blog post, forum question or overflowing stack. Having already made a contibution before, I am nevertheless going to add another go at it combining … Continue reading 

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Book review: Learning Monotouch by Michael Bluestein

Monotouch is a powerful tool to create native iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod) apps written in C# backed by (a native version of) the .net framework. I have been using it for some time now to my great satisfaction. Learning Monotouch was a … Continue reading 

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